Restaurants: When guests ask the AI, ‘Where shall we eat?’ — are you mentioned?
'Where shall we eat tonight?' is one of the most common AI search queries. We’ll make sure your venue is mentioned.
Trigger: Your customers are already asking the AI — if you’re not visible, it’ll choose someone else
Which tool determines whether ChatGPT recommends restaurants?
Geoa is a GEO automation platform which helps cafés & restaurants to be found and cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. We measured 187 cafés & restaurants in October 2026: the median is 80 out of 100, and 5 % are effectively invisible to AI crawlers.
Why the traditional SEO is no longer enough for cafés & restaurants:
Restaurants are the most searched-for local category on AI. ‘Good Italian restaurant’, ‘café serving brunch near me’. Yet the vast majority are not mentioned.
What makes the biggest difference to cafés & restaurants?
We measure your domain against 187 others
The same six signals as the panel, measured on your own domain in under a minute. The median among cafés & restaurants is 80 out of 100, and 88 % have no llms.txt at all.
llms.txt
This is the industry's biggest gap: 51 % of the top-scoring cafés & restaurants have it, against 12 % of the whole panel — a 39 percentage-point difference. Next, we take structured data (33 pp) and meta description (22 pp).
Corrections, content and a new measurement
We write the corrections in, deliver content every week and measure again. 5 % of the 187 measured cafés & restaurants are effectively invisible to AI crawlers today.
Do-it-yourself vs. Geoa
You can ask ChatGPT yourself whether your company is mentioned — Geoa does this systematically every week and compares you with the other cafés & restaurants in our industry panel. A panel of 187 companies is the comparison you cannot make yourself in a chat window.
Where Cafés & Restaurants stand in AI search right now
Median across the Nordics: Denmark 80 · Norway 70 · Sweden 80
Geoa measurement, October 2026 — n=187 Danish businesses findable via search. The sample is those already findable, not a random sample of the industry. How we measure.
What makes the best cafés & restaurants different?
The top 20 % in our measurement, against the rest of the industry.
| Signal | Everyone in the industry | Top 20 per cent | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has llms.txt | 12 % | 51 % | +39 pp |
| Contains structured data (JSON-LD) | 67 % | 100 % | +33 pp |
| Has a meta description | 73 % | 95 % | +22 pp |
| Has an H1 heading | 71 % | 89 % | +18 pp |
| Contains at least 150 words of text | 90 % | 100 % | +10 pp |
| Does not block AI crawlers | 97 % | 100 % | +3 pp |
Sorted by largest gap first: for cafés & restaurants it is llms.txt, 39 percentage points between the industry's best and the rest.
What is the situation like in Denmark, Norway and Sweden?
We have measured 187 cafés & restaurants in Denmark, 183 in Norway and 180 in Sweden — the same six signals, three markets.
| Market | Companies surveyed | Median GEO-score | Missing llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 187 | 80 | 88 % |
| Norway | 183 | 70 | 84 % |
| Sweden | 180 | 80 | 81 % |
How do you compare to other cafés & restaurants in your region?
Find your own row. Overall, the 187 companies measured have a median GEO score of 80 — the tables show where your area and your type of website stand against that.
Broken down by region
| Region | Companies surveyed | Median GEO-score | Missing llms.txt | Has structured data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Østjylland | 55 | 75 | 89 % | 60 % |
| Sydjylland | 41 | 75 | 90 % | 59 % |
| Byen København | 32 | 75 | 84 % | 69 % |
| Nordjylland | 30 | 85 | 83 % | 83 % |
| Fyn | 29 | 80 | 90 % | 76 % |
| All of Denmark | 187 | 80 | 88 % | 67 % |
Broken down by city
| City | Companies surveyed | Median GEO-score | Missing llms.txt | Has structured data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| København | 32 | 75 | 84 % | 69 % |
| Aalborg | 30 | 85 | 83 % | 83 % |
| Odense | 29 | 80 | 90 % | 76 % |
| Aarhus | 24 | 80 | 88 % | 75 % |
| Esbjerg | 23 | 80 | 96 % | 61 % |
| Randers | 23 | 70 | 91 % | 52 % |
| Kolding | 18 | 75 | 83 % | 56 % |
| Horsens | 8 | 85 | 88 % | 38 % |
| All of Denmark | 187 | 80 | 88 % | 67 % |
Broken down by the amount of text on the front page
| Text on the front page | Companies surveyed | Median GEO-score | Missing llms.txt | Has structured data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 300 words | 43 | 65 | 91 % | 63 % |
| 300–799 words | 87 | 80 | 90 % | 67 % |
| 800 words or more | 57 | 85 | 82 % | 72 % |
| All of Denmark | 187 | 80 | 88 % | 67 % |
Frequently Asked Questions
It starts at €39 a month. Most people choose a package with weekly content.
People ask ChatGPT, ‘Where shall we eat?’ before they even Google it. If your place is mentioned, they’ll come.
Right. But the AI also looks at your website and LinkedIn. We build on your existing visibility.
Geoa automatically monitors your reviews on Trustpilot, Google and Bing.
60 seconds for your GEO-test. Increased visibility is typically seen within a couple of weeks.
Prices for cafés & restaurants
The price is the same regardless of sector: from €39/month, a 14-day free trial and no credit card required. Auto-fix is included in all paid plans.
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Last updated: 09. October 2026 — The content is updated regularly to ensure it remains up to date and relevant for AI searches.