USA: New app fills empty restaurant tables with free Uber rides

Cake.af, launching in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco this week, texts users when an empty table is available and then escorts them to that restaurant with a free Uber ride. The app's young founder, 16-year old Daniel Singer, said Cake pays Uber for transporting the customer and the restaurant pays Cake for bringing them the customer.

Users can sign up for the (free) Cake.af service by texting the cake emoji to the provided phone number; once they're registered, "the team at Cake.af will determine restaurants that have availability/open tables and send an invite to the customer detailing the establishment and the time of the reservation. If the customer accepts the invite, an Uber car will be sent to provide a free ride to the restaurant. If the customer is not interested in the restaurant or available, they can simply decline the invite."

.af is a domain extension that typically signifies a website based in Afghanistan, but in Singer's case it does double duty as ubiquitous internet lexicon for "as fuck" (obviously).

Singer is currently taking a year off from high school to focus on working full-time; he's also behind a social app called Bond.sh, among other projects.