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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The next time you book a restaurant reservation, you also may have to pay a deposit.</li><li>Certain restaurants are requiring customers to pay an up-front fee to crack down on no-shows.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/businesses-ask-for-tips-pay-workers-less-recession-fears-2023-7">Tipping culture</a> isn't the only aspect of dining out that's changing.More restaurants are now asking for cash deposits in order to reserve tables, <a href="https://ny.eater.com/2023/8/3/23817542/reservation-fees-deposits-resy-opentable-nyc?_hsmi=269242810&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9pTIWtnJSa3AefHQpvMtGg2cVgCJwLJUCpj0SXyq69C8vdyvRwyG_3RP74MgTVk_pe_2eAVfnWUvcXJI6C9PaX00j5tQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eater reported</a>. The preemptive payments are meant to prevent people from not showing up to their reservations, and they differ from no-show fees, which are penalties that many restaurants enforce on diners after they have ghosted their reservations.No-shows for restaurant reservations aren't new. In 2021, online reservation service OpenTable <a href="https://www.opentable.com/blog/no-show-numbers/">found</a> 28% of Americans said they'd ghosted a restaurant reservation in the last year.In 2022, the company launched a deposits feature on its reservation platform that allows restaurants to require payments with each booking. Restaurants on the platform choose whether to enforce the deposit on all reservations or on specific occasions, such as bookings for big parties or during peak hours a spokesperson for OpenTable said in an email to Insider. Reservation deposits vary in price and application, and the restaurants Insider spoke with said they either refund the upfront payment or deduct it from the final bill if the diner shows. Some eateries charge a flat deposit on a reservation, while others require money for each reserved seat.JC Myska, general manager at Kintsugi Omakase in Manhattan, said his luxury restaurant's $35-per-person reservation deposit is vital for the eatery, which has only 10 seats. Pearl Street Caviar, an importer and distributor of caviar in Brooklyn, New York, has a cafe that began implementing a blanket $10 deposit for reservations this spring to battle patrons ghosting reservations. Founder Craig Page said that the rate of no-shows has dropped significantly since the rollout of the charge, which gets deducted from the final bill."We have very few seats, and we plan and staff significantly around reservations," Page said. "So when people don't show up, it's not a disaster, it's just a bummer."For other restaurants, no-shows can be killer. <a href="https://www.opentable.com/blog/no-show-numbers/">The 2021 OpenTable analysis</a> looked at Blackfish, a 40-seat restaurant in Philadelphia, and found that if just six people did not show up, it would lose 5% of its income — or a typical restaurant's profit margin."Restaurants operate on razor thin profit margins and simply can't afford last-minute cancellations and no-shows," the OpenTable spokesperson said.In 2020, acclaimed chefs called out <a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-kerridge-criticizes-people-dont-show-up-for-dinner-reservations-2020-7">diners who did not show up for reservations</a>, with Michelin-star chef Tom Kerridge saying such customers endangered jobs.While Page said Pearl Street Caviar's customers aren't shocked by the charge and that any confusion is usually cleared up, some diners have voiced their displeasure about reservation deposits online.A Yelp user <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/monkey-bar-new-york-4?osq=monkey+bar&amp;sort_by=date_desc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left a positive review</a> for the New York City restaurant Monkey Bar, but said her "only complaint" was the "non-refundable fee to make the reservation on resy."Monkey Bar did not respond to Insider's request for comment, but the restaurant's website says there is a $2.50 fee charged per person for reservations made online.In July, one <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodNYC/comments/154f6d0/thoughts_on_monkey_bar_charging_for_reservations/">Reddit user</a> fretted over "the principle of a nonrefundable deposit for making a reservation online.""This alone probably wouldn't discourage me from booking a table at a place I really want to try, but it could definitely push me towards other options if I'm on the fence," they wrote.

