OpenTable API
OpenTable runs a partner-gated API program, not self-serve access. The Affiliate API surfaces restaurant data and booking deeplinks after a 3 to 4 week approval; Partner APIs sync reservations and guest profiles for approved POS and CRM vendors. The consumer API stays private.
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OpenTable scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. OpenTable runs a partner-gated API program, not self-serve access. The Affiliate API surfaces restaurant data and booking deeplinks after a 3 to 4 week approval; Partner APIs sync reservations and guest profiles for approved POS and CRM vendors. The consumer API stays private.
OpenTable has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
OpenTable is the largest restaurant reservation and table-management platform in North America.
POS / Hospitality, specifically restaurant reservations, table/floor management, guest CRM, waitlists, and pre-paid/experiential dining. Restaurants use OpenTable to: publish reservation availability across the OpenTable marketplace, Google, KAYAK, Booking.com and embedded site widgets; run table management, floor plans, waitlists and pacing; capture and segment guest profiles (tags, allergies, visit history, spend, VIP/blocked flags); enforce no-show and cancellation policies with stored payment cards; collect deposits and sell prepaid/ticketed experiences; sync to POS systems (Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Micros, Aloha, SpotOn, Squirrel) for check data and menu spend; pipe guest data into email/CRM/marketing tools; and surface analytics on covers, no-shows, cancellations, server performance and marketing ROI.
Very high. OpenTable seats roughly 1.9 billion diners per year across 65,000+ restaurants and remains the dominant US reservation network with ~46% market share (down from 51% in 2022, eroded by Resy, Toast Tables, SevenRooms and Yelp).
Reservations and covers, waitlist entries, ticketed/prepaid experience bookings, deposit and no-show charge transactions, stored payment cards, guest profiles with PII (name, email, phone, dietary tags, allergies, visit history, spend, VIP and blocked flags, loyalty/Dining Points balances), POS-integrated check and menu-item-level spend, floor plan and table inventory, server/host notes, marketing/email opt-ins and segmentation, cross-property travel linkage (Booking.com/Priceline/KAYAK).
Founded 1998, ~28 years old - among the oldest internet-era restaurant SaaS platforms still operating.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
OpenTable has partial MCP support. OpenTable publishes no official MCP server and offers no public API for one to wrap. An actively maintained community MCP server automates restaurant search and reservations, but it is unofficial and unsupported by the vendor.
Partially. MCP support for OpenTable exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.