AI search accuracy for restaurants: what ChatGPT and Perplexity need
When people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Google AI about restaurants, the answers depend on what those assistants can read on your site. These are the facts they most often need, and get wrong when they are missing or not machine-readable.
Facts AI assistants need from these sites
- Current menu and prices
- Opening hours and holiday closures
- Reservations, delivery and takeout options
- Dietary options (vegan, gluten-free)
What we found on 45 restaurants websites
- 62% have any structured data (JSON-LD)
- 42% identify the business in structured data
- 22% publish machine-readable opening hours
- 9% publish machine-readable pricing
- 4% have FAQ structured data
- 31% have an /llms.txt file
- 76% have a meta description
None of the sampled sites block the major AI crawlers in robots.txt.
Methodology: Read-only scan of the homepage and up to 2 linked pages of 45 public restaurants websites in six U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix), scanned 2026-10-26. Site list from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Our crawler honors robots.txt; individual sites are never named. Automated checks find only some issues, and these figures describe the sample, not every business or any legal conclusion. About our crawler.
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Run the free audit. It shows which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks and generates a ready-to-upload /llms.txt and structured data (JSON-LD) with your real facts, so assistants have accurate information to quote.
Frequently asked questions
What should restaurants check first?
Current menu and prices.
How do I check my own site?
Run the free audit. It shows which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks and generates a ready-to-upload /llms.txt and structured data (JSON-LD) with your real facts, so assistants have accurate information to quote.
Is this legal advice?
No. These are technical guidelines and an automated, read-only check, not legal advice or a certification.
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