- Perplexity’s AI chatbot will find and reserve restaurant tables through OpenTable
- The conversation approach optimizes the process of satisfaction of the requests for the details of the location and when it has an opening
- Perplexity expects people to remain in the platform instead of needing to go to complete a task
The perplexity of the search engine wants to do more than just find your next restaurant; He wants to reserve his table. Perplexity made a deal with opening to embed the reserve tool in perplexity. Instead of only providing restaurant links to help you book a table, you can get a place in any of the more than 60,000 opening restaurants within the conversation.
The first part of the process is the same as before in perplexity. Request “a quiet Thai place in Brooklyn that is good for vegetarians and have outdoor seats”, and will serve a filtered list of advantage options that coincide with its requested decoration, dietary needs and environments. If you see that a location you would like to go to the one available through OpenTable, there will be a “reserve” button for when you want to go, and end. Instead of jumping from searching to the reservation, now you get everything in a conversation.
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The agreement encourages people to keep the perplexity to make their dinner plans, part of a larger trend where IA platforms try not only to provide information, but complete tasks. Reserve a table may seem small, but magic lies in collapsing all the invisible steps between wanting to find a place to go and do it.
The normal route could involve half an hour of navigation, second divination and refreshing opening to see what is still available. With the new perplexity system, you describe the stage and see it solve yourself. Under the hood, Openable’s own janitor handles most of the work. It is based on the metadata of each restaurant, including menus, seat arrangements and any label attached to its listing in opening, and uses it to give perplexity more precise recommendations.
The perplexity shows the restaurant, the available times and then operating manages the reservation itself, complete with confirmation and any option to modify or cancel. He is not an autonomous agent as the chatgpt agent mode. Softens the way between the two services, but does not travel between them as an agent would.
It is probably the best, since perplexity can occasionally misunderstand your application or promise based on incomplete, but operable restaurant data will not reserve a table that is not available. And although Opentable restaurants profiles are usually rich in detail, they still trust restaurants to maintain precise things.
From the perspective of opening, this is a distribution movement. Putting their reserve infrastructure in the perplexity flow gives them access to a new set of users. Instead of trying to gain attention in a crowded, opening application race becomes part of a platform that people are already using. As IA attendees continue to evolve, wait for more from these perfect transfers between search, decision and action. Reserve a table could be the beginning; Better reserve your place now.
