Compare · restaurants and fast food · as of 2026-10-14
Edinburgh or Manchester: whose businesses can AI agents use?
Edinburgh: 465 business websites scanned, 67% take a booking or an order on their own site, 23% turn an AI crawler away, 46% score A or B. Manchester: 266 business websites scanned, 57% take a booking or an order on their own site, 28% turn an AI crawler away, 41% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.
| Edinburgh | Manchester |
|---|
| Business websites scanned | 465 of 531 with a site | 266 of 313 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 67% of 387 reachable | 57% of 221 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 23% of 387 reachable | 28% of 221 reachable |
| Score A or B | 46% 214 sites | 41% 110 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 | Edinburgh | Manchester |
|---|
| HTML page | 59% 228 | 65% 143 |
| none | 28% 110 | 27% 59 |
| PDF | 9% 35 | 7% 15 |
| elsewhere | 3% 12 | 2% 4 |
| image | 1% 2 | 0% 0 |
Direct booking or ordering | Edinburgh | Manchester |
|---|
| own site | 58% 225 | 51% 113 |
| none | 25% 95 | 37% 82 |
| vendor on own site | 9% 33 | 5% 12 |
| marketplace | 5% 21 | 3% 6 |
| third party | 3% 13 | 4% 8 |
Site builder | Edinburgh | Manchester |
|---|
| Unknown | 40% 155 | 50% 110 |
| WordPress | 40% 153 | 35% 77 |
| Squarespace | 13% 49 | 6% 14 |
| Wix | 4% 15 | 4% 8 |
| Webflow | 2% 8 | 3% 7 |
| Shopify | 1% 5 | 0% 1 |
| Weebly | 0% 1 | 2% 4 |
Booking and ordering vendors
Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (387 in Edinburgh, 221 in Manchester). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.
Month by month
Edinburgh / Manchester, month by month
Each cell reads Edinburgh / Manchester. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Edinburgh, Manchester.
| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
|---|
| October 2026 so far | 531 / 312 | 67% / 57% | 23% / 28% | 214 / 110 |