Compare · restaurants and fast food · as of 2026-10-15
Boston or Chicago: whose businesses can AI agents use?
Boston: 839 business websites scanned, 66% take a booking or an order on their own site, 35% turn an AI crawler away, 41% score A or B. Chicago: 1,568 business websites scanned, 66% take a booking or an order on their own site, 45% turn an AI crawler away, 38% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-15.
| Boston | Chicago |
|---|
| Business websites scanned | 839 of 930 with a site | 1,568 of 1,730 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 66% of 665 reachable | 66% of 1,150 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 35% of 665 reachable | 45% of 1,150 reachable |
| Score A or B | 41% 341 sites | 38% 603 sites |
Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. Methodology · Markdown · JSON · All cities ranked.
Findings
What the index found in each city
Menu or price list | Boston | Chicago |
|---|
| HTML page | 63% 417 | 65% 751 |
| none | 28% 185 | 26% 295 |
| PDF | 4% 28 | 5% 63 |
| elsewhere | 5% 33 | 3% 36 |
| image | 0% 2 | 0% 5 |
Direct booking or ordering | Boston | Chicago |
|---|
| own site | 43% 285 | 41% 474 |
| vendor on own site | 23% 153 | 25% 282 |
| none | 24% 159 | 22% 258 |
| third party | 7% 46 | 8% 96 |
| marketplace | 3% 22 | 3% 40 |
Site builder | Boston | Chicago |
|---|
| Unknown | 40% 269 | 38% 442 |
| WordPress | 22% 149 | 28% 324 |
| Squarespace | 18% 122 | 17% 195 |
| BentoBox | 10% 64 | 6% 71 |
| Wix | 5% 30 | 3% 32 |
| Webflow | 1% 9 | 3% 38 |
| Weebly | 2% 13 | 2% 27 |
Booking and ordering vendors
Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (665 in Boston, 1,150 in Chicago). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.
Assistants
Where the assistants send people
Asked, with web search on, about the top-ranked businesses (the website, where to book, where to order) and the way people ask ("best pizza delivered tonight"). The share of answers that pointed to the business's own site or a direct vendor. Measured in the cities on the probe schedule; "not asked" elsewhere.
| Assistant | Boston: about a business | Chicago: about a business | Boston: asked the way people ask | Chicago: asked the way people ask |
|---|
| ChatGPT | not asked | not asked | 94% of 34 places | 100% of 31 places |
| Gemini | not asked | not asked | 88% of 32 places | 100% of 36 places |
Month by month
Boston / Chicago, month by month
Each cell reads Boston / Chicago. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Boston, Chicago.
| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
|---|
| October 2026 so far | 930 / 1,729 | 66% / 66% | 35% / 45% | 341 / 603 |