> But who even calls a restaurant in the era of Google and Resy?<p>I do, because the online methods of making reservations tend to come with downsides that I have a rather low tolerance for. Calling is the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to go.<p>But if I got an LLM when I called (assuming I could tell -- right now, that's not hard), then I'd probably just hang up and not go to that restaurant. If I wanted to talk to a computer, I would have gone to the website.