Cory O'Connor (Decheco's Pizza)

Our first story on the docket today is coming f- coming in from Google.

Uh, I, I think probably a lot of folks have seen, uh, some of these things recently, uh, not- both from Google and a couple other of the big tech players in the industry like OpenAI, um, adding agentic AI features to their, uh, platforms.

This one's really interesting.

Um, Google announced on Thursday, uh, that Google Maps' Ask Maps feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and event tickets.

Um, the tech giant is also bringing personal intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a user's Gmail or Google Calendar.

This is the, this is what I'm most interested in for this show, but, uh, they say with the new agentic food ordering capabilities, users can open Ask Maps in Google Maps and ask a question like, "Where can I order a vegan avocado toast and oat milk latte near home?" The tool will then surface nearby restaurants that have what they are looking for.

After selecting a restaurant, users can tap on Order Online, the Order Online option to place an order through supported platforms s- such as Square, Toast, or Uber Eats.

Ask Maps will add the items to the cart.

Users can then choose to add more items to their cart and then pay for their order.

So it'll be interesting to see how this actually works out.

I think it's a really good first step.

Um, I don't use Ask Maps right now.

I haven't.

I, I'm actually an Apple Maps guy, which is crazy.

I, I, I was like a Google Maps, um, apologist.

Not apologist.

I was a Google-

[chuckles]

...

Maps, like, lover for so long.

I'm really curious to see.

I think this is a really good first step.

I'm really curious to see how much adoption it actually gets.

I mean, coming from my position here at Lohmann, like we do a lot of inbound, um, people calling restaurants.

Obviously we're, we're a voice AI company.

Our first story on the docket today is coming f- coming in from Google.

Uh, I, I think probably a lot of folks have seen, uh, some of these things recently, uh, not- both from Google and a couple other of the big tech players in the industry like OpenAI, um, adding agentic AI features to their, uh, platforms.

This one's really interesting.

Um, Google announced on Thursday, uh, that Google Maps' Ask Maps feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and event tickets.

Um, the tech giant is also bringing personal intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a user's Gmail or Google Calendar.

This is the, this is what I'm most interested in for this show, but, uh, they say with the new agentic food ordering capabilities, users can open Ask Maps in Google Maps and ask a question like, "Where can I order a vegan avocado toast and oat milk latte near home?" The tool will then surface nearby restaurants that have what they are looking for.

After selecting a restaurant, users can tap on Order Online, the Order Online option to place an order through supported platforms s- such as Square, Toast, or Uber Eats.

Ask Maps will add the items to the cart.

Users can then choose to add more items to their cart and then pay for their order.

So it'll be interesting to see how this actually works out.

I think it's a really good first step.

Um, I don't use Ask Maps right now.

I haven't.

I, I'm actually an Apple Maps guy, which is crazy.

I, I, I was like a Google Maps, um, apologist.

Not apologist.

I was a Google-

[chuckles]

...

Maps, like, lover for so long.

I'm really curious to see.

I think this is a really good first step.

I'm really curious to see how much adoption it actually gets.

I mean, coming from my position here at Lohmann, like we do a lot of inbound, um, people calling restaurants.

Obviously we're, we're a voice AI company.