AI Visibility · Restaurants
"Where should we eat" is now an AI question — asked in the car, answered with two or three names and a reason each. The answer is assembled from your reviews, your listing, and whether AI can read your menu.
Run my free check — no signup →BrightLocal's 2026 consumer survey found the share of people using AI tools to research local businesses jumped from 6% to 45% in one year. Google now leads a large share of results pages with AI Overviews — and where the classic map pack showed three or more businesses, AI answers typically name one or two. Most searches now end without a single click to any website.
The customer asks: “Where should we eat tonight?” — and the assistant answers with a name, a reason, and a phone number. Being the name in that answer is the new first page. There is no second page.
AI summarizes what diners rave about — the dish, the patio, the service. Those themes only exist if reviews keep arriving.
PDF and image-only menus are invisible to AI. A text menu (or Menu schema) means AI can answer "who has good gluten-free pasta".
Hours (especially holidays), photos under 12 months old, attributes like reservations and outdoor seating.
Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable — AI cross-references before it commits to a recommendation.
The free check shows whether AI crawlers are allowed to read your site. The full audit runs local searches for your trade and city and shows whether Google’s AI cites you, along with your reviews and citations.
The full audit has seven sections: Google Business Profile completeness, website health, reviews and AI sentiment, citation presence across the web, local keyword rankings, competitor comparison, and AI search readiness — including whether GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended can crawl your site and whether Google’s AI Overviews cite you on your money searches. The free check covers two of them: website health and whether those AI crawlers can read your site. Every check is documented on our methodology page.
Check my restaurant free →Yes — BrightLocal’s 2026 consumer survey found the share of consumers using AI tools to research local businesses jumped from 6% to 45% in a single year. Google’s own results now lead with AI Overviews on a large share of searches, and those AI answers typically feature only one or two businesses instead of the classic pack of three-plus.
Run the free check. It reads your website and shows whether AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) are allowed in, with a website health score and every finding, in a minute or two, no signup. What an AI assistant says about your business, and whether Google’s AI Overviews cite you, are covered in the full audit.
Largely yes. AI recommendations are built from public signals you control: review volume and recency, consistent listing data, crawlable service pages, and structured data. The full report ranks exactly which fixes matter most for your business, in order of impact.
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