Wait, Are Any of These AI Restaurant Reservation Apps Even Legal?
(Hell Gate)

Wait, Are Any of These AI Restaurant Reservation Apps Even Legal?

New York regulated services that use bots to book coveted tables in 2024, we thought.

Would you give an AI agent your credit card information to get spicy rigatoni at Carbone? If so, it's your time to dine—there, and at some of New York City's other hyped establishments. 

AI is advanced enough now that an agent can monitor restaurant reservation management services like Resy and OpenTable and snag two-tops for date night. One loaded entrepreneur was banned from Resy in August for having his AI agent trawl for a table at the West Village's 4 Charles Prime Rib “hundreds of times every hour of the day.” But you'll probably need to pay for a premium subscription to an AI service to use that much juice. 

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