Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration

Forget the flashy demos, this is what AI actually shipping into daily life looks like, a boring payments company quietly routing around a decade of steep delivery-app cuts. If chat interfaces become a real ordering channel, the leverage shifts hard away from delivery marketplaces and back toward the restaurants that got squeezed. Small business owners should be paying more attention to this than to whatever the next model release is.