The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Chicago cafes and bars, US

Chicago cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

921 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 626 reachable. 38% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 51% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 227 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

921

sites scanned

38%

turn an AI crawler away

51%

book or order on their own domain

227

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F409
C170
B164
D115
A63
Menu or price list
HTML page332
none253
PDF22
elsewhere16
image3
Direct booking or ordering
none251
own site181
vendor on own site138
third party47
marketplace9
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge240
Block one in robots.txt23
Unreachable from our scanner295

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 626 reachable sites.

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 · the live index · all cities.