update - after doing some research online, I found I was able to just reply to the text message with “yes” and it confirmed the reservation.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I would cancel and tell the restaurant why.

    Businesses need to know why they lose customers, because if enough of them report the same reason, they might do something about it.

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        You call the restaurant and explain the reason, they would be super happy to mark as cancelled on Yelp, but still keep booked on their system: Yelp is not giving this service for free, but they charge a lot of money on each single reservation.

        And hopefully realize to stop offering the service at all

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Here are the trackers contained in Yelp’s app according to Exodus:

    • Adjust (analytics)
    • Braze (formerly Appboy) (analytics advertisement location)
    • Brightcove
    • Bugsnag (crash reporting)
    • ComScore (analytics advertisement)
    • Facebook Analytics (analytics)
    • Facebook Login (identification)
    • Google AdMob (advertisement)
    • Google Firebase Analytics (analytics)
    • Snowplow (analytics)

    That’s a lot. They make money off of people having their app running on their phone. That’s why they push their app.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    My goodness, if a restaurant needed me to have a Yelp app to confirm my reservation I wouldn’t be eating at that restaurant.