Raleigh in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
243 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 220 of them could be read. 18% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 75% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 132 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
Out of 243 scanned websites of restaurants and fast food in Raleigh for October 2026, 220 were reachable and 23 were unreachable from our scanner. A total of 132 sites earned an A or B together, which is 54% of the scanned sites, while 56 earned an A, 76 earned a B, 39 earned a C, 23 earned a D, and 49 earned an F. Direct booking or ordering on the business's own domain is supported by 165 sites, which is 75% of the reachable sites, with 120 taking booking or ordering on the business's own site, 45 through a vendor on the business's own site, 3 only through a marketplace, 5 through an unrecognised third party, and 47 having no booking or ordering path. For the rest of the findings, 44 sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, 3 block an AI crawler in robots.txt, 170 have a menu or price list as an HTML page, 5 have it as a PDF, 1 has it on another site, 44 have no menu or price list, and when AI assistants were asked where to book or order at the best-scoring businesses, 95% of 60 answers from ChatGPT and 97% of 60 answers from Gemini sent people to the business's own site or a direct vendor.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-31; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 76 |
| A | 56 |
| F | 49 |
| C | 39 |
| D | 23 |
| HTML page | 170 |
| none | 44 |
| 5 | |
| elsewhere | 1 |
| own site | 120 |
| none | 47 |
| vendor on own site | 45 |
| third party | 5 |
| marketplace | 3 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 44 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 3 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 23 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 220 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 243 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
Where assistants sent people in October 2026
For the top-ranked businesses, each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order. Each business and question counts once, with the latest answer before the month ended.
| Assistant | Own site or direct vendor | Marketplace | Directory | Nowhere useful | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 95% | 3% | 0% | 2% | 60 |
| Gemini | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 60 |
Asked the way people ask
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 94% | 2% | 0% | 5% | 65 |
| Claude | 69% | 6% | 5% | 20% | 64 |
| Gemini | 92% | 3% | 0% | 5% | 66 |
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.