Zest launches a text-message AI agent that books restaurant tables
Original title: Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Users text (212) 470-6067; the agent draws on card history via Plaid and books through OpenTable, Resy, and SevenRooms.
Restaurant app Zest launched a text-message “restaurant concierge” that recommends places and books tables without opening the app. It can join group chats, run an in-thread vote, and answer questions such as busyness, Wi-Fi, and menus. The company, founded in November 2024 with $1.8 million in pre-seed funding, says booking and later food ordering are its first revenue lines and that it may expand beyond restaurants.
- Users reach the concierge by texting (212) 470-6067.
- Taste data comes from food and drink card transactions imported through Plaid.
- Booking uses OpenTable, Resy, and SevenRooms.
- Zest began testing the concierge last month and delayed launch until booking worked.
- Backers named are Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Steve Jang’s Kindred Ventures.
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Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
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