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title: Brussels in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/brussels/2026-10
---

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# Brussels in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

1,079 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 811 reachable. 17% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 48% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 327 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,079

sites scanned

17%

turn an AI crawler away

48%

book or order on their own domain

327

score A or B

Among the 1079 scanned websites, 811 were reachable and 268 were unreachable from our scanner. Looking at the results, 327 sites earned an A or B together, which is 30% of the scanned sites, while 162 received a C, 207 received a D, and 383 received an F. For menus and price lists, 480 were an HTML page, 62 were a PDF, 19 were on another site, 15 were on the page itself, 9 were an image, and 226 had no menu or price list. Regarding reservations and purchases, 343 took requests on the business's own site, 47 operated through a vendor on the business's own site, 68 relied only through a marketplace, 29 went through an unrecognised third party, and 324 had no booking or ordering path.

Sur 1079 sites de restaurants et de fast-food analysés en octobre 2026, 811 étaient accessibles et 268 inaccessibles, 327 sites obtenant une note A ou B, soit 30% des sites analysés. Parmi les sites accessibles, 140 repoussent au moins un robot d'IA à la périphérie, soit 17% des sites accessibles, tandis que 7 bloquent un robot d'IA dans robots.txt. Pour le menu ou la liste de prix, 480 le proposent sous forme de page HTML, 62 sous forme de PDF, 15 sur la page elle-même, 9 sous forme d'image, 19 sur un autre site et 226 n'en présentent aucun. Pour la réservation ou la commande, 390 sites permettent une démarche sur leur propre domaine, soit 48% des sites accessibles, avec 343 directement sur le site du business et 47 via un prestataire direct sur le site du business, contre 68 uniquement via une place de marché, 29 via un tiers non reconnu et 324 sans parcours.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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 Findings

## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades

| F | 383 |
| D | 207 |
| B | 164 |
| A | 163 |
| C | 162 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 480 |
| none | 226 |
| PDF | 62 |
| elsewhere | 19 |
| on the page | 15 |
| image | 9 |

Direct booking or ordering

| own site | 343 |
| none | 324 |
| marketplace | 68 |
| vendor on own site | 47 |
| third party | 29 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 140 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 7 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 268 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 811 reachable sites.

 Assistants

## Where assistants sent people in October 2026

Each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order, for the top-ranked businesses. Latest answer per business and question before the month ended.

| Assistant | Own site or direct vendor | Marketplace | Directory | Nowhere useful | Answers |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | **100%** | 0% | 0% | 0% | 3 |
| Claude | **33%** | 67% | 0% | 0% | 3 |

 Method

## How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. [Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [the live index](https://directindex.org/city/brussels) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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