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When guests ask an AI assistant for a restaurant recommendation, most venues simply do not come up. Across the restaurants we measure, 58% were never named by any AI answer engine — not once. As guests increasingly ask AI where to eat, the venues it does not know might as well not exist.
AI answer-engine citation checks (Perplexity, and others) — share of venues never named across all prompts · 2026-08 · per-venue: named by any engine at least once, vs never
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When guests ask an AI assistant for a restaurant recommendation, most venues simply do not come up. Across the restaurants we measure, 58% were never named by any AI answer engine — not once. As guests increasingly ask AI where to eat, the venues it does not know might as well not exist.
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