Cambridge in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
124 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 116 of them could be read. 18% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 77% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 74 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
For October 2026 so far, 124 restaurant and fast food business websites were scanned, with 116 reachable and 8 unreachable from our scanner. In the overall grades, 29 sites achieved an A, 45 earned a B, 23 received a C, 8 got a D, and 19 were graded F, meaning 74 sites or 60% of the scanned sites achieved an A or B together. Looking at content, 87 sites share a menu or price list as an HTML page, 7 provide a PDF, 1 displays an image, and 21 offer no menu or price list. For booking and ordering options, 89 sites or 77% of the reachable sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, with 83 handling direct booking or ordering on the business's own site, 6 using a vendor on the business's own site, 1 working only through a marketplace, 1 using an unrecognised third party, and 25 presenting no booking or ordering path.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-26; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 43 |
| A | 31 |
| C | 23 |
| F | 18 |
| D | 9 |
| HTML page | 87 |
| none | 21 |
| 7 | |
| image | 1 |
| own site | 83 |
| none | 25 |
| vendor on own site | 6 |
| marketplace | 1 |
| third party | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 22 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 8 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 116 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 124 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
Where assistants sent people in October 2026
For the top-ranked businesses, each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order. Each business and question counts once, with the latest answer before the month ended.
| Assistant | Own site or direct vendor | Marketplace | Directory | Nowhere useful | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 78% | 10% | 0% | 12% | 60 |
| Gemini | 85% | 10% | 0% | 5% | 60 |
Asked the way people ask
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 98% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 62 |
| Gemini | 94% | 2% | 0% | 5% | 66 |
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.