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Free OpenTable Review Widgets for Showit

Embed OpenTable reviews anywhere on your Showit canvas in 60 seconds — drag an Embed Code widget, paste, Publish. OpenTable's official widget only books tables and Showit has no plugin store; BlooTrue is the only free path to showing your verified-diner reviews.

Key facts: 60-second install on Showit · shows the reviews OpenTable's own widget hides · drag-anywhere Embed Code widget placement · desktop + mobile canvas both supported · no OpenTable API access required · real 1–5 stars from verified diners

Last updated September 25, 2026·by Mike Ragimov

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Install guides

Same OpenTable widget, platform-specific install guide. Pick where your site lives.

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Why Use BlooTrue for OpenTable on Showit?

The only free way to put OpenTable reviews on a Showit design — OpenTable's widget only books tables, and Showit has no plugin store.

Shows What OpenTable's Widget Won't

OpenTable's official website widget only takes reservations — it never displays your reviews. BlooTrue is the free, paste-and-go complement — it pulls reviews from your public OpenTable restaurant page automatically.

Verified Diners Only

Every OpenTable review comes from someone who booked through OpenTable and honored the reservation — no drive-by reviews from people who never ate there. That verified badge is exactly what convinces a diner to book a table.

Drag-Anywhere Placement

Showit's Embed Code widget goes wherever your design needs it, on both the desktop and mobile canvases. Pixel-level control, no layout grid fighting you.

No OpenTable API Access Required

Works with any public OpenTable restaurant page. No partner integration, no API quotas, no restaurant-level claim required.

How Do I Install BlooTrue OpenTable on Showit?

Takes less than a minute. One Embed Code widget, placed on both canvases, then Publish.

Add an Embed Code Widget to the Canvas

Open your page in the Showit design app and add an Embed Code widget. Drag it anywhere on the desktop canvas — beside your reservation link, under the hero, on the menu page.

The Embed Code widget is built into every Showit plan.

Paste the OpenTable Embed Code into the Widget Settings

With the Embed Code widget selected, open its settings panel and paste the BlooTrue OpenTable embed code you copied above. The widget shows as a placeholder box in the design app — that's expected (see step 4).

Place It on the Mobile Canvas Too

Showit designs desktop and mobile canvases separately. Switch to the mobile view and position the Embed Code widget there as well so phone visitors see your OpenTable reviews.

Same embed code on both — the widget adapts to each canvas width.

Publish — and Check the Live Site, Not the Preview

Click Publish. Showit's in-app preview does not run third-party scripts, so the widget will not render there. Open the live published URL — your OpenTable reviews appear on it.

Reviews auto-sync from OpenTable every 24 hours.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other OpenTable-on-Showit Options

OpenTable's widget only books tables. Showit has no plugin store. Here are the only paths.

Option	BlooTrue	OpenTable official	Static screenshots
Displays OpenTable reviews on your site		Reservations only	Images only
Auto-sync new OpenTable reviews		—	—
No OpenTable API access needed		—
Desktop + mobile canvas placement		—
No design-app rework when reviews change		—	—
Clickable, accessible review text		—	—
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	—
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	Your time

OpenTable Review Widget for Showit — Free, the Only Free Path

BlooTrue's OpenTable Review Widget for Showit is a free, no-code embed that displays your OpenTable reviews anywhere on a Showit canvas. There's a double gap to bridge: OpenTable's official website widget only takes reservations — it never displays your reviews — and Showit has no plugin marketplace at all, so there's no app route either. BlooTrue fills both gaps through Showit's built-in Embed Code widget: drag it onto the desktop canvas, paste the snippet into the widget settings, place it again on the separate mobile canvas, and Publish. Note the Showit quirk: the in-app preview does not run third-party scripts, so the widget renders on the live published site only. Every OpenTable review is written by a verified diner — someone who booked through OpenTable and honored the reservation — and the widget header shows your real 1–5 star average exactly as it appears on OpenTable, no conversion. That makes it a natural fit for the design-led restaurants, cafés, bistros, and steakhouses that build on Showit. 100+ widget styles, light and dark themes, free custom color picker. On paid plans, schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is added to the page where the embed runs inline rather than inside an iframe, so search engines and AI assistants can read the reviews as structured data. Google does not show review stars for reviews a business shows about itself, so the gain is readability, not stars.

