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This new interesting project makes the struggle of booking tables at popular restaurants into a fun game
Updated On: 26 April, 2026 09:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Junisha Dama
An art collective’s project, Reservation Gym, turns the struggle of booking a table at India’s hottest restaurants into a hilarious gamified experience

Reservation Gym is a website where you practise booking a table. Pick your restaurant, choose your date, add your details, and race against time. At the end, you receive a score that tells you your chances of actually getting in. Pic/iStock
If you have scrambled to make a reservation at Papa’s, Paradox, Masque or any of the other tough spots in Mumbai or elsewhere. You are exactly who Yuck Collective had in mind. The collective is a trio of comics Hari Krishna, Neelaksh Mathur, and Vijeth VS. “We like to define ourselves as an art collective. The purpose of Yuck Collective is for us to express comedy as a genre through different formats,” says Mathur.
Their latest project is Reservation Gym, which has garnered many views on social media but hasn’t gone viral yet, in their words. But it is part social commentary, part coping mechanism, and fully a reflection of the restaurant reservation culture in India.
Simply put, Reservation Gym is a website where you practise booking a table. Pick your restaurant, choose your date, add your details, and race against time. At the end, you receive a score that tells you your chances of actually getting in.
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