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One of the reasons that app has become so popular is its promise that the customer will ‘never pay full price’. That’s right, everyday customers will be able to book a table with up to 50% discount -- and at the very least a 10% discount. Guaranteed.Customers love it. After all, who doesn’t love discounts? But if you dig a little deeper, the main purpose is not pleasing the customers; it’s managing and distributing demand. Restaurants sell perishable goods. If a seat is left empty, it can’t be stored and sold later -- it’s gone forever, and the fixed costs remain whether it’s sold or not. Therefore, it’s in the interest of restaurants to charge lower prices at off-peak hours, and higher prices during peak-hours.  So why use a discount? It sort of erodes the purpose of a discount if a discount is *always* offered. Why not lower prices 10% (the minimum discount applied)? This has to do with the ‘loss aversion’ effect. Consumers react much more strongly to a 10% price increase than they do to *not getting* a 10% discount. Let me illustrate: **Customer A** goes to a restaurant at 19:00 -- right in the middle of the peak hours. He’s told that he can get a table, but all items on the menu will cost him 20% more because of the time he decided to dine there. Customer A would have bought a steak, chips and sauce for $30.00, which now will cost him $36 instead. **Customer B** goes to the same restaurant at 19:00, and gets a different menu than **Customer A**. Here, steak, chips and sauce will set him back $40 -- well, not quite; he shouldn’t forget that he’ll get a *10% discount*. What a bargain, huh? Essentially, **Customer A** and **Customer B** end up paying the same price for the meal; $36. But research repeatedly shows that **Customer A** will perceive the $36 to be a worse deal because it is presented as a price increase, i.e. a *loss* that he must incur to dine at 19:00. On the other hand, **Customer B** is essentially losing as well. But in his case, the loss is not presented as such; it’s presented as a *relatively smaller gain*, i.e. the discount is *smaller* (but still there!) because of the time he wishes to dine. Loss aversion theory states that a person who loses $10 will lose more utility than a person who gets $10 will gain. This is an important behavioural concept for most businesses, so try and keep this in mind next time you look at your pricing! 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