Restaurants are charging nonrefundable reservation deposits to combat no-shows, after nearly 30% of diners say they've ghosted

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Michelin-starred <keyword id="3699" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chef">chef</keyword> Tom Kerridge has publicly criticized 27 diners he said failed to show up to his London <keyword id="6371025" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="restaurant">restaurant</keyword> on Saturday night.</li><li>Writing on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCiWoCbD_Wx">Instagram</a>, he called their behavior "disgraceful, shortsighted and down right unhelpful."</li><li>It's particularly frustrating for <keyword id="30173" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="chefs">chefs</keyword> right now, as the restaurant industry attempts to get back on its feet following coronavirus lockdowns.</li><li>Other renowned chefs such as Clare Smyth and Simon Rimmer shared Kerridge's frustrations in the comments.</li><li>Representatives for Kerridge did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment.</li></ul>A Michelin-starred chef has written <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCiWoCbD_Wx">a passionate post</a> about why people who fail to show up for their restaurant reservations are "the worst kind" of diners, particularly right now, as the hospitality industry struggles to return to life following coronavirus lockdowns.Kerridge wrote on Instagram that 27 people who had booked tables at Kerridge's Bar &amp; Grill in London, where he is the head chef, didn't turn up Saturday night.He called that kind of behavior "disgraceful," adding that it put people's jobs at risk."This industry, like many others is on the verge of collapse," Kerridge wrote."Your behaviour is disgraceful, shortsighted and down right unhelpful..... all of you 'no shows' in all <keyword id="34615" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="restaurants">restaurants</keyword> up and down the country are adding to the issues already being faced."YOU are putting people's jobs more at risk..... we put staff levels to the number of covers booked and when you fail to turn up, it now costs us, which in turn will force very uncomfortable and hard decisions about staffing levels."You are the worst kind of guest, and that is 'selfish.' I hope you have a good look at yourselves."The three-Michelin-starred chef <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chefclaresmyth/">Clare Smyth</a> was one of many people expressing their sympathies and frustrations in the comments."Well said Tom," she wrote. "We need to educate people now more than ever. Our industry needs to come into line with others."Staff don't work for free because the guests don't turn up. Ingredients are prepared and wasted. It is incredibly disrespectful."The celebrity chef <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rimmersimon/">Simon Rimmer</a> added: "This is disgraceful. The biggest insult to our industry."The sentiment is one also held by the Michelin-starred chef brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin, who previously told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-jeff-galvin-michelin-starred-brothers-worst-thing-diners-do-no-show-2019-2?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Insider's Alison Millington</a> that customers booking tables and not showing up was their biggest "bugbear.""Five percent of customers are no-show," Chris Galvin said, adding that it cost the restaurant a quarter of a million pounds a year, or more than $300,000, because "we could have sold the table two, three, four times over.""It's amazing when you explain to people, they probably think we have two to three tables not show up, it's more like two to three tables per service," he said."It's a real shame."Representatives for Kerridge did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-jeff-galvin-michelin-starred-brothers-worst-thing-diners-do-no-show-2019-2?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">The world's only Michelin-starred brothers tell us why not showing up to a reservation is the worst thing a diner can do</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/difference-between-one-two-and-three-michelin-stars-2018-11?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This is the difference between one, two, and three Michelin-starred restaurants</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/travel-will-be-more-luxurious-post-coronavirus-hotel-experts-predict-2020-7">Travel will become more luxurious after the coronavirus pandemic, hotel and aviation experts predict</a></li></ul>

