The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · New York cafes and bars, US

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

1,672 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 1,096 reachable. 43% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 48% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 443 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,672

sites scanned

43%

turn an AI crawler away

48%

book or order on their own domain

443

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F763
B313
C269
D197
A130
Menu or price list
HTML page604
none426
PDF38
elsewhere25
image3
Direct booking or ordering
none429
own site310
vendor on own site221
marketplace87
third party49
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge467
Block one in robots.txt39
Unreachable from our scanner576

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 1,096 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.