Consumer, Marketplace

LaFourchette

Leading European online restaurant reservation platform, TheFork (La Fourchette) was acquired in 2014 for 140 million$ by TripAdvisor.

2007 – France 🇫🇷 Spain 🇪🇸 & Switzerland 🇨🇭

Leading European online restaurant reservation platform in Europe, Australia, and Latin America, TheFork (La Fourchette), was acquired in 2014 for 140 million$ by TripAdvisor. It has a network of more than 65,000 restaurants worldwide and more than 27 million monthly visits.

The platform operates as “LaFourchette”​ in France and Switzerland, as “ElTenedor”​ in Spain, as “TheFork”​ in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. It also operates in English as “TheFork.com“,

TheFork connects restaurants and diners. Through TheFork (website and application), as well as through TripAdvisor, users can easily select a restaurant according to preference criteria (such as the localization, type of cuisine, restaurant type and average price), consult user reviews, check real-time availability and instantly book online.

From the restaurants’ side, TheFork provides them with a software solution, TheFork Manager, that enables restaurants to optimize reservations management, streamline operations and ultimately improve service and revenues, following Yield Management principles of price variability depending on time, practices which are used successfully in the travel and hotel industries.

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LaFourchette team
Founders
Bertrand Jelensperger
Patrick Dalsace
Denis Fayolle
Consumer Marketplace

What we say

Marc Fournier

Marc Fournier

Lafourchette is one the most successful apps launched in the last years.  Helping consumers find, discover reserve restaurants came to us as a passion we wanted to share.