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Dave & Buster's

daveandbusters.com · Travel · PLAY

Ranked 32 of 2,047 companies in the study

48Overall score
  • Visibility42
  • Citations6
  • Sentiment74
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness43
What this means for Dave & Buster's

AI assistants name Dave & Buster's in 38.3% of answers, more often than the typical company in the travel sector. Its overall score is 48 out of 100, ranking 32nd of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Dave & Buster's. AI assistants named it in 23 of 60 answers (38.3%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Dave & Buster's ranks 14 of 75 in its sector.

Named by AI in
38.3%
23 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
46.9%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
2 of 75
by overall score, where the typical travel company scores 37
How Dave & Buster's compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
42

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
6

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
74

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
43

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with travel

75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score48
Ranks 2 of 75. Typical company: 37
Named in answers38%
Ranks 14 of 75. Typical company: 22%
AI readiness43
Ranks 2 of 75. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are fun dinner ideas for adults that include arcade gaming and watching sports?”

For a fun adult dinner that combines arcade gaming and sports watching, you have a couple of great options:

1. Head to an Arcade Bar or Entertainment Venue:

Many establishments are specifically designed for this combination, offering a seamless experience of dining, gaming, and sports viewing.

What to expect: These places often feature a wide array of classic and modern arcade games, pinball machines, and sometimes even console gaming or other activities like bowling or laser tag. They also typically have numerous TVs to catch sports, and a full menu with craft beers, cocktails, …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Main Event7Punch Bowl Social1Round1 Bowling & Amusement1
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Dave & Buster's
52.3%
Main Event
22.7%
Chuck E. Cheese (for families with kids)
15.9%
Punch Bowl Social
6.8%
Round1 