Tock

Tock is a reservation, table, and event management system. Founded in 2014 by Brian Fitzpatrick and Chicago-based Alinea founders Nick Kokonas and Grant Achatz, Tock was acquired by Squarespace in 2021, which subsequently agreed to sell the company to American Express in 2024.

Website building platform Squarespace is selling Tock, its restaurant reservation service, to American Express in a deal worth $400 million — the exact figure that Squarespace paid for the service…

Squarespace sells restaurant reservation system Tock to American Express for $400M

Today Squarespace, a well-known software-and-hosting provider for SMB websites, released its S-1 filing. The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. It will…

Squarespace files for a direct listing on the NYSE

Tock, a six-year-old, Chicago-based culinary reservation service, has never had the kind of brand-recognition that other companies in the space have enjoyed, from publicly traded OpenTable to Resy, the New…

At Tock, this restaurant group owner and former trader is building a Spotify for reservations