Sir Alex Ferguson nets four million pounds from booking restaurant tables!

LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has scooped four million pounds from the sale of restaurant-booking website Toptable, in which he had an 11 percent stake.

Karen Hanton, who founded Toptable in 1999, will collect 16 million pounds from her 46 percent stake in the company, which was snapped up by US rival OpenTable for 35 million pounds.

Hanton, a serial entrepreneur who has sold off a string of businesses, said that Ferguson’s experience was key to the company’s success, The Daily Star reports.

Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes, another early investor, is due to collect about 400,000 pounds.

Toptable collects two pounds per booking placed via the site, which lists about 5,000 restaurants in 14 countries. (ANI)