Inside Scoop SF has official responses from San Francisco restaurant State Bird Provisions and Urbanspoon regarding the news that computer nerd Diogo Mónica and others developed reservation bots to secure tables and game the system. Urbanspoon says its data doesn't "support the findings," while State Bird's chef/owner Stuart Brioza says, "It's pretty amusing." [ISSF]
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