Open Table is spying on you and ratting out your bad habits like being late, canceling to restaurants

What happens at the dining table no longer stays at the dining table.If the city’s servers suddenly always seem to know your go-to drink order, or how you always order extra croutons on your salad – you’re not going crazy.Reservation platform OpenTable is spying on its users and compiling personal information on guests to share with restaurants, both good and bad, from wine preferences to whether they cancel a same-day reservation.This allows eateries to highlight things to your preference, save preferred seating or — if your AI notes reveal poor etiquette — cancel your reservation altogether, sources tell The Post. “It’s not just spending habits or if they like Coca-Cola or bottled water.Now, we’re getting a taste of what a diner’s behavior at a restaurant is like: If they’re a late canceler, if they leave reviews a lot,” Shawn Hunter, a general manager for Sojourn Social on the Upper East Side told The Post of the feature he first noticed two weeks ago.Indeed, when people dine out using OpenTable to make the reservations, hosts can now see purple stars with AI notes in their profiles such as: “Frequently orders these drinks while dining out,” listing everything from wine to cocktails, plus how much a guest pays for them.Other notes get more specific, like “frequent reviewer;” “high spender;” “dines longer than the average guest;” and “late canceler,” noted Kat Menter, host at a Michelin-star restaurant in downtown Austin, who runs the food account EatingOutAustin.“It’s for all of the restaurants you’ve ever gone to on OpenTable.

They’ve saved what you ordered and how much you paid for it in your profile on the back end,” Kat revealed in a video on her page, noting her personal profile said: “Frequently orders juice.”“This is OpenTable being way too obvious with the fact that they are data brokers.I guess most of us didn’t assume what we ordered, what we paid, how long we’ve sat for, and other info wa...