Food news and dining guides
Eater San Francisco (eater.com) scores 79 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Media & Entertainment brands, Food & Beverage brands, in the 66th percentile of 33730 Media & Entertainment brands.
Eater San Francisco is a local edition of the Eater media network, providing food news and dining guides for San Francisco, California. It offers curated restaurant maps, reviews, and recommendations compiled by local editors, aiming to help residents and visitors find trustworthy places to eat and drink. The site positions itself as an authoritative local source for dining information in the San Francisco area.
| Brand Name | Eater San Francisco |
|---|---|
| Domain | eater.com |
| Industry | Media & Entertainment, Food & Beverage |
| Main Competitors | SF Chronicle Food (86/100), San Francisco Magazine, The Infatuation (82/100), Yelp (76/100), Resy (85/100), SFist (90/100), Tasting Table (87/100) |
Moz Domain Authority 87/100 vs category average 51 / leader 100 - a strong backlink profile, so AI systems frequently encounter mentions of the brand.
No Wikipedia presence was found - a major gap, since Wikipedia is among the most heavily weighted sources in AI training data.
The homepage meta description reads "Food news and dining guides for San Francisco, California." (Meta description: 9 words. OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 2 JSON-LD block(s), Breadcrumb/Website schema, og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, Twitter cards, canonical. Adding Organization and FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt mentions GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot - all allowed - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Next.js, WordPress.
Social footprint: verified profiles on YouTube, Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram; no detected presence on LinkedIn, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked September 2026.
When asked "What is Eater?", Claude could identify the brand as of September 2026. Eater is a food and dining news website that covers restaurant openings, closings, industry trends, and food culture in cities across the US and internationally. It's part of Vox Media's network of publications and is known for its city-specific 'Eater' guides and maps. Best known for City-specific restaurant guides and maps, especially its 'Eater Maps' features on where to eat in various cities.
When asked "Best brands similar to Eater?", Claude would recommend Eater San Francisco as of September 2026. It's one of the most widely recognized and trusted sources for restaurant news and dining recommendations, so it would naturally come up alongside similar food media outlets.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
Eater San Francisco's main competitors in Media & Entertainment: SF Chronicle Food (86/100), The Infatuation (82/100), Yelp (76/100), Resy (85/100), SFist (90/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
Eater San Francisco has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 37/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 0, trust 70, recommendation 63). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco offers dining guides, curated restaurant maps, and food news articles covering topics such as new restaurant openings, closings, and trends in the San Francisco food scene.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco delivers food news, restaurant openings and closings, and curated dining guides and maps that highlight recommended places to eat and drink in San Francisco, created by local editors.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco scores 63/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Media & Entertainment options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco presents itself as a trustworthy source because its dining guides and recommendations are vetted and curated by expert local editors, positioning it as an authoritative voice for restaurant information in San Francisco.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco is known for its curated restaurant maps and guides that highlight the best dining options in the city, as well as timely local food news covering openings, closings, and industry developments.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco is used by food enthusiasts, local residents, and visitors to San Francisco who are looking for trustworthy restaurant recommendations and up-to-date dining news.
Sources: Eater San Francisco official site
Eater San Francisco scores 37/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
Eater San Francisco has a weak AI-visibility profile at 37/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is trust (70/100) and its weakest is visibility (0/100). It benefits from a Moz Domain Authority of 87/100 and open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.). The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, no strong Wikidata entry and thin schema.org structured data. In a live check, Claude could already identify Eater San Francisco from memory (September 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
79 in October 2026, down from 94 in September 2026.
Ranked closest to Eater San Francisco: George Eastman Museum (79/100), e-artsup (79/100), EBONY (79/100), Echo24.cz (79/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Zoom (81/100), Znews (81/100).
Category leader: Change.org (97/100).
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