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Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Over the last few weeks, personal assistants like Instinct, Fo, and Muse have enabled users to call businesses for customer support and appointment booking.
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Yelp is rolling out a new feature called Check for Me that lets app users request a voice‑based AI assistant to call a restaurant and inquire about current wait times. The option appears on restaurant pages within the Yelp app, where users input their party size and phone number. After the AI agent makes the call, it texts the wait‑time information back to the user, who can then decide whether to visit the venue. This addition follows recent moves by personal assistants such as Instinct, Fo and Muse, which have begun handling customer‑support and booking calls on behalf of users.
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