The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Salt Lake City, US

Salt Lake City in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

310 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 286 of them could be read. 20% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 70% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 150 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.

310

sites scanned

20%

turn an AI crawler away

70%

book or order on their own domain

150

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 310 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned, with 286 reachable and 24 unreachable from our scanner. In the overall grades, 70 earned an A, 80 received a B, 56 got a C, 40 were graded D, and 64 received an F, meaning 150 sites or 48% of the scanned sites achieved an A or B together. Looking at menus and price lists, 201 sites present them as an HTML page, 9 provide them as a PDF, 1 displays them as an image, 12 host them on another site, and 63 offer no menu or price list. For guests wanting to reserve or purchase, 201 sites or 70% of the reachable sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, with 134 direct on the business's own site, 67 direct through a vendor on the business's own site, 12 only through a marketplace, 15 through an unrecognised third party, and 58 offering no booking or ordering path.

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

Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
B80
A70
F64
C56
D40
Menu or price list
HTML page201
none63
elsewhere12
PDF9
image1
Direct booking or ordering
own site134
vendor on own site67
none58
third party15
marketplace12
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge63
Block one in robots.txt9
Unreachable from the scanner24

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 286 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 310 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

Method

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.