Greed, expecting customers to pay to reserve Tock charging a 20% service fee for what amounts to an incredibly simple CRUD scheduling app is an outright scam forced upon users. Restaurants should heavily reconsider implementing this service as it deters potential customers from making reservations.

Elaborate Scam We tried three times to use tock. Each time they charged us money in advance only for the restaurants to have never heard of tock before, and leading to a huge billing issue each time. Until now, we haven't been able to use our money on tock, and there's no way to remove it. And all support does is give default answers. Fairly convinced their business model is to make the product almost impossible to use so that they people just never use the money they actually have. If you like someone, NEVER gift them a tock gift card - it's the worst thing you can do to someone

What a bunch of crooks What a bunch of crooks. They charged us $50 just to make a reservation at a NYC restaurant.

Tock is holding my money hostage Tock doesn’t bother to inform buyers that their gift cards can’t be used to, you know, actually purchase food like you’d think they could. My employer purchased a $200 Tock gift card on my behalf as a gift, and I decided to use the balance to take my parents, husband, and mother in law to a restaurant for lunch… intending to use my gift card to cover the bill. Lo and behold, I found out AFTER we’d ordered that exactly $0 of my Tock gift card balance could be applied to my current balance. I was mortified. My family had driven more than an hour from their respective locations to meet me and my husband at the restaurant, only for my method of payment to not work as expected. This was a $120 lunch between the four of us, so not exactly small fries, but I had expected my $200 gift card balance to be more than enough to cover the bill. Tock’s customer service was worse than useless in resolving the issue — the entire burden fell on the staff of the restaurant to deduct our $120 bill from my gift card balance. I literally have no idea how they did it, but I was so grateful that they stepped up to fix Tock’s mistake. Now Tock customer service is giving me the runaround about refunding the remaining $80 on my gift card balance. I DO NOT WANT TO WASTE MY TIME ON TOCK AFTER MY AWFUL EXPERIENCE WITH THE PLATFORM. I literally just want a refund so I can move on with my life, but Tock insists that I can use the gift card balance “to reserve experiences” at restaurants, when that’s the last thing I want to use my gift balance for. Tock marketed these gift cards in a misleading manner. I was fully under the impression that I would be able to use my balance to pay the tab of any restaurant under the Tock banner, but Tock is a woefully tech-deficient company, so they can’t even manage that. Now they are holding my money hostage — USE TOCK OR EXPLORETOCK AT YOUR OWN RISK!

It's a scam. Don't use unless you like giving donations to them. This is a company that accepts $$ for "gift certificates" and then you discover they have no restaurants that accept the credit. Haha. Jokes on you! I tried to use the credits twice with a restaurant they list. There's no phone number to discuss with them, and they refuse to answer emails asking the people who gifted you to be refunded. It's a scam.