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The capital of Silicon Valley is an approiate locate for the new E&O Trading Co. restaurant that opened last month in the remodeled Security Building.
The 175-seat restaurant that specializes in Asian cuisine is one of the first restaurants in the Bay Area-and the first in San Jose use a new online restaurant reservation system operated by OpenTable.com of San Francisco.
"I've always been very skeptical of new things that are supposed to make managing in restaurant easier," says Micah Broude, a 20year veteran of restaurant consulting and a partner in San Francisco-based E&O. "But this really is making things more efficient."
OpenTable.com launched last month. Here's how it works:
A consumer first logs onto the Web site, at www.opentable.com, and selects a restaurant in a region where to eat. A user can check what times are available at a single restaurant or search all the eateries in the database to see which...