--- title: Zurich cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/zurich-cafes-bars/2026-10 --- [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 · Zurich cafes and bars, CH # Zurich cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 377 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 285 reachable. 43% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 39% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 42 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 377 sites scanned 43% turn an AI crawler away 39% book or order on their own domain 42 score A or B Our scan of 377 cafes and bars websites found 285 reachable and 92 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at results for reachable sites, 122 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 43% of the reachable sites, while 4 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For guests wanting to plan ahead, 110 sites take a direct booking or order on their own domain, which is 39% of the reachable sites, though 189 sites show no menu or price list and 147 have no booking or ordering path. Overall grades show A 4, B 38, C 88, D 81, and F 166, with 42 sites earning A or B together, which is 11% of the scanned sites. Im Oktober 2026 wurden 377 Websites von Cafés und Bars erfasst, von denen 285 erreichbar und 92 für den Scanner nicht erreichbar waren. Bei den Noten gab es 4 mal A, 38 mal B, 88 mal C, 81 mal D sowie 166 mal F, womit A oder B zusammen 42 ergeben, was 11% der erfassten Websites entspricht. Von den erreichbaren Seiten weisen 122 mindestens einen AI Crawler am Edge ab, was 43% der erreichbaren Seiten ausmacht, während 4 Seiten einen AI Crawler in der robots.txt blockieren. Eine direkte Buchung oder Bestellung auf der eigenen Website des Business ermöglichen 92 Seiten, während 18 dies über einen Anbieter auf der eigenen Website des Business anbieten, 3 nur über einen Marktplatz laufen, 25 über unerkannte Drittanbieter führen und 147 keinen Pfad für Buchung oder Bestellung haben. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; 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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