Belfast: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every restaurant and fast food business in Belfast that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 5 of 523 distinct websites have been scanned.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)
of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 0 · B 1 · C 2 · D 1 · F 1
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
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| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Muddlers Club Restaurant themuddlersclubbelfast.com | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | Nico’s mynicos.co.uk · pizza | C 64.6% | image | own site | open |
| 3 | Shed Grill shedbelfast.com · irish, seafood | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 4 | Joses Deli & Desserts Whitewell fallonespizzabelfast.co.uk | D 49.2% | none | third party | open |
| 5 | City Picnic chromewebdata · burger | F 0% | none | none | blocked |
What the index found in Belfast
| none | 3 |
| HTML page | 1 |
| image | 1 |
| own site | 3 |
| none | 1 |
| third party | 1 |
| Squarespace | 2 |
| Unknown | 2 |
| Wordpress | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 1 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 0 |
| Didn't answer in time | 1 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 0 |
| No working site (dead address) | 0 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 5 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 5 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned.
Where assistants send people in Belfast
Of 44 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 11% link a marketplace, most often Deliveroo. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 44 | 100% |
| Press, guides and forums | press and guides | 15 | 34% |
| belfastrestaurantweek.org | other site | 3 | 7% |
| Deliveroo | marketplace | 3 | 7% |
| discovernorthernireland.com | other site | 3 | 7% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Belfast
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 97% | 0% | 2% | 2% | 61 |
| Gemini | 94% | 0% | 0% | 6% | 62 |
Asked on 2026-11-14. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 22 questions, the assistants named 90 different places. This index has 1,355 businesses. Question by question →
Belfast, month by month
Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 so far | 5 | 20% | 60% | 1 |
Belfast, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the restaurants and fast food index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food this page | 1,355 | 692 | 5 | A 0 · B 1 · C 2 · D 1 · F 1 |
| cafes and bars | 868 | 388 | 0 | |
| hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | 1,461 | 444 | 13 | A 1 · B 3 · C 5 · D 1 · F 3 |
| dentists, clinics and vets | 623 | 329 | 0 | |
| tours, attractions and museums | 215 | 154 | 0 |
169 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Belfast?
0 of 5 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.