Free check

Is my café website AI ready?

Can ChatGPT read your menu? Paste your café's website address and see, in a few seconds, whether ChatGPT and other assistants can reach your menu, opening hours, phone and address.

Whether an AI assistant can read your café's menu from your website depends first on whether it can reach it. This check looks for a menu on your home page or on the page your menu link leads to, with the prices written as text, not a photo or a PDF, and for a robots.txt that lets the assistants' crawlers in or an llms.txt. You will see the one biggest problem we find, then six checks: your menu, your opening hours, your phone and address, whether AI crawlers are let in, whether Google can show your site properly, and whether it is secure.

We read your site once, the way an AI crawler does, without running JavaScript, and keep nothing: not the address, not the answer. No sign-up, no email.

If you have no website, or yours fails, we have probably already built one for you. Tell us your café's name and we will send you the link.

The six things it checks

  1. A menu an assistant can reach. Your home page, or the first link that says "menu", must be a page with at least five prices written as text. A PDF or a photo of the menu does not count, because most assistants skip them, and a Menu link that leads nowhere does not either.
  2. Opening hours on your site. Your hours written on the home page, the menu page or a visit or contact page, a day next to a time. Better still, as schema.org data in the page, so "is it open now?" gets a real answer instead of a guess.
  3. Phone and address an assistant can read. Your phone number and address as schema.org data, not only as text or a picture.
  4. An llms.txt, or AI crawlers let in. A plain-text summary at /llms.txt, or a robots.txt that does not keep out GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest.
  5. Ready to show up in Google search. Your home page has a title, a description and the setting that makes it fit a phone screen.
  6. Secure, with no dead links. Your site is served over https, and the links on your home page that we try do not lead to pages that do not exist. A link that only turns our robot away is not counted against you.

The first four are the ones we used to test 11 Dublin café websites in Is your café ready for AI assistants?, which also has the code to hand whoever looks after your site.