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title: Paris cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/paris-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md
---

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 Monthly snapshot · Paris cafes and bars, FR

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

943 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 716 reachable. 21% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 40% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 249 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

943

sites scanned

21%

turn an AI crawler away

40%

book or order on their own domain

249

score A or B

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 Findings

## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades

| F | 348 |
| C | 184 |
| B | 165 |
| D | 162 |
| A | 84 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 334 |
| none | 288 |
| PDF | 47 |
| elsewhere | 24 |
| on the page | 22 |
| image | 1 |

Direct booking or ordering

| none | 358 |
| own site | 223 |
| vendor on own site | 64 |
| third party | 50 |
| marketplace | 21 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 149 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 14 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 227 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 716 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/paris-cafes-bars) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

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