Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
- Who
- Zest
- What
- launched a text-based AI restaurant concierge that recommends restaurants and books reservations
- Quote
On Thursday, the startup introduced a new feature: a personal AI-powered “restaurant concierge” that lives in your text messages, similar to other popular AI agents like Instinct or Poke.
What happened
Zest introduced an AI restaurant concierge that recommends places and books tables through text messages using connected services including OpenTable, Resy, and SevenRooms. It draws on dining history tracked through linked credit cards and can join group chats to combine preferences, run votes, and book a table. TechCrunch’s tests found that its recommendations worked fairly well for conditions including time, party size, and location.
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Zest launched an AI restaurant concierge that recommends restaurants and books tables through text messages, using connected services including OpenTable, Resy, and SevenRooms. TechCrunch’s tests found that its recommendations worked fairly well for requests specifying time, party size, and location. The concierge draws on dining history tracked through linked credit cards to inform its suggestions. It can also join group chats, combine participants’ preferences, run votes, and book a table.
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