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>Browser ad blocker can't protect you from the actions of restaurant staff

Then use a restaurant details blocker? Celebrities have been doing this since the beginning of time. Use an alias. The notion that physical places of business are collecting our data for their own purpose is not really a new one.

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Yeah that's not actually true. Celebrities call and give their real names because being famous means there's always a table available even if when there isn't one for regular people. Source: In a past life I worked at a destination restaurant in the front of the house.

Do non-celebrities try to game this?

I don't recall that ever happening. I suppose you could although I think most people would be too embarrassed to do so. Seems like a Seinfeld kind of a situation(John Voight's car.)

Yes I know a guy who looks like a C-list celebrity, he has called ahead and gets a table with bottle service. A little bit of research would show the real celebrity is in another city at the moment but they never do that.

> Use an alias.

Yes, this is what I was calling out in my original comment. We need to remember to treat physical establishments as attackers.

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