Why RestoRank?
Generic SEO guides have no grasp of the restaurant business. Here is why restaurants need a dedicated AI-visibility tool.
A diner asks ChatGPT "where should I have dinner tonight in Lyon?". They get an answer. A list. Three or four names. If your restaurant isn't on it, you don't exist for that customer.
That's already the reality. 44% of travellers use an AI to plan a meal or a trip, and the share grows every month. And yet no restaurateur knows whether they're being recommended. By which model, at what rank, against which competitors. Everyone works blind.
Why SEO tools aren't enough
Ahrefs, Semrush and the rest measure positions on Google. An AI recommendation doesn't work like a Google result:
- No ten blue links. One synthesised answer, two or three names.
- The answer changes with the model (GPT-5, Gemini, Claude), the version, the language, the geography.
- What matters is no longer the backlink. It's whether your entity is consistent across the web, whether you show up on the sources AIs actually read, and whether your structured data is clean.
A generic AI-visibility tool (Otterly, Profound) measures "a brand" in the abstract. It doesn't know that a restaurant has a cuisine, a catchment area, three direct competitors 200 metres down the street. It doesn't know that a link to TheFork costs you a commission, and a link to your own site costs nothing.
What RestoRank does
RestoRank is built for restaurants:
- Diner prompts, not keywords: "best romantic restaurant", "where to brunch", "business lunch near the station".
- Own site vs. aggregator: are the AIs sending your covers to your website or to a booking platform that charges you?
- Real competitors: we detect who the AIs recommend in your place.
- Perception: which attributes come up. Cuisine, atmosphere, service, view, value for money.
- Optimisation: a concrete action plan (Google Business Profile, schema.org, reviews, FAQ) to move up.
The window is narrow
AIs are rewriting how people choose a restaurant, right now. The first to see how they're perceived, and to fix what needs fixing, build a lead the rest will spend months catching up on.
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