AI Restaurant Grader: see how your restaurant looks to the world
A free, public AI audit of any restaurant's online presence — Google, reviews, ordering, menu, mobile, hours, social. Lead-gen tool, in-admin self-audit, and monthly automatic check-up.
What is the AI Restaurant Grader?
The Restaurant Grader is a free public tool at ordering.tools/restaurant-grader that scores any restaurant's online presence on 10 dimensions. Drop a name, Google Maps link, or website — Claude Sonnet 4.6 fetches the public data, scores it from A to F, and lists every concrete fix.
For Ordering.Tools customers, the same engine ships as a built-in self-audit at /admin/restaurant-grader and runs automatically once a month. Every red or yellow finding becomes an onboarding task with a deep-link to the fix, so the grader keeps the platform itself improving over time.
Why operators love the grader
Free for everyone
No login required. Anyone can grade any restaurant — bundled free for paying Ordering.Tools customers and visitors alike.
Concrete, not generic
Findings are grounded in your actual data (your Google profile, your homepage, your real reviews). Never invented quotes, never alarmist.
Built-in self-audit
Inside the admin, the same engine runs against your venue and turns each fix into a clickable onboarding task. Most are 60-second fixes.
Monthly auto-check-up
A nightly cron re-runs the audit on every active venue. You get a "your monthly grade is ready" notification with what changed.
How the grader works
Resolve the restaurant
We accept a free-text name + city, a Google Maps URL, or a website domain. Google Places resolves the rest.
Fetch the public footprint
Google profile, last five reviews, homepage HTML, two nearest competitors. One pass, no scraping.
Score across 10 dimensions
Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores Google profile, reviews, ordering, menu, mobile, hours, reservations, social, competitor benchmark. Letter A–F.
Deliver actionable fixes
Every yellow/red finding ships with the exact action — and inside the platform, with a one-click deep-link to the fix.
What's in the audit
The 10-point scorecard
Each dimension scored Green (✓), Yellow (⚠), or Red (✗) — with online ordering and menu quality double-weighted because they're the core ordering value-prop.
- Google Business Profile completeness
- Review volume + freshness vs competitors
- Sentiment + owner-response rate
- Online ordering, menu quality, mobile, hours, reservations, social proof
Public lead-gen flow
A polished public landing at /restaurant-grader captures interest. The first half of the report shows free; the rest unlocks with an email — opt-in, GDPR-safe, single-click unsubscribe.
- Anonymous IP rate-limit (3 per IP per day)
- One audit per restaurant per day (cost protection)
- Email gate at the report's halfway mark
- Super-admin lead inbox at /admin/grader-leads for outreach
In-admin self-audit
Manager+ users hit /admin/restaurant-grader and run the same engine on their own venue. Findings auto-create OnboardingStep cards with deep-links to the relevant admin page.
- Same scorecard, no email gate
- Auto-creates onboarding tasks for red/yellow findings
- Daily cooldown to keep AI cost predictable
- Surfaces in the Getting Started checklist
Monthly auto-cron
A leader-instance cron re-audits every active venue on a 30-day cadence. New findings show up in onboarding — drives discovery of features the operator may have missed.
- Bounded cost (1 audit / venue / month)
- Surfaces drift between Google and your site
- Renews onboarding tasks as data changes
- Triggers operator notifications
Who uses the grader
Independent restaurants
Owner-operators who want a fast, honest read on how their restaurant looks online vs the place across the street.
New venue launches
Pre-launch checklist — make sure the Google profile, hours, photos, and ordering are all set before the doors open.
Multi-location groups
Operations managers run the audit across all venues monthly to spot the one outlier with bad photos or no website CTA.
Marketing agencies
Agencies use the audit as a proposal opener — show the client an honest grade, then quote the fixes.
Investors & franchisors
Quick due-diligence read on a brand's digital footprint before signing or expanding.
Onboarding new customers
On signup, we run an audit and pre-populate the Getting Started checklist. New operators ship complete from day one.
Why Ordering.Tools built the AI Restaurant Grader
Operators are drowning in advice — every blog post says to "improve your Google profile" or "fix your menu" without explaining what specifically is broken. The Restaurant Grader inverts that. We look at your actual public data and tell you the exact fixes, with the relative impact each one will have.
Built on a strict data-first prompt
The scorer is Claude Sonnet 4.6 with a heavily-cached system prompt that forces every finding to be supported by data we provide. No invented reviews. No "fluff" findings. If a dimension can't be evaluated (rural restaurants without a Google profile, for instance), it's reported as UNKNOWN rather than guessed.
Designed for the lead-gen funnel
The first half of the report is free. The second half — including all 10 findings and the action list — unlocks with an email. Captures land in the super-admin lead inbox, where ops can sort by grade, follow up, and mark conversions.
A built-in onboarding loop
For paying customers the same engine runs as a self-audit and a monthly cron. Each red or yellow finding becomes an OnboardingStep card with a deep-link to the platform feature that fixes it. Over time the audit improves the venue itself, and the operator sees their grade tick up.
Grade your restaurant in 30 seconds
No login, no credit card. Just drop a name or website and see your grade.