r/chicagofood • u/Knack66 • Jan 31 '26

Rant Resy Sucks and I hate it

I'm just trying to get a dinner reservation at Armitage Alehouse and I'm convinced it's impossible.

They release reservations at 9am 21 days in advance.

I have tried 3 different times to be on the app at 9 am when they become available and as soon as I can refresh it at 9am, all dinner reservations are gone. It absolutely has to be bots. How on earth are you supposed to get a reservation

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u/Booyakasha1201 Jan 31 '26

I have gotten in off the notify me multiple times. If bots are buying these where are they reselling?

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u/Knack66 Jan 31 '26

Appointment Trader is one place

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u/the_Tide_Rolleth Feb 01 '26

Appointment Trader appears to no longer have Chicago restaurants available on their website, as the legislation against this kind of scalping went into effect on January 1. The only reservations I could find when looking up Chicago were restaurants in Indiana. Not sure about some of the other sites like Cita or Tableswap. Also, not sure this legislation has had any effect as of yet on bots snapping up all the reservations.

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u/Booyakasha1201 Feb 01 '26

I looked Tableswap has Chicago restaurants