Wait Less, Eat More
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Have you ever found yourself out on a Friday night, hungry and without a reservation, only to find that all the nearby restaurants seem to have hour-long waits?
This week, Invoke released a new app with The Onion’s The A.V. Club to solve just this problem: WaitList is an iPhone app that tells you just how long you’ll have to wait at nearby restaurants, bars, and clubs.
Now, you can bypass restaurants’ long lines and get to your meal faster! Through the app, users can submit wait time tips, which are also published on the WaitList’s twitter, @waitlist. In addition to viewing wait times, you can also share notes on what to eat or drink at different venues. The app uses foursquare’s API to help you find places close to you or search for your destination.
Inspiration for the app came after the team at The A.V. Club, an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion, was sick and tired of waiting for over an hour at their favorite gourmet hot dog joint in Chicago. They developed a Chicago tip line and Twitter feed to outsmart wait lines all over the city, and a year later, worked with Invoke to develop this first nationwide WaitList app. Read more on Mashable and Lifehacker.
Check it out on iTunes for yourself, and never worry about standing hungry in the entrances of restaurants ever again!
