Want a better restaurant table? Well, so does everyone else, buddy, you will have to pay for it | Arwa Mahdwai

A new app allows users to upgrade where they sit - for a price. It is just another case of inequality being rubbed in your face

It looks like the airline experience you know and hate may be coming to a restaurant near you soon. A new app called Tablz, which is being used by a handful of well-known eateries in the US, lets you pay extra to choose your table at a restaurant. Want a window seat? Well, everyone else wants it too, buddy, so you'd better pay up! How much depends on how many other people are interested: as with ride-sharing apps, prices on Tablz surge with demand.

The restaurant financial model is broken," the Tablz co-founder Frazer Nagy told Fast Company. You can upgrade your hotel room, your car rental ... seats on a plane. Every other industry has figured out pricing through upgrades, except restaurants."