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And does having an AI call the restaurant instead of you doing it sound cool to you?

I’m not the person you asked but I’m also confused by this use case.

Most restaurants have a web UI which is very simple and easy to use.

If I'm booking a restaurant I'll probably be discussing the date/time options with the people I'm going with, and I can't see how adding a chatbot to the mix is meant to help?

Here in Bangalore, you can usually book directly from the Google Maps listing. Or sometimes click a link that will open in Swiggy/Zomato, and you just book from there.

At least in this city, reserving a table using the apps you already have on your phone is faster than using an LLM. Maybe these products are for people who know about the existence of Claude and ChatGPT but not Google Maps?

If it works reliably, sure? But like, it's not something I'd pay for.

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