The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Edinburgh, GB

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

531 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 387 reachable. 23% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 67% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 214 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

531

sites scanned

23%

turn an AI crawler away

67%

book or order on their own domain

214

score A or B

Across the 531 scanned business websites, 387 were reachable and 144 were unreachable from our scanner. Looking at grades, 69 received an A, 145 received a B, 80 received a C, 49 received a D, and 188 received an F, with 214 or 40% earning an A or B together. For menus or price lists, 228 use an HTML page, 35 use a PDF, 12 host them on another site, 2 use an image, and 110 show no menu or price list. Among reachable sites, 258 or 67% allow a customer to take a direct booking or order on their own domain, while 90 or 23% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge and 8 block an AI crawler in robots.txt.

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
F188
B145
C80
A69
D49
Menu or price list
HTML page228
none110
PDF35
elsewhere12
image2
Direct booking or ordering
own site225
none95
vendor on own site33
marketplace21
third party13
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge90
Block one in robots.txt8
Unreachable from our scanner144

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 387 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.