OpenTable is owned by Booking Holdings (the United States, NASDAQ: BKNG), which acquired the brand on 24 July 2014 for $2.6 billion.[1][2] OpenTable was founded in 1998 in San Francisco, California and was independent until 2014.
OpenTable handles restaurant reservations and was founded in 1998, building its position by supplying restaurants with the booking terminals that fed its network. Priceline acquired it in 2014 for about $2.6 billion, an unusual purchase for a company otherwise focused on travel.
What Booking Holdings's annual report says about OpenTable
Sentences about OpenTable from Booking Holdings's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Advertising and other revenues are derived primarily from (a) revenues earned by KAYAK for sending referrals to partners and for advertising placements, (b) revenues earned by OpenTable for its restaurant reservation services and subscription fees for restaurant management services, and (c) revenues earned by our other brands for advertising placements on their platforms.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, OpenTable provides online restaurant reservation services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants, primarily in the United States.
A substantial portion of our intangible assets and goodwill as of December 31, 2025 relates to the acquisitions of OpenTable and Getaroom.
How often Booking Holdings names OpenTable in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Booking Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1997. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: BKNG.
Booking Holdings was called Priceline until 2018, when it renamed itself after the Dutch business it had bought for $133 million in 2005 and which had grown far larger than its American parent. It is the largest online travel company in the world, and its brands are the main alternative to Expedia's.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States.
492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; OpenTable is not one of them.
Priceline acquired OpenTable for $103 per share, about $2.6 billion, moving into restaurant reservations. It was an unusual purchase for a travel group, and the company later wrote down a substantial part of its value.
The parent company of OpenTable is Booking Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is OpenTable American?
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Yes. OpenTable originated in the United States in 1998 and its owner, Booking Holdings, is also headquartered in the United States.
When did Booking Holdings buy OpenTable?
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Booking Holdings completed its acquisition of OpenTable on 24 July 2014, after announcing the deal on 13 June 2014. The deal was valued at $2.6 billion (enterprise value).
Who owned OpenTable before Booking Holdings?
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OpenTable was an independent company from its founding in 1998 in San Francisco, California until Booking Holdings acquired it in 2014.
Is OpenTable still owned by Booking Holdings?
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Yes. As of 29 October 2026, OpenTable is still owned by Booking Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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