Everyone’s doing Twitter these days, and I guess peer pressure finally got to me. However, I won’t be tweeting about my emotional state  – I’ll be tweeting about table availability.

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Dirt Candy only has nine, two-person tables and so most of our business is reservations. However, I do get the occasional cancellation or no-show and there are sometimes tables available for walk-ins. I don’t know about these tables until the day of, and so I thought I’d open our reservation books and let you see what’s available and when via Twitter. Most restaurants treat their reservation books like classified information for some reason but I want you to be able to figure out what tables are available if you get a last minute urge to swing by for dinner.

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So if you want to walk in, just go to the Dirt Candy Twitter feed (you don’t have to sign up with Twitter to view it). It’ll say things like, “Tables available at 7:30 and 10,” for that day. I’ll update it throughout the evening. Then give us a call and we’ll hold your table. This is not a perfect system, but it’s better than blind guessing and we’ll make adjustments as it goes along.

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For easy reference:

Dirt Candy Twitter Feed.

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If you have any better ideas on how this can work, or if there are any changes you want to suggest, drop me an email. I’m always happy to listen (info at dirtcandynyc dot com).

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