The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · New York, US

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

4,873 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 3,384 reachable. 33% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 58% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 1,741 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

4,873

sites scanned

33%

turn an AI crawler away

58%

book or order on their own domain

1,741

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F1,972
B1,083
C676
A658
D484
Menu or price list
HTML page2,091
none1,031
elsewhere131
PDF116
image13
on the page2
Direct booking or ordering
own site1,342
none844
vendor on own site609
third party394
marketplace195
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge1,108
Block one in robots.txt126
Unreachable from our scanner1,489

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 3,384 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.