# AI visibility checker for restaurants > Check if ChatGPT names your restaurant when diners in your city ask where to go for brunch, Thai food or a date night, and who it picks instead. Free. Diners ask ChatGPT where to eat, and it answers with a few names. Enter your restaurant, your city and a cuisine or meal. We ask ChatGPT three questions diners ask and show which places it picked. - Page: [AI visibility checker for restaurants](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-restaurants) - Free, with no account and no email. ## How the check works You give your business name, your city and a cuisine, dish or meal diners ask for, and your website if you want a link to it to count. The check asks ChatGPT 3 questions with web search on, the way a customer's question reaches it: 1. Where is the best Thai food in Chicago? 2. Which restaurants in Chicago do locals recommend for Thai food? 3. I am visiting Chicago this weekend. Where should I go for Thai food? (Shown with the page's example values; the check fills in yours.) For each answer it shows whether ChatGPT named your business, who it named instead, and which sites it read. An answer to the same question is shared for 7 days, and the report says when it was given. ## Questions diners ask AI about where to eat Diners ask about a mood as much as a menu: a date, a group, a dog, a budget. Each detail narrows the restaurants that fit. - Where can I get good dim sum in San Francisco without a long wait? - Which restaurants in New Orleans have a private room for a group of 12? - What is a romantic Italian restaurant in Boston for an anniversary? - Which brunch spots in Austin have dog-friendly patios? - Where can I eat gluten-free pizza in Philadelphia? - Which Savannah restaurants take walk-ins on a Friday night? - Is there a good vegan restaurant near downtown Pittsburgh? - Where do locals eat tacos late at night in San Diego? The check asks 3. On Growth, Rankli asks 50 of yours every week on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. ## What ChatGPT reads before it names a restaurant A where-to-eat question sends ChatGPT to search. It reads restaurant sites, reservation pages, local food writing and reviews, then names the places those pages describe for that meal. ### A menu in text, not a photo A menu posted only as a photo or a scanned image gives ChatGPT no dishes to quote. The same menu as text on your site lets it name you when a diner asks for "khao soi" or "bottomless brunch". ### Hours, reservations and price per person Diners ask what is open late, what takes bookings and what fits a budget. Write your hours, how to reserve and a typical price per person on your site, so the answer can include you. ### The occasions you suit Private rooms, a patio, a kids’ menu, a quiet corner for a date. Say which occasions you are good for in plain sentences, and ChatGPT can match you to "anniversary dinner" or "group of ten". ### OpenTable, Tripadvisor and food writers in agreement Reservation sites, review sites and local food writers describe restaurants too. When their hours, address and cuisine match your site, ChatGPT has one version of you to repeat. ## What three questions tell a restaurant, and where they stop - Restaurant answers turn over as places open and close. Growth asks 50 diner questions every week and shows how often your restaurant makes the list. - One cuisine or meal per check. "Brunch" and "date night" are different questions, and a restaurant can win one and miss the other. - The check asks through OpenAI’s API with web search on and no location. A diner asking the app from a hotel lobby can share where they are and see places near them. - It checks the answer for your restaurant’s name and website. A second location or a sister restaurant counts only under the name you enter. ## Questions ### Why does ChatGPT recommend other restaurants in my city? The pages it read describe those places for the meal in the question: the cuisine, the price, the occasion, the hours. If your menu is a photo and your hours live only on a listing, it has little to say about you. Rankli shows each diner question you lose and who wins it, then writes a page that answers it. ### Does ChatGPT read OpenTable, Yelp and Tripadvisor for restaurants? When it searches, it can read any page it is allowed to fetch, and reservation and review sites are pages like any other. Which ones it reads depends on the question. Rankli shows the pages each answer links to, so you see which sites shape the answers in your city. ### What should a restaurant publish so ChatGPT recommends it? Put your full menu, hours, booking link and price per person on your site as text. Add a page for each occasion you want: brunch, private dining, a tasting menu. Keep the facts the same on every listing. Rankli writes those pages from your site and the questions diners ask, and publishes them for you. ### Do reviews from local food writers help a restaurant get named? They add pages that describe you, and ChatGPT reads them when its search finds them. You do not write those articles, but your own pages can state the same facts plainly. Rankli writes the pages on your site for each diner question you lose. ### Is the restaurant check free? Free, and no account or email is needed. For a wider view, the 7-day free trial asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini up to 50 questions about your restaurant and your cuisine. ## Related checks - [AI visibility checker for wedding venues](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-wedding-venues): See whether ChatGPT names your venue when couples ask where to get married in your area. - [AI visibility checker for auto repair shops](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-auto-repair-shops): See whether ChatGPT names your shop when drivers in your city ask where to take their car. - [AI visibility checker for med spas](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-med-spas): See whether ChatGPT names your med spa when clients in your city ask where to book a treatment. - [ChatGPT visibility checker](https://www.rankli.io/tools/chatgpt-visibility-checker): Does ChatGPT recommend your business? 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See if AI starts recommending you. - [How it works](https://www.rankli.io/how-it-works) - [Pricing](https://www.rankli.io/pricing) - [Everything about Rankli, for AI assistants](https://www.rankli.io/llms.txt)