Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Finding and securing restaurant reservations often requires checking multiple booking platforms, monitoring cancellations, and acting instantly when a table becomes available, which is time‑consuming and prone to missed opportunities.
Solution
Quenelle provides a text‑based personal dining assistant that automates reservation hunting across major platforms such as Resy, OpenTable, SevenRooms, and Tock. Users simply send an SMS or iMessage describing their desired restaurant, date, time, party size, or vibe, and Quenelle performs a real‑time, cross‑platform search to return available options. If no immediate slot exists, the service sets a continuous watch on the request and notifies the user the moment a table opens, including direct booking links. For supported venues, Quenelle can add users to SevenRooms waitlists or automatically book on Resy without manual clicks. The entire experience lives within standard messaging, eliminating the need for a dedicated app or dashboard.
Target Audience
Quenelle is aimed at diners who regularly seek tables at popular restaurants—especially those in high‑demand urban markets—and at hospitality professionals who want to offer guests a seamless reservation service without building their own concierge platform.
Features
- Natural‑language SMS interface that understands requests without special commands
- Real‑time parallel querying of Resy, OpenTable, SevenRooms, Tock, and other reservation systems
- Continuous 24/7 monitoring of cancellations and release slots with instant text alerts
- Auto‑Book on Resy to secure a table automatically when criteria are met
- Direct integration with SevenRooms waitlists for hard‑to‑book venues
- Ability to search by restaurant, cuisine, neighborhood, vibe, date range, and party size
- Simple onboarding via Gmail link and preference capture through chat