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Assistants · Charlotte cafes and bars, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Charlotte cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-19, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 100% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 25% link a marketplace, most often Resy (13%).

Fewer than 30 answers, so this share is not compared with other cities.

100%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

25%

link a marketplace

13%

link Resy, the marketplace named most

24

answers, 24 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 24 answers to the questions people ask, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 25% a marketplace, Resy most often.

Updated 2026-11-08. The Charlotte cafes and bars index · Places named, question by question · Markdown · JSON · Share image · All cities.

League table

The destinations, most linked first

Each row is a place an answer can send people. Share is the percentage of all 24 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site24100%12 100%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1146%011 92%
Resymarketplace313%03 25%
uptowncharlotte.comdirectory313%03 25%
joe.coffeemarketplace28%02 17%
Toastvendor, direct28%02 17%
toast.appvendor, direct28%02 17%
204north.comother site14%1 8%0
aaihs.orgother site14%01 8%
americascuisine.comdirectory14%01 8%
amex-dining-explorer.comdirectory14%01 8%
barthubbard.comother site14%01 8%
bringmethat.commarketplace
An online food delivery marketplace aggregating multiple restaurants.
14%01 8%
cash.appvendor, direct14%01 8%
coffeecrawls.comother site14%01 8%

20 more destinations with fewer answers each are in the JSON.

By assistant

What each assistant does in Charlotte cafes and bars

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-flash (12).

Places named when people ask

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order with each one directly. The table shows how many of the places it named came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, or with no link at all.

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT100%0%0%0%32
Gemini88%0%0%13%40
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-19. A place in this index links to its report. A place with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. "No link" means the assistant named the place but didn't link its site. Each question links to the full list of places named.

QuestionChatGPTGemini
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.Sugar & Sip own site
Coco & the Director own site
Community Matters Cafe own site
Waterbean Coffee own site
Coco and the Director own site
Queen City Grounds own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Folia own site
Dot Dot Dot own site
Blue Door own site
The Crunkleton no link
Vibe & Cocktails own site
Idlewild own site
Dot Dot Dot own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Night Swim Coffee own site
Giddy Goat Coffee Roasters own site
Smelly Cat Coffeehouse & Roastery own site
HEX Coffee, Kitchen & Natural Wines own site
Enderly Coffee Co own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Picasso’s Sports Pub own site
STATS Charlotte own site
Courtyard Hooligans own site
Blinders Sports Lounge own site
Clutch Kitchen & Pour House own site
Dilworth Neighborhood Grille own site
Courtyard Hooligans no link
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?The Asbury own site
Rosemont own site
Make a reservation own site
Café Monte French Bakery & Bistro own site
Church and Union own site
Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Eighty Eights own siteThe Wine Loft no link
Vibe & Music own site
Middle C Jazz own site
Cajun Queen own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Copain Bakery & Provisions own site
Suárez Bakery own site
The Everyday Market own site
Amélies French Bakery & Café no link
The Cake & Coffee own site
Villanis Bakery own site
Suárez Bakery own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Hestia Modern Asian Rooftop own site
Fahrenheit Charlotte own site
Merchant + Trade own site
Nuvole Rooftop TwentyTwo own site
Fahrenheit own site
Merchant & Trade own site
Aura Rooftop own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Coco and the Director own site
Famous Toastery Uptown own site
Angeline’s own site
Community Matters Cafe own site
Famous Toastery own site
Coco and the Director own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Syn Cocktail own site
Aster Cocktail Room own site
The Wine Loft own site
The Crunkleton own site
Dilworth Tasting Room own site
Dot Dot Dot own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Divine Barrel Brewing own site
Edge City Brewery own site
Salud Cerveceria / Salud Beer Shop own site
Resident Culture Brewing own site
Charlotte Beer Garden own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Mother of Dragons own siteMother of Dragons no link
What to expect own site
Luck Factory Games own site
To The Table Board Game Cafe own site
Method

How this is counted

Everything here is counted in answers, using the latest answer from each assistant to each question, asked with web search on. Some questions are the ones people ask ("best pizza delivered right now", "book me a table for Saturday"). The others are three questions about each of the top-ranked businesses in the index: the official website, where to book and where to order. Every link in an answer is read. A destination counts once for each answer that links to it, whether as the place to book or as a source the assistant cited. So each share is the share of answers that link that destination, and the shares don't add up to 100%.

All the businesses' own sites share one row, whatever the business. A booking or ordering vendor on the business's own domain counts as direct. Marketplaces and directories are named. Listing, review and map sites (Tripadvisor, Google Maps, Yelp) count as directories, even where the scanner files them with the marketplaces. Newspapers, magazines, guides, forums and tourism sites share one row. Anything left is listed by its registered domain, and a model sorts each of those unknown hosts once into directory, press, marketplace, vendor, business or other, with the reason shown. Text that only looks like a host because a space is missing ("them.here") is dropped. Business names are matched against the index. A place that isn't in the index links to a scan of its site, if the assistant gave one.

Updated 2026-11-08. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.