Restaurant AI Search

Get your restaurant into the answers diners use to choose.

Schmitdy runs AI search as a measured restaurant growth channel. We find the questions where your venues are missing, repair the first-party record, earn the outside proof engines rely on, and track the path from recommendation to booking or enquiry.

For single venues and multi-site groups · English and German delivery · No visibility guarantees

Schmitdy's dolphin operating an AI search control desk beside a restaurant on a harbour quay

What the market says

Diners are asking AI. Most restaurants still supply scattered evidence.

22%of surveyed US consumers had used ChatGPT or Gemini to help choose a restaurant in DoorDash's 2026 study.
45%of US adults surveyed by BrightLocal had used AI for a local recommendation in 2026.
97%of those AI users sometimes checked the answer against real reviews.
2,138restaurant answers in Schmitdy's July 2026 London visibility index.

These figures describe specific US surveys and one Schmitdy London measurement window. They do not prove demand for every venue or guarantee a result. Sources: DoorDash, BrightLocal, and Schmitdy's UK index.

The operating model

Four evidence layers. One commercial outcome.

A restaurant is easier to recommend when an engine can retrieve a clean venue record, understand why it fits the question, confirm the claim elsewhere, and see current local consensus. We work the weakest layer first.

Schmitdy's measurement instruments tracking restaurant evidence and answer movement

Crawl and venue identity

One canonical page per venue, accessible HTML, accurate hours, menu, contact details and Restaurant schema that matches the visible page.

Buyer-question coverage

Direct answers for real choices such as neighbourhood, price, dietary needs, access, group size, occasion and booking constraints.

Independent source proof

Relevant editorial, guide, listing and community sources selected from what the engines actually retrieve for your city and cuisine.

Measurement to pipeline

A fixed prompt set, source use, answer position, AI-referred sessions, qualified enquiries and booked calls read together over time.

What we ship

The work changes with the evidence, not with a content quota.

Repair the restaurant record

We fix venue pages, menus, schema, canonical signals, internal links and listing conflicts. Multi-site groups get a location-level entity map, not one blended brand page.

  • Live technical and content changes, with mobile and production QA
  • English and German parity where the locale is published
  • Measurement events tied to the real booking or enquiry path
A restaurant source record being restored

Create evidence worth retrieving

We commission the right page, guide, data study or free tool only after mapping the prompt and source gap. Every material article receives deep source research, original visuals and independent review.

  • Owned guides and local studies designed around specific buyer questions
  • Cover art plus at least two argument-specific body visuals
  • Claims linked to sources, limits and measurement windows
Evidence-led restaurant publishing pack

Earn the right outside mentions

We target relevant publications, guides and creators that engines already trust. The pitch is built around a real editorial idea, never a request to add a logo to a list.

  • No competitor pitching
  • Research and tailoring per editor or creator
  • Three strong follow-ups across two weeks when the target stays relevant
Restaurant editorial idea prepared for a relevant publication

Questions we measure

Visibility only matters on questions a good customer would ask.

Occasion

Where should I book a quiet anniversary dinner near SoHo for about $90 per person?

Constraint

Which Manhattan restaurant can seat 12, has serious vegetarian options and step-free access?

Comparison

Gramercy Tavern or Union Square Cafe for a client dinner where conversation matters?

We also keep brand facts, local discovery and venue comparisons separate. One favorable screenshot is not a trend.

Marco Lobo

Operator, not category tourist

Built by a founder who has scaled products, teams and organic acquisition.

Marco helped take Disperse from roughly three people to more than 200 and raise $35 million while building construction AI. At SlideSpeak, he led product and go-to-market work for an AI presentation platform used by more than one million people each month, with organic search and GEO as core growth channels.

  • Commercial decisions stay tied to a measurable customer path
  • Technical, editorial and design work receive specialist QA before release
  • Material releases are challenged independently, repaired and re-tested before they go live

Commercial model

Half the monthly fee follows the agreed result.

Before work starts, we write down the restaurant prompt set, baseline, measurement method, calendar window and two realistic results. The same rules apply for the full 30-day month.

Not a fit: restaurants without control of a canonical website and listings; teams expecting guaranteed recommendations or an immediate PR blast; or businesses whose main need is paid media, revenue management or a new booking stack.

$1,650

per 30-day month

  • $825 to start
  • $825 when either agreed result is reached
  • If neither written result is reached, the result payment is not due
Discuss venue, city and goals

Measurement

We do not call activity an outcome.

Recommendation share

How often the right venue is named across the fixed prompt set, by engine and topic.

Evidence accuracy

Whether hours, menu, location, price and access facts are correct and traceable.

Source movement

Which pages are retrieved and cited before and after each intervention.

Commercial signal

AI-referred visits, diagnostic completions, qualified enquiries and booked calls.

FAQ

Questions restaurant teams ask first.

Can you guarantee that ChatGPT recommends my restaurant?+
No. No agency controls an engine's answer. We can improve the evidence engines can retrieve, measure the prompt set consistently and show whether visibility, accuracy, traffic and qualified demand changed.
Is this different from restaurant SEO?+
The foundations overlap: crawl access, helpful pages, local facts and authority still matter. The operating layer differs because we also measure answer mentions, source retrieval, citation patterns and recommendation accuracy across several engines.
Do you work with a single venue or only groups?+
Both. A single venue usually needs a tight canonical record and a local source plan. A group also needs location-level governance so one weak or conflicting venue record does not blur the whole brand.
How quickly can we see movement?+
Technical and page fixes can ship quickly, but engines and outside sources recrawl on their own schedules. Reviews and editorial proof compound over months. We separate shipped work from observed movement and never promise a fixed recommendation date.
What happens first?+
We establish a fixed baseline across the restaurant questions that matter, inspect the sources shaping those answers, and trace the existing booking or enquiry path. The first action targets the weakest evidence layer closest to commercial intent.

Start with evidence

See where your restaurant loses the recommendation.

Bring one venue, one city and the customer you most want to attract. Marco will show you the prompt, source and conversion gaps worth acting on first.