An American Restaurant Group Selects OpenTable.com as Online Reservation Provider; Leader in Online Reservations Signs Larry Forgione's New York-based Restaurant Group.

Business Editors/Food Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000

OpenTable.com, the leading provider of online restaurant reservations and Internet-connected restaurant management tools, today announced that Larry Forgione's An American Restaurant Group (AARG) has selected OpenTable.com to provide online reservation functionality at the group's four popular New York properties. In the coming weeks; An American Place, The Beekman 1766 Tavern, Rosehill, and The Coach House will join the hundreds of restaurants around the country accepting online reservations at www.opentable.com.

&uot;We are very excited about what the OpenTable.com system will bring to our restaurants,&uot; said Larry Forgione, proprietor and head chef at the AARG restaurants, and winner of numerous culinary distinctions including the James Beard Foundation and the Culinary Institute of America Chef of the Year awards. &uot;Their system will not only enable us to accept reservations via the Internet, it will help us remember who are customers are. Now we can greet each one of them with the same warm welcome we give to our regulars, and even recall things like dining preferences, food allergies and birthdays. In the hospitality industry, customer service and satisfaction are among the most important things we can offer our guests, and OpenTable.com will help us make each of our repeat customers feel special.&uot;

&uot;We looked at a number of online reservation providers, and OpenTable.com proved to have the best offering,&uot; said Greg Dodge, director of operations at AARG. &uot;OpenTable.com has the best technology available in this category, and a team that exhibits a clear, genuine commitment to the restaurant industry. Their customer service is among the best I've encountered, and that's an important part of what it takes to be successful with restaurateurs. We're pleased to become a part of their network.&uot;

Chuck Templeton, OpenTable.com founder and CEO, said; &uot;We are delighted to have An American Restaurant Group join our network. This partnership represents a milestone in our building a comprehensive dining resource that offers consumers free, 24-hour access to reservations at great restaurants like An American Place, Rosehill, The Beekman 1776 Tavern and The Coach House. We are looking forward to working with the AARG restaurants to ensure that OpenTable.com helps make their reservation and customer management systems as efficient as they can be.&uot;

About OpenTable.com

OpenTable.com, Inc. is building a network of the world's finest restaurants and their patrons. The company's Internet-connected electronic reservation book (ERB) harnesses the power of the Internet for restaurants --enabling enhanced customer service and revolutionary marketing capabilities -- while giving diners free online access to restaurant information and available reservations twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Founded in 1998 by Chuck Templeton, OpenTable.com is backed by leading Venture Capital Firms including Impact Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital and Prescient Capital. The company has partnered with restaurants from An American Restaurant Group, Ark Restaurants Corp., California Cafe Restaurant Corp., the Lark Creek Group, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc., Real Restaurant Group, Restaurants Unlimited and Union Square Hospitality Group. OpenTable.com is based in San Francisco, California, and has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. For more information about OpenTable.com or its online restaurant reservation network visit www.opentable.com or call 877.327.9328.