--- title: Zurich in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/zurich/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 · Zurich, CH # Zurich in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 870 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 679 reachable. 42% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 51% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 214 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 870 sites scanned 42% turn an AI crawler away 51% book or order on their own domain 214 score A or B Across 1025 scanned websites for restaurants and fast food in Zurich, 770 were reachable and 255 were unreachable from our scanner. In terms of overall performance, 76 sites earned an A, 168 a B, 217 a C, 181 a D, and 383 an F, meaning 244 sites or 24% of the scanned total achieved an A or B together. Looking at crawler access, 326 reachable sites or 42% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 15 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For guest interactions, 387 sites or 50% of the reachable sites take a direct booking or order, with 296 on the business's own site, 91 through a vendor on the business's own site, 40 only through a marketplace, 88 through an unrecognised third party, and 255 offering no booking or ordering path. Im Oktober 2026 wurden 1025 Websites von Restaurants und Fast-Food-Betrieben erfasst, wovon 770 erreichbar und 255 nicht erreichbar waren. Von den erreichbaren Seiten weisen 326 oder 42% mindestens einen KI-Crawler am Netzwerkrand ab, während 15 Seiten einen KI-Crawler in der robots.txt blockieren. Eine direkte Buchung oder Bestellung auf der eigenen Domain ermöglichen 387 Websites, was 50% der erreichbaren Seiten entspricht, während 40 Betriebe dies nur über einen Marktplatz anbieten und 255 Seiten keinen solchen Pfad aufweisen. Bei den vergebenen Noten erreichen 76 Seiten ein A, 168 ein B, 217 ein C, 181 ein D und 383 ein F, womit A und B zusammen 244 Websites oder 24% aller geprüften Seiten ausmachen. 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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