First world problems. People who live in NYC should quit expecting government to solve every minor inconvenience for them and just go eat at another restaurant. Lots of good restaurants in NYC, and many don't even require reservations.
There are many things that are beyond supply and demand: love, sex, children. Why should restaurant reservations be any different?
Those are most definitely connected to supply and demand.
High status men get high status women, and vice versa. What do you think drives the price of a hoe? And how many children one has is often the result of willingness to pay for them.
> Why should restaurant reservations be any different?
And indeed, they aren't.
Because they are absolutely constrained by supply. Restaurants have limited space and supplies to cook.
What you are suggesting is prima facie ridiculous. Can you suggest how you could make restaurant supplies unlimited?
Why the insults over this?