Waterloo cafes and bars in November 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
37 cafe and bar and pub websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 36 of them could be read. 19% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 53% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 12 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.
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Across the 37 scanned websites for cafes and bars, 36 were reachable and 1 was unreachable from our scanner. Looking at access rules, 7 sites, which is 19% of the scanned sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For menus and price lists, 20 sites offer an HTML page, 6 provide a PDF, and 10 have no menu or price list. Regarding reservations and sales, 19 sites, which is 53% of the reachable sites, take a booking or an order on their own domain, with 13 direct on the business's own site, 6 through a vendor on the business's own site, 3 only through a marketplace, 2 through an unrecognised third party, and 12 offering no booking or ordering path.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-02; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
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How the sites stood at the end of November 2026
| C | 13 |
| B | 7 |
| D | 7 |
| A | 5 |
| F | 5 |
| HTML page | 20 |
| none | 10 |
| 6 |
| own site | 13 |
| none | 12 |
| vendor on own site | 6 |
| marketplace | 3 |
| third party | 2 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 7 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 36 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 37 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
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 November 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.