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Google Maps Just Became a Food Ordering Agent: What Ask Maps Means for Restaurants
Google Maps' Ask Maps can now order takeout end-to-end: users prompt the assistant in natural language, and it assembles the cart on Square or Toast (Uber Eats coming) before handing over for payment. Google also announced a Universal Commerce Protocol for Food. For restaurants without a live, structured menu, the second major AI-ordering channel of the summer has just opened — and closed.
Cameron Lane
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