TheFork Acquires Bookatable December 3, 2019
On December 3, 2019, TheFork announced the acquisition of Bookatable.
What Was Announced
- Michelin agreed to sell its restaurant booking platform Bookatable to TheFork; terms were not disclosed.
- The deal took TheFork into the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland and Norway and added about 14,000 bookable restaurants to its roughly 67,000.
Key Facts
- Kind
- Acquisition
- Announced
- December 3, 2019
- Amount
- Not stated in the sources
- Companies
- TheFork, Bookatable
The Companies Involved
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Reservation software
TheFork
European online restaurant reservation and restaurant management platform (originally lafourchette, also eltenedor), working with more than 50,000 restaurants in 11 European countries; based in Paris.
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Bookatable
Restaurant booking platform owned by Michelin with about 14,000 bookable restaurants, active in the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland and Norway; sold to TheFork in 2019.
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