{"id":519575,"date":"2026-01-16T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:58:15","slug":"how-philadelphia-is-fighting-back-against-reservation-scalpers-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519575\/","title":{"rendered":"How Philadelphia is fighting back against reservation scalpers \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unfortunate trend has hit the Philadelphia restaurant scene as people trying to book hard-to-get reservations are seeing them being sold online for a profit. <\/p>\n

Those cashing in on those coveted tables are called reservation scalpers. <\/p>\n

One Philadelphia resident, Annabell Machado told NBC10 that she has been trying for more than a year to get a reservation at Philly’s popular Cambodian restaurant, Mawn. <\/p>\n

“I would never pay a third party to get a reservation because even if the restaurant is amazing, they’re not benefiting,” Machado said. “It’s evil. Like, I live right down the street and I have not been able to just get dinner here.”<\/p>\n

Recently though, Mawn was one of the spots targeted by a restaurant scalper who allegedly made multiple reservations and then tried to sell them on social media. <\/p>\n

As Philadelphia’s food scene gains national attention with three restaurants earning Michelin Stars<\/a> and multiple James Beard Awards<\/a>, it was only a matter of time before reservation scalpers followed. <\/p>\n

Now, Philadelphia City Council is taking steps to protect the industry and the consumer by passing a law banning third party websites<\/a> from selling reservations without the restaurant’s consent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unfortunate trend has hit the Philadelphia restaurant scene as people trying to book hard-to-get reservations are seeing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-519575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115903012153825966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}