What guests ask the AI
Questions about where to eat and drink are often very specific, which is exactly what assistants are good at handling:
- "Dog-friendly pub with food near Rutland Water?"
- "Somewhere in Cambridge for a birthday dinner for eight, not too expensive?"
- "Best café in Stamford for a gluten-free lunch?"
- "Which restaurants in York are open late on a Monday?"
The assistant suggests a few places and usually says why: the food, the setting, the price, the opening times. To be one of those suggestions, the assistant needs to be able to find those facts about you, and they need to be current.
What makes a venue easy to recommend
- What you serve, in words. Cuisine, signature dishes, price range and dietary options (vegan, gluten-free, children's menu) written on the page, not only in a menu image.
- The features people search for. Dog-friendly, garden, parking, step-free access, private room, live music, Sunday roast. If it's true, say it plainly.
- Opening and kitchen hours that match everywhere. Seasonal hours are a common cause of wrong answers. Update your website, Google Business Profile and booking pages together.
- How to book. Whether you take bookings, the best way to do it, and whether walk-ins are welcome.
- Reviews that describe the visit. Responding to reviews helps too; it adds your own voice to what's said about you.
See where you stand first. It's free.
We ask ChatGPT and Google's Gemini the kind of questions your customers ask, then email you whether you were named, roughly where, and who was suggested instead. A person reviews your check before we send it, usually within 2 working days.
Get my free checkCommon gaps worth checking
Hospitality businesses change more often than most: new menus, new chefs, new owners, winter hours. Every change leaves old information somewhere online. A common pattern is an assistant describing a previous owner's menu or saying you're closed on a day you now open. Another is a venue known locally by a nickname that appears nowhere on its own website.
It's worth asking an assistant about your venue by name now and then, to see what it believes. Our guide to checking what ChatGPT says about you shows how to do that fairly.
What the free check tells you
We put guest-style questions about your kind of venue and your town to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. You'll get a plain-English email: whether you were named, roughly where, who was suggested instead, and anything the assistant said about you that looks wrong. Perplexity and other assistants aren't included.
A check is a snapshot of that day, not a ranking or a guarantee. If it shows gaps, the optional next steps are on our pricing page; there's no obligation.
Questions people ask
We're busy with walk-ins. Why would this matter?
An AI assistant is now one of the ways visitors and people planning a night out choose where to go. If they ask for somewhere to eat in your town and you're not named, or you're described with last year's menu, that's a booking you didn't know you missed.
Should our menu be on the website as a PDF?
A PDF is fine for printing, but put the key facts in text on the page too: the kind of food, price range, dietary options and when you serve. Text is easier for assistants to read and quote than a scanned menu.
Do reviews on booking sites count?
Reviews on well-known sites are one of the places assistants can learn about you. Recent reviews that mention specific dishes, occasions or features (dog-friendly, garden, private room) give them something concrete to repeat.
What does the free check include?
We ask ChatGPT and Google's Gemini the kind of questions your guests ask, then email you whether you were named, roughly where, who was named instead and anything that looks wrong. It's free, with no card and no obligation.
