--- title: Rotterdam in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/rotterdam/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Rotterdam, NL # Rotterdam in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 493 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 396 reachable. 35% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 34% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 121 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 493 sites scanned 35% turn an AI crawler away 34% book or order on their own domain 121 score A or B Out of 608 restaurants and fast food websites scanned for October 2026, 492 were reachable and 116 were unreachable from our scanner. Across all scanned sites, 154 earned an A or B grade together, which is 25% of the total, while 125 received a C, 149 received a D, and 180 received an F. For menus or price lists, 292 had an HTML page, 36 used a PDF, 15 hosted it on another site, 14 placed it on the page itself, 2 used an image, and 133 had no menu or price list. Regarding guest interactions, 169 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, representing 34% of the reachable sites, while 165 reachable sites, also 34%, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge. In oktober 2026 zijn er 608 websites van restaurants en fastfood gescand, waarvan er 492 bereikbaar waren en 116 onbereikbaar vanaf onze scanner. Van de bereikbare sites weren 165 sites, oftewel 34% van de bereikbare sites, ten minste één AI crawler aan de rand, terwijl 6 sites een AI crawler blokkeren in robots.txt. Voor reserveren of bestellen gebeurt dit bij 159 direct op de eigen site van de business, bij 10 via een leverancier op de eigen site van de business, bij 51 uitsluitend via een marktplaats, bij 24 via een niet-herkende derde partij, en bij 248 is er geen pad voor reserveren of bestellen. Wat de cijfers betreft kregen 45 sites een A, 109 een B, 125 een C, 149 een D en 180 een F, waarmee A of B samen op 154 uitkomt, wat 25% van de gescande sites is. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. 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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. 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