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Finding a place to eat in Greater Boston, particularly during peak hours, is not for the faint of stomach. Even if you have the foresight to try making reservations, a share of eateries throughout the city don’t take them. So when you’re ready to get your chow on, but you don’t have the will to stand in a line clinging to a greasy buzzer for upwards of an hour, there’s an app for you called TiRest.

David and Mariam Deisadze, a sibling duo, found themselves in an all too familiar situation.

“We couldn’t find anything – literally.”

“We were driving around with a friend, looking for a place to eat,” David told us. “We couldn’t find anything – literally… Why isn’t there an app that tells you the waiting time at restaurants?”

TiRest auto-generates a list restaurants near you, allowing you to instantly see if they’re open, along with the wait times for each establishment. The app pulls reviews and ratings from various sources, including Yelp, Google and Foursquare, so users have easy access to this information. And when they submit waiting times, they can also add reviews native to TiRest.

To be fair, there is another app giving people estimated wait times at eateries called Nowait. But TiRest is taking a slightly different approach to solving this problem for hungry Bostonians who just want a table.

According to David, TiRest works similarly to Waze. “It’s user-driven, so whenever users submit a waiting time at a restaurant, they earn points,” he said. TiRest is developing relationships with certain restaurants throughout the metro area, and users will be able to redeem their points in the form of discounts and promotions to these eateries.

David, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Mariam, a full-time nurse, have been working on TiRest over the past year and they launched their open beta a matter of days ago. Their primary revenue stream will be coming from restaurants, as the team plans to charge for them to feature ads, promotions, special menus or “whatever they want” on the app.

“It’s built for users, so we’re not charging them anything,” David explained. “We want to give them an incentive to use it, to earn gift cards and discounts, to avoid waiting in line.”