Riyadh: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every restaurant and fast food business in Riyadh that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 28 of 38 distinct websites have been scanned.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)
of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 3 · B 5 · C 4 · D 4 · F 12
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 11 places you can book or order from directly →
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BurgerFuel burgerfuel.com · burger | A 95.4% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | كانتون canton-express.com · chinese | A 88.2% | none | own site | open |
| 3 | Chotto Matte Riyadh chotto-matte.com · japanese, peruvian | A 86.2% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 4 | مايسترو بيتزا maestropizza.com · pizza | B 84.6% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 5 | Beefbar beefbar.com | B 75.4% | elsewhere | vendor on own site | open |
| 6 | Coya coyarestaurant.com · peruvian | B 72.3% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 7 | Crazy Pizza crazypizza.com · italian | B 72.3% | HTML page | third party | open |
| 8 | سلطان دي لايت برجر sultandb.com | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 9 | Myazu myazu.com · japanese | C 66.2% | elsewhere | own site | open |
| 10 | Sha Shawarma As Sahafah (King Fahad Rd.) | شا شاورما الصحافة (طريق الملك فهد) shaa.com.sa | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 11 | Kayzo kayzo.com | C 58.5% | elsewhere | vendor on own site | open |
| 12 | Signor Sassi signorsassi.sa · italian | C 58.5% | HTML page | third party | open |
| 13 | فلافل ثمار themarfoods.com · arab | D 53.8% | HTML page | none | open |
| 14 | Domino's Pizza - دومينوز بيتزا dominos.sa · pizza | D 50.6% | none | none | open |
| 15 | San Carlo Cicchetti sancarlocicchetti.sa · italian | D 49.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 16 | سالدوتش saldwich.com | D 43.5% | none | open | |
| 17 | Burger King burgerking.com.sa · burger | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 18 | Baskin Robbins baskinrobbins.com · ice_cream | F 33.8% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 19 | The Pancake House thepancakehouse.com | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 20 | Macboos Restaurant rf.gd · arab, chicken, meat, asian, international | F 29.2% | HTML page | none | blocked |
| 21 | TOPKAPI Tahlia topkapirest.com · international | F 20% | none | none | open |
| 22 | بيت الشواية shawayahouse.com | F 15.4% | none | none | blocked |
| 23 | الطازج altazaj.sa · chicken | F 9.2% | none | third party | blocked |
| 24 | Bukhara Alhara order.sa | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
| 25 | Usta Asim ustaasim.com · shawarma | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
Show all 28
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | عالخفيف alkhafeef.com.sa | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
| 27 | ماكدونالدز mcdelivery.com.sa · burger | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
| 28 | ماكدونالدز mcdonalds.com · burger, coffee_shop, american | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
How Riyadh compares
No web address listed: 71% here, against a median of 44% across 168 indexes of restaurants and fast food. This is where the city stands out. It ranks 15 of 168.
Website facts come from 23 of the 28 scanned sites (82%). A row only shows once 300 pages and half of the scanned sites have been read, and four in five of the city's websites have been scanned. Every number, with its method and data →
Every count behind these rows
| HTML page | 10 |
| none | 9 |
| elsewhere | 3 |
| 1 |
| none | 9 |
| own site | 8 |
| third party | 3 |
| vendor on own site | 3 |
| Unknown | 13 |
| Wordpress | 9 |
| Shopify | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 6 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 1 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 4 |
| Didn't answer in time | 2 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 5 |
| No working site (dead address) | 10 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 23 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 28 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 10 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.
Where assistants send people in Riyadh
Of 44 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 98% link a business's own site or its booking software and 16% link a marketplace, most often hungerstation.com. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 43 | 98% |
| Press, guides and forums | press and guides | 20 | 45% |
| Michelin Guide | directory | 6 | 14% |
| hungerstation.com | marketplace | 5 | 11% |
| redro.menu | vendor, direct | 4 | 9% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Riyadh
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 95% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 58 |
| Gemini | 81% | 0% | 5% | 15% | 62 |
Asked on 2026-10-22. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 22 questions, the assistants named 95 different places. This index has 758 businesses. Question by question →
Riyadh, month by month
Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 so far | 28 | 21% | 48% | 8 |
| October 2026 | 28 | 21% | 48% | 8 |
Riyadh, month by month: the chart
From October 2026 to November 2026, the share of sites turning a crawler away stayed at 21%, the share taking bookings or orders on their own domain stayed at 48%, and the number of sites scoring A or B went from 8 to 8 so far.
Riyadh, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the restaurants and fast food index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food this page | 758 | 203 | 28 | A 3 · B 5 · C 4 · D 4 · F 12 |
| cafes and bars | 235 | 23 | 11 | A 0 · B 0 · C 1 · D 5 · F 5 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 43 | 2 | 1 | A 0 · B 0 · C 0 · D 1 · F 0 |
| dentists, clinics and vets | 66 | 7 | 5 | A 0 · B 0 · C 0 · D 4 · F 1 |
| tours, attractions and museums | 18 | 1 | 0 |
165 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Riyadh?
0 of 23 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.