"Where should we eat?" is now an AI question
People ask assistants for specific, local, situational recommendations: "best tacos in Newcastle", "street food near Killingworth tonight", "caterer for a 40th birthday". The assistant builds its answer from sites and profiles it can read and verify. Kitchens with crawlable menus, locations, opening hours and honest descriptions get suggested. Kitchens whose only web presence is an Instagram grid or a JavaScript-only ordering page do not.
The aggregator trap
Many food businesses let a delivery platform or a social profile be their entire web presence. That hands your discoverability to someone else's domain and someone else's margin. A small, fast, AI-readable site of your own puts your name, your menu and your location directly into the systems people now ask, with no commission attached.
What the scan checks for food businesses
All 26 standard checks apply, with weight in this sector on: location and contact signals in crawlable text, Restaurant or FoodEstablishment schema with cuisine and hours, content readable without JavaScript (menu PDFs and image-only menus fail this), and an opening paragraph that defines the business in plain prose. The live AI recall test then asks an assistant what it knows about your kitchen.
What the £299 Fix changes
We add the right schema for your operation, an explicit AI crawler policy, llms.txt, a sitemap, corrected meta data and a crawlable text version of your menu and hours. Fixed within a week, re-scanned to prove the lift.
Find out where you stand
The scan is free, takes about 60 seconds, and shows your score with your three biggest issues. The full 26-check report goes to your inbox.
Scan my site free →Asked often
My customers find me on Instagram. Do I still need this?
Instagram reach is rented and AI assistants cannot reliably read it. A small AI-readable site of your own means the systems people ask for recommendations can actually find your menu, hours and location, commission-free.
Does the scan work for a street food van without a fixed site?
Yes. Mobile kitchens are scanned the same way. The fix focuses on making your trading locations, schedule and menu machine-readable so assistants can answer "where is the van today" style questions from your own site.
Can AI assistants really recommend restaurants?
Yes, and they already do, drawing on crawlable websites, reviews and structured data. The free scan shows whether yours is part of the answer or absent from it.