Why doesn't OpenTable's own widget show reviews?

OpenTable's official website widget is built to do one thing: take reservations. It never displays the reviews your verified diners leave — those stay on OpenTable's own pages, where competing restaurants are one tap away. For Showit sites the gap is even wider — Showit has no plugin marketplace, so there is no app to install in the first place. Third-party widgets like BlooTrue are the canonical way to surface OpenTable reviews on a Showit site.

About OpenTable reviews in this widget

Your OpenTable widget shows the diner reviews from your restaurant's OpenTable page, the one at opentable.com/r. The score heading the widget is the overall star rating and review count OpenTable reports for that page, rather than a number built from the cards. Every review comes from a diner who booked through OpenTable and honoured the reservation, so nobody who did not sit down at your tables can post one. OpenTable's own website widget only takes reservations; pasting it in the hope of seeing diner reviews gets you a booking form, since OpenTable has no review embed.

Frequently Asked Questions

I already have the OpenTable reservation widget on my site, does it show reviews too?

No. OpenTable's reservation widget takes bookings and offers no way to show diner reviews. The BlooTrue widget is a separate one-line embed built from your opentable.com/r restaurant URL, showing the reviews diners left after honouring a reservation, with the OpenTable rating and review count in the header taken from your page.

Are OpenTable reviews worth embedding if diners can only review after a reservation?

Yes, because that rule is what sets OpenTable apart. OpenTable only opens the review form to a diner who honoured a reservation booked through OpenTable, so every card on your site comes from a person who ate at your restaurant on a known date. Sites that let anyone post cannot say that about their reviews.

How quickly does a new OpenTable review reach my website?

On a paid plan, by the next day: the widget refreshes from your OpenTable page every 24 hours, so a review written after last night's reservation appears the following day, and the BlooTrue badge is removed. On the free plan the diner reviews are the ones imported when you first published the widget; new ones do not arrive.

Is the BlooTrue OpenTable widget free for Showit?

Yes. BlooTrue is completely free for Showit. No plugin, no recurring fee, unlimited widget views, works on every Showit plan. The free plan shows your OpenTable reviews with BlooTrue branding in the footer.

Doesn't OpenTable already offer a widget for Showit?

OpenTable's official website widget only takes reservations — it does not display your reviews. Showit also has no plugin marketplace, so there's no app route either. BlooTrue fills the gap with a free review embed pasted into Showit's built-in Embed Code widget, so diners can read your verified reviews and then book.

Do I need OpenTable API access or a partner integration?

No. BlooTrue works with any public OpenTable restaurant page — no API access, no partner integration, no restaurant-level claim required. Just paste your opentable.com/r/your-restaurant URL into the BlooTrue builder.

Why don't my OpenTable reviews show in the Showit preview?

Showit's in-app preview doesn't execute third-party scripts — by design. The Embed Code widget shows as a placeholder box inside the design app and preview. Publish your site and open the live URL: the OpenTable reviews render there. This applies to every script-based embed on Showit, not just BlooTrue.

Do I place the OpenTable widget twice for desktop and mobile?

Yes. Showit designs the desktop and mobile canvases independently. Add the Embed Code widget on the desktop canvas, then switch to the mobile view and position it there too. Same embed code in both — the widget sizes itself to each canvas automatically.

Which Showit restaurants benefit most from an OpenTable widget?

Design-forward restaurants — fine-dining rooms, neighborhood bistros, cafés, steakhouses, and restaurant groups that chose Showit for its designed look. Every OpenTable review comes from a verified diner who honored a reservation, and surfacing those reviews next to your reservation link keeps diners from leaving your site to check you on OpenTable.

Will the widget slow down my Showit site?

No. The widget loads asynchronously after your page content. The script is under 20KB and reviews are served from a CDN cache. Typical impact on Largest Contentful Paint is under 50ms — well within Core Web Vitals thresholds, even on image-heavy menu and gallery pages.