Does ChatGPT recommend your restaurant? A 20-minute test
Guide · GEO and AI · · 2 min · by the Renver team
Quick answer
Summary
Write 10 to 15 questions a guest would ask — by category and neighbourhood, by occasion, and about your restaurant by name — ask them in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Mode in a session with no history, and note whether you appear, in what position, and whether the facts are right. Repeat once a month with the same questions to compare.
“Are we in ChatGPT?” is a question many restaurant owners already ask. The honest answer is: it depends on the question. So testing once is not enough — you need a fixed set of questions and a record.
1. Write the questions
Three kinds, three to five questions each:
- Category + place: “best steak in Vila Madalena”, “cheap Japanese restaurant near Avenida Paulista”.
- Occasion: “restaurant for a birthday with a child in Pinheiros”, “where to have a quick lunch near the courthouse”.
- By name: “what does [your restaurant] serve?”, “is [your restaurant] open on Sunday?”.
Write them the way a guest would — in the language your guests use, with the details. The examples above are from São Paulo; swap in your own neighbourhood and landmarks. For ideas, see the questions guests ask AI.
2. Ask the same way every month
- A private window or a session without history.
- The same device, the same city.
- ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Mode (the story of its launch in Brazil is in Portuguese); Perplexity too, if you like.
3. Record it in a spreadsheet
| Question | Platform | Appears? | Position | Facts correct? | Sources cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| best steak in Vila Madalena | ChatGPT | Yes | 3rd | Wrong opening time | Google Maps, blog X |
4. Read the result
- Does not appear for the by-name questions: the AI barely knows the restaurant. Start with the Google profile and the website (five practical actions).
- Appears by name, but not by category: specific facts are missing — dishes, prices, occasions. Replies to reviews that carry facts, and a menu in HTML, help.
- Appears with a wrong fact: fix the source it cites. Opening times and prices are good places to start: they are easy to check and easy to correct.
At Renver, a fixed set of questions is chosen together with the restaurant and repeated every month, once the data source is connected. It is a measurement of selected questions, not a complete picture of what every AI says — and it is how we show what changed without promising what nobody controls. See how it works.
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Renver keeps the information complete and the same everywhere and, once the data source is connected, measures where the restaurant appears, with no promise of position.
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