Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality · 2026-07-30 · 42 min
On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Mena Barakat and Sarah Goldring, co-founders of ResX, a New York-based reservation exchange platform that’s changing the way people access some of the hardest-to-book restaurants. What began as an Instagram page where two friends shared reservations they could no longer use has grown into a thriving technology platform with more than 150,000 users - all without raising venture capital. In this episode, Mena and Sarah share the unlikely origin story behind ResX, why they deliberately spent years doing everything manually before building an app, and how staying incredibly close to their customers helped them create a product people genuinely wanted. They also discuss the changing economics of restaurant reservations, the influence of social media on dining culture, and why they're on a mission to make dinner feel spontaneous again. This episode is
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