LinkandBook is a restaurant platform with a built-in reservations engine — same floor map, parties, deposits, no-show flags as OpenTable — but you keep the customer relationship, no per-cover fee, and you also get POS, KDS and an AI voice phone agent in the same subscription.
OpenTable charges roughly $1 per cover for network bookings plus a monthly subscription. TheFork takes €2 per cover in Europe. Both keep the customer relationship (the diner sees their brand). LinkandBook is flat per location with reservations included; bookings come through your own brand and you keep the diner's email and history. Plus POS, KDS, AI voice phone agent and country-specific e-invoicing — everything OpenTable is just one piece of.
A 100-cover service via OpenTable costs ~$100 in fees. Over a year that's tens of thousands. LinkandBook is the same flat fee whether you book 10 or 10,000 covers.
Your customer's email, history and review live on OpenTable's brand. Switch tools and you start over. With LinkandBook, your customer database is yours.
OpenTable doesn't run your POS, kitchen display, delivery or e-invoicing. You still need a separate POS — and a separate phone-answering process. LinkandBook is one platform.
Tourists don't always speak the local language. LinkandBook's AI voice agent answers in 30+ languages and books straight into the same reservations table.
| Capability | LinkandBook | OpenTable | TheFork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat per location | Sub + ~$1/cover network | Sub + ~€2/cover |
| Customer relationship | Yours (your brand) | Theirs (OpenTable brand) | Theirs (TheFork brand) |
| Floor map & reservations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deposits + no-show fees | ✓ Configurable | ✓ | ✓ |
| Touch POS | ✓ Same platform | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kitchen Display (KDS) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Online ordering / QR menu | ✓ 4 layouts | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multilingual AI voice phone agent | ✓ 30+ languages | ✗ | ✗ |
| Country-specific e-invoicing | ✓ (Greek myDATA, more) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Marketplace exposure | B2B partner only | Consumer marketplace | Consumer marketplace |
| Direct customer database export | ✓ Full CSV/JSON | Limited | Limited |
Comparison reflects public information as of April 2026. OpenTable and TheFork pricing varies by region.
Both OpenTable and TheFork let you export your guest list and upcoming reservations as CSV. We import them.
Add tables, parties, deposit rules, no-show policy. The reservation engine is similar enough that staff transfer easily.
Replace the OpenTable button on your website / Instagram with your LinkandBook booking link. Run both for a week to catch in-flight bookings.
OpenTable reviews stay on OpenTable — they belong to that platform. We recommend redirecting your top regulars to leave a Google Maps review (which you control), then switching focus to your own customer database.
For tourists who specifically search OpenTable, you may lose some discovery traffic — that's the trade-off. Most restaurants find that direct + Google Maps + Instagram drive most bookings anyway, and the per-cover savings outweigh the discovery hit.
Yes — a parallel run for 1–2 weeks is recommended. Existing OpenTable bookings flow into LinkandBook via a small calendar sync (or you accept them on OpenTable and manually mirror).
Yes. Configure deposit per service or party size, no-show fee policy, and the platform auto-charges the card on cancellation inside the window. Same protection as OpenTable's GuestCenter.
Yes. The reservations dashboard lives in the same admin as the POS. Floor map + party list + waitlist all on one screen, viewable from any tablet at the host stand.
Yes — free to start, no credit card required.