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title: New York in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/2026-10
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 Monthly snapshot · New York, US

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

4,689 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 3,441 reachable. 31% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 59% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 1,738 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

4,689

sites scanned

31%

turn an AI crawler away

59%

book or order on their own domain

1,738

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 4689 websites were scanned, with 3441 reachable and 1248 unreachable from our scanner. Across all scanned sites, 657 received an A, 1081 a B, 714 a C, 477 a D, and 1760 an F, meaning 1738 or 37% earned an A or B together. Looking at the reachable sites, 1051 or 31% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 124 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding direct options, 2046 sites, or 59% of the reachable sites, take a booking or an order on their own domain, with 1404 handling this on the business's own site, 642 through a vendor on the business's own site, 204 only through a marketplace, 402 through an unrecognised third party, and 789 offering no booking or ordering path.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; 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

| F | 1,760 |
| B | 1,081 |
| C | 714 |
| A | 657 |
| D | 477 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 2,221 |
| none | 945 |
| elsewhere | 133 |
| PDF | 125 |
| image | 15 |
| on the page | 2 |

Direct booking or ordering

| own site | 1,404 |
| none | 789 |
| vendor on own site | 642 |
| third party | 402 |
| marketplace | 204 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 1,051 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 124 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 1,248 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 3,441 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](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [the live index](https://directindex.org/city/new-york) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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