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title: Cork: 54% of restaurants and fast food websites take a booking or an order from an AI agent directly · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/editions/2026-q4/press/cork
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 Press release · The Direct Index, Q4 2026 · preview, data to 2026-10-15

# Cork: 54% of restaurants and fast food websites take a booking or an order from an AI agent directly

Cork, 2026-10-15

The Direct Index, an independent measurement of whether AI assistants can find, read and act on a business's own website, published its Q4 2026 edition today, as a preview with data to 2026-10-15. In Cork it scanned every restaurants and fast food business with a website of its own: 133 sites, 99 of them reachable.

Of the reachable sites, 42% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, almost always a hosting firewall the owner never chose. 54% take a booking or an order on their own domain; the rest hand that to a marketplace or offer nothing an agent can act on. 47 sites score A or B. That places Cork 19 of 57 restaurants and fast food indexes in the edition, ranked by the share of sites that take bookings or orders directly.

Flipdish is the booking or ordering vendor behind most direct channels in Cork, on 2 sites.

The assistants have not been asked about Cork yet; the next edition will say where ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini send people.

[Quote from Antonio Curado, founder of The Direct Index, Brussels. Two sentences on what the number means for owners in Cork.]

The Direct Index is built by Antonio Curado, an engineer based in Brussels. The method is public, the data is open (ODbL) and nothing in the ranking is for sale. Every business in the index has a page with its findings, a free rescan and a badge. The Cork index: https://directindex.org/city/cork. The edition: https://directindex.org/editions/2026-q4. The method: https://directindex.org/methodology. The data: https://directindex.org/data. Contact: hello@directindex.org.

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