AI visibility for restaurants, pubs and bars
Be the place AI suggests for dinner tonight
People ask ChatGPT and Google's AI where to eat, and get a short list back. We find out whether your venue is on it, fix what keeps you off, and track it every month.
Why it matters
Diners ask for one recommendation, not a list of links
Diners ask assistants very specific questions: "best ramen near the marina", "somewhere quiet for a business lunch", "halal steakhouse open late", "Sunday roast with a garden". The assistant searches, reads a few pages and names two or three places.
Restaurants are often left out for simple reasons. The menu is a PDF or a photo. Opening hours differ between the website, the Google profile and a delivery app. The neighbourhood is never stated plainly. And the local food guides the assistant trusts have never featured the venue.
None of that is about how good the food is. All of it is fixable.
Where's good for a birthday dinner with a terrace in JLT?
Popular choices: Bianca Trattoria has a large terrace and handles group bookings, and Ember & Fig does set menus for celebrations.
What we usually find
Why good venues get left out
Menus as PDFs or images
Assistants struggle to read them, so dishes, prices and dietary options are invisible to the question "where can I get…".
No restaurant data
No machine-readable cuisine, price range, opening hours, reservations or address on the site.
An unclear neighbourhood
The site never says plainly which area you're in or what you're near, so you miss "near me" and landmark questions.
Missing from local food guides
Assistants lean on a few local guides, award lists and editorial round-ups. If you're not in them, you're rarely in the answer.
Hours that disagree
Different opening hours on your site, Google profile and delivery apps make assistants cautious about recommending you.
Slow pages on a phone
Diners decide on their phone. Heavy galleries slow the page and hurt both search and AI.
What good looks like
The restaurant AI visibility checklist
The restaurant checklist we work through for every venue.
- Restaurant structured data: cuisine, price range, address, map location, opening hours, reservations and a link to the menu
- An HTML menu with dishes, prices and dietary labels such as vegan, gluten-free and halal, kept current
- Answer sections for the occasions you want: birthdays, groups, families, business lunches, late nights
- Neighbourhood and landmarks stated plainly, the way diners describe the area
- Identical opening hours on your site, Google Business Profile and delivery platforms
- A presence on local food guides and award lists the assistants cite for your area
- A fast mobile site with images sized for the screen and a clear booking button
How we work with restaurants
Check, fix, track
STEP 01
Free check
Up to ten diner questions per venue, run through five assistants from your location, with every answer and source saved.
STEP 02
Fixed-price fixes
Restaurant data, HTML menu, answer sections, speed and listing gaps, quoted per venue before we start.
STEP 03
Monthly tracking
The same questions every month and a one-page report per venue, or for the whole group.
Delivery apps, booking platforms and AI
Delivery and booking platforms often rank above a restaurant's own website, and assistants read them too. That's useful exposure, but the details on those platforms are frequently out of date: last season's menu, old opening hours, a previous name.
We line them up with your website so every source an assistant reads tells the same story, and we make sure your own site is the most complete and current of them all. When the assistant links to you, it should be the place where a diner can book directly.
Groups and multi-venue operators
Restaurant groups face the same problem as hotel groups: assistants need to understand which venue is which. Separate pages for each venue, each with its own address, hours, menu and structured record, linked to the group, make that clear.
We check every venue against the questions for its own neighbourhood, because a rooftop bar in the marina and a family restaurant in the suburbs compete for completely different answers. The group report shows every venue on one page, so you can see where to focus first.
Why doesn't ChatGPT mention my restaurant?
Usually it couldn't find clear, current information that matches the question: cuisine, area, occasion, price, opening hours, dietary options. It then relies on food guides and review sites, and names the places those sources feature.
Does this replace Google Maps and reviews?
No. Your Google Business Profile and reviews matter, and assistants read them. We make sure your own website and the food guides for your area tell the same clear, current story.
Our menu changes every week. Is that a problem?
Not if it's on the page as text. We set up a simple way to keep an HTML menu current, so assistants and search engines can read dishes, prices and dietary labels. A PDF that changes weekly is much harder for them.
We're a group with several venues. Can you handle that?
Yes. Each venue gets its own questions for its own neighbourhood, and the group gets one combined report showing where each venue stands.
Which questions do you test?
The ones diners ask: best places for a cuisine in an area, somewhere for a birthday or a date, Sunday lunch, family-friendly, vegan or halal options, outdoor seating, open late. We agree the list with you first.
Find out where AI sends your diners
Run the live check above, or request the full free check for your venue or group.