Subj : Perplexity can help you figure out where to eat, and book your ta To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Aug 06 2025 12:30:09 Perplexity can help you figure out where to eat, and book your table too Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:26:31 +0000 Description: Perplexity has embedded OpenTable into its AI platform, allowing conversational table booking for restaurants. FULL STORY ======================================================================Perplexi ty's AI chatbot will both find and book restaurant tables through OpenTable The conversational approach streamlines the process of fulfilling requests for the details of the location and when it has an opening Perplexity hopes the integration will encourage people to stay on the platform rather than needing to leave to complete a task AI search engine Perplexity wants to do more than just find your next restaurant; it wants to book your table. Perplexity made a deal with OpenTable to embed the reservation tool into Perplexity. Instead of just providing links to restaurants to help you reserve a table, you can get a spot at any of OpenTables more than 60,000 restaurants within the conversation. The first part of the process is the same as before in Perplexity. Ask for a quiet Thai place in Brooklyn thats good for vegetarians and has outdoor seating, and itll serve up a filtered list of OpenTable options that match your requested decor, dietary needs, and vibe. If you see a location you'd like to go to that is available through OpenTable, there will be a Reserve button for when you want to go, and youre done. Instead of hopping from search to decision to reservation, you now get everything in one conversation. Dining Perplexity The deal encourages people to stick around on Perplexity to make their dinner plans, part of a bigger trend where AI platforms try to not just provide information, but complete tasks. Booking a table might seem like a small thing, but the magic lies in collapsing all the invisible steps between wanting to find a place to go and actually doing so. The normal route might involve a half-hour of browsing, second-guessing, and refreshing OpenTable to see whats still available. With Perplexitys new system, you describe the scenario and watch it solve itself. Under the hood, OpenTables own AI Concierge handles most of the work. It draws on each restaurants metadata, including menus, seating arrangements, and any tags attached to its listing on OpenTable, and uses that to give Perplexity more precise recommendations. Perplexity shows the restaurant, available times, and then OpenTable handles the booking itself, complete with confirmation and any options to modify or cancel. Its not an autonomous agent like ChatGPT's Agent Mode. It smooths the path between the two services but doesn't travel between them like an Agent would. That's probably for the best since Perplexity can occasionally misunderstand your request or over-promise based on incomplete restaurant data, but OpenTable won't book you a table that's not available. And while OpenTables restaurant profiles are usually rich in detail, they still rely on restaurants to keep things accurate. From OpenTables perspective, this is a distribution move. Putting their booking infrastructure into Perplexitys flow gives them access to a new set of users. Instead of trying to win attention in a crowded app race, OpenTable becomes part of a platform people are already using. As AI assistants continue to evolve, expect more of these seamless handoffs between search, decision, and action. Booking a table might just be the beginning; better reserve your spot now. You might also like You can now fact check anybodys post in WhatsApp heres how Perplexity's voice assistant offers a Siri alternative for iPhones Perplexity AI drops new Squid Game-inspired ad that pokes fun at Google starring Lee Jung-jae ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/perplexity-can-help-you-figu re-out-where-to-eat-and-book-your-table-too --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .