OpenTable provides a brand new ‘verified’ tag for eating places to examine vaccine standing

OpenTable is adding a new feature that can let eating places tag diners as “verified” for assembly entry necessities. The preliminary — and apparent — use of the verification characteristic might be for eating places to log company who’re vaccinated for COVID-19, however the characteristic is also used to do issues like affirm a diner is of authorized consuming age or different necessities for entry.

The characteristic ought to be rolling out to eating places later this month, and it goals to assist make it simpler for restaurant house owners to raised serve repeat clients, particularly with cities like New York City starting to roll out vaccination requirements for eating places because the delta variant continues to rise.

The verification tag solely applies to a single restaurant or restaurant group and doesn’t really log any vaccination information or private data. Actually checking the vaccine standing of a diner will fall to the restaurant, in keeping with no matter insurance policies a location has for vaccine necessities.

But in principle, the OpenTable system would permit for a diner to indicate proof of vaccination on their first go to, after which make future reservations simpler. Since OpenTable isn’t extending the “verified” standing between totally different eating places, you’ll nonetheless have to satisfy that verification standing at every new place you go (except they’re operated by the identical group), nevertheless it nonetheless may very well be a handy characteristic for patrons who frequent the identical locations usually.