This is the part that matters to a diner, and it is measurable rather than a matter of opinion. A rolling window means one new day appears at the far edge of the calendar every day, so there is something to catch every morning. A calendar release means the restaurant opens a whole month at once, on a fixed date, and nothing happens in between.
That is the whole story in one line: % of the Tock restaurants we measure release on a calendar date , against % on Resy. Tock grew up as a prepaid ticketing platform for tasting menus, and it still behaves like one. Resy grew up as a nightly booking system, and it still behaves like that. The most common Resy drop is midnight; the most common Tock drop is 10:00 AM.
If Tock venues move onto Resy's rolling model, these are the ones whose booking behaviour would visibly change, because they currently drop on a calendar date rather than daily. If you book any of them, this is the list to watch.
Nothing, yet. Reservations already booked through Tock are held by the restaurant, not by the platform, and a platform migration does not cancel them. The practical risk is not losing a booking; it is that a restaurant quietly changes when it opens its calendar, and you keep showing up at the old time.
That is the one thing we can watch for you. We re-measure every restaurant's release window continuously, so if a Tock venue switches from a monthly drop to a rolling one, the change shows up on the release table without anyone having to announce it.
These shapes come from restaurants where we have a confirmed release schedule, not from every restaurant on either platform, and a schedule we have not yet pinned is simply absent rather than assumed. We also measure two cities, so this is New York and San Francisco fine dining, not the whole of either platform. How we measure this .
// What the Resy/Tock merger means for the mechanics of booking. // // Every other article about this merger is business coverage: who bought // whom, for how much. The only thing we can add that nobody else can is // what the two platforms
Resy bought Tock. Here is what changes about actually booking a table.
American Express is folding Tock into Resy. The business coverage is everywhere; what nobody has published is how differently the two platforms release tables, measured across the restaurants we track every fifteen minutes.
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