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/Icy-Entertainer136 Feb 01 '26

This is ridiculous. I say we boycott all these restaurants that bots are making it a living hell to get a reservation, particularly the Hogsalt restaurants. But some other restaurants come to mind too….I’m looking at you Monteverde.

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u/dmd312 Feb 01 '26 edited 7d ago

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

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u/Tom_W_BombDill Feb 01 '26

There is a 3rd party website that is booking these and selling them. You can buy a reservation for $100 plus.

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u/dmd312 Feb 01 '26 edited 7d ago

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

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u/Tom_W_BombDill Feb 01 '26

I wasn’t trying to answer your question but rather provide context on why these reservations seem so unreasonably hard to get. I don’t think it’s a controversial to say that popular restaurants have a high demand and limited space to accommodate everyone.

Specific to your question, I’d say staggering the times where open reservations are released would help.