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20 Oct 2026, 7:00 PM	TechCrunch	4.5	Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant Yelp is rolling out "Check for Me," which appears on restaurant pages in its app: you enter party size and phone number, a Yelp voice agent calls the restaurant to ask about wait times, then texts you the answer. The same update adds an OpenTable booking integration inside Yelp's AI assistant, memory of stated preferences, 30-day chat history, custom recurring reminders, and two starter lists ("Been Here" and "Want to Go") with filters, notes, reordering and sharing. Weekly personalized recommendations from saved items and rankings start next month, and list/collection improvements are slated for later in the year. Why: There is no API, price, or availability detail here and nothing Malaysia-specific, so most builders have nothing to change. The one concrete signal for anyone shipping voice agents: Yelp already sells a voice solution to restaurants, so its consumer agent may end up talking to a business's agent — agent-to-agent call handling is now a real edge case to design for, not a hypothetical. ai-agents voice-agents consumer-apps yelp

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20 Oct 2026, 7:00 PM

TechCrunch

4.5

Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant

Yelp is rolling out "Check for Me," which appears on restaurant pages in its app: you enter party size and phone number, a Yelp voice agent calls the restaurant to ask about wait times, then texts you the answer. The same update adds an OpenTable booking integration inside Yelp's AI assistant, memory of stated preferences, 30-day chat history, custom recurring reminders, and two starter lists ("Been Here" and "Want to Go") with filters, notes, reordering and sharing. Weekly personalized recommendations from saved items and rankings start next month, and list/collection improvements are slated for later in the year.

Why: There is no API, price, or availability detail here and nothing Malaysia-specific, so most builders have nothing to change. The one concrete signal for anyone shipping voice agents: Yelp already sells a voice solution to restaurants, so its consumer agent may end up talking to a business's agent — agent-to-agent call handling is now a real edge case to design for, not a hypothetical.