Waseit study · US · collected 2026-09-13
Which restaurants do AI assistants recommend in Chicago?
We asked ChatGPT and Gemini 4 real buying questions about restaurants in Chicago - the way customers actually ask. 21 names came back for this trade in this city.
3 names are cited by more than one assistant, out of 21 found. The leader takes 27% of citations - the top spot is held, but the rest is contested.
The names the assistants cite most
- 1.Alineacited 4 times · by ChatGPT, Gemini
- 2.Smythcited 2 times · by ChatGPT, Gemini
- 3.Girl & The Goatcited 2 times · by Gemini, ChatGPT
- 4.Oriolecited 1 time · by ChatGPT
- 5.Giordanoscited 1 time · by ChatGPT
- 6.Caffe Spiaggiacited 1 time · by ChatGPT
- 7.Lou Malnatiscited 1 time · by ChatGPT
- 8.Portilloscited 1 time · by ChatGPT
Counts are citations across our sampled answers for this trade and city, collected 2026-09-13 via the assistants' APIs. Answers vary between runs - across the whole study, assistants agreed with each other on only 3% of names. A snapshot, honestly labeled, not a permanent ranking.
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Full dataset and method: the 2026 US study (872 answers, 218 trade×city cells) · our methodology