{"id":204381,"date":"2026-04-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:30:10","slug":"yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp&#8217;s AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation-110000661.html\">Yelp&#8217;s AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation-110000661.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation-110000661.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yelp has enhanced its Yelp Assistant, an advanced AI chatbot, to serve all its varied categories.<\/li>\n<li>Initially introduced in 2024, Yelp Assistant&#8217;s scope was expanded in 2025, and now it can understand and respond to natural language queries to locate specific local businesses.<\/li>\n<li>The chatbot now assists in making restaurant reservations and ordering takeout.<\/li>\n<li>Yelp&#8217;s spring product updates have included useful third-party integrations with Vagaro, ZocDoc, and Calendly to facilitate bookings in related fields.<\/li>\n<li>Yelp Assistant is easily accessible via dedicated tabs in both the iOS and Android apps, and it can also be used through business pages in certain sectors like restaurants and retail shops.<\/li>\n<li>Plans for supporting all business types and rolling out a desktop version are set for later in 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Additional AI features on the horizon include a personalized mobile home page and enhanced photo discovery tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp&#8217;s AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/yelps-ai-chatbot-can-now-make-your-dinner-reservation-110000661.html Publish Date: 2026-04-21 07:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/KvZgudgkPJVU6eTHktoFFQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/yelp_assistant__making_beauty_appointments_via_vagaro_6734.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204383,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204381\/revisions\/204383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}