A Michelin-starred chef wrote a passionate rant calling diners who fail to show up for reservations 'the worst kind of guest'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="44360" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="JK-Rowling">JK Rowling</keyword> was trending on Twitter on Monday under the hashtag #RIPJKRowling.</li><li>The author is not dead, but fans are angry after it emerged her latest book features a male serial killer who wears a dress to dupe and murder his female victims. </li><li>People are connecting this storyline to Rowling's history of controversial statements about <keyword id="6358953" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Transgender">transgender</keyword> people.</li></ul>The children's author JK Rowling is being "canceled" on Twitter after it emerged her latest book featured a male killer who wears dresses as he kills his female victims.It follows a string of comments Rowling has made about transgender people, making fun of gender-inclusive terms, and calling for an end to gender-affirming care for young trans people. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/troubled-blood-robert-galbraith-review-jk-rowling-fails-strike/">Jake Kerridge of The Telegraph wrote</a> the novel's "moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress," and features a male serial killer who wears a dress to kill his cisgender female victims.<a href="https://www.insider.com/myths-about-trans-people-from-tv-film-and-the-truth-2020-7">As explored in the Netflix documentary "Disclosure,"</a> the trope of a "male killer in a dress" implies transgender women are violent murderers and psychopaths. It has been used in films like "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho." Twitter users are voicing their discontent once again using the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ripjkrowling&amp;src=recent_search_clicklick">#RIPJKRowling. </a><h2>Twitter users compared Rowling to <keyword id="6357995" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Harry-Potter">Harry Potter</keyword> villains</h2>Read More: <a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowlings-book-features-a-cross-dressing-male-serial-killer-2020-9">JK Rowling's new book features a psychotic male killer who wears dresses to dupe his female victims</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/cynthia-nixon-said-jk-rowling-gender-essay-hurt-trans-son-2020-9">Cynthia Nixon said JK Rowling's comments about gender were 'really painful' for her trans son</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-what-is-a-terf-trans-exclusionary-radical-feminist-2020-6">J.K. Rowling wrote a controversial statement about transgender people in response to being called a 'TERF.' Here's what that means.</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowlings-transphobia-devastated-trans-harry-potter-fans-2020-6">Trans 'Harry Potter' fans say they are devastated by JK Rowling's transphobia — but some say it's a distraction from the violence against trans Black people</a>

Why 'RIP JK Rowling' is trending, even though the author is still alive

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">BBC/Love Productions"Bake Off Creme de la Creme"</div></div></div>"The Great British Bake Off" brand could yet survive on the BBC.<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-great-british-bake-off-is-likely-to-move-to-itv-2016-9" target="_blank">A week after the biggest show on British TV moved to Channel 4</a>, sources told Business Insider that the BBC may yet hang on to spin-off programme "Bake Off: Crème de la Crème.""Crème de la Crème" is also made by "The Great British Bake Off" production company Love Productions, but shifts the focus from amateur bakers to professional ones.BBC2 commissioned the first series last year in a deal with Love that was distinct from the main show on BBC1. As a result, it was not included in <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-great-british-bake-off-is-likely-to-move-to-itv-2016-9">Channel 4's £75 million ($98 million) swoop for "The Great British Bake Off" last week.</a>The BBC is now in talks with Love about "Crème de la Crème" returning for a second series on BBC2 in 2017.A BBC spokeswoman said: "We make a number of different programmes with Love, 'Crème' is a different deal and we're not commenting on those individual deals or programmes."TV sources said Love is in the advanced stages of planning season two and it began putting together a production team last month. Decisions have also been made about who will star in the show, with <a href="https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/368226/no-second-series-of-bake-off-creme-de-la-creme-for-claire-clark" target="_blank">The Caterer reporting that pastry chef Claire Clark has been dropped as a judge.</a>"The next series will only require two judges, as the tasks will be simplified," Clark said. "I wish all the competitors best of luck and, of course, my fellow judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin a great second show."Hosted by Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, "Crème de la Crème" is nowhere near as big as "The Great British Bake Off," but it still performed very well for BBC2. It averaged 3.8 million viewers from April to May. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fix-slow-iphone-reset-ram-2016-9">This incredibly simple trick fixes your iPhone if it's acting slow - and it takes less than 30 seconds</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="4yY3hpMTE67RikNrGxaXVWTQuxXqC79X" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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