Waseit

Waseit study · UK · collected 2026-07-31

Which restaurants do AI assistants recommend in Manchester?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 6 real buying questions about restaurants in Manchester - the way customers actually ask. Every answer named specific businesses: 33 names came back for this trade in this city.

The names the assistants cite most

  • 1.Hawksmoorcited 4 times · by openai, gemini, perplexity
  • 2.Manacited 3 times · by openai, gemini, perplexity
  • 3.The Frenchcited 3 times · by openai, gemini
  • 4.Dishoomcited 3 times · by openai, gemini
  • 5.El Gato Negrocited 3 times · by openai, perplexity
  • 6.Erstcited 2 times · by gemini, perplexity
  • 7.Skofcited 2 times · by perplexity
  • 8.Adam Reid at The Frenchcited 2 times · by perplexity

Counts are citations across our sampled answers for this trade and city, collected 2026-07-31 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 labelled, not a permanent ranking.

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Restaurants in other cities

Other trades in Manchester

Full dataset and method: the 2026 UK study (1464 answers, 244 trade×city cells) · our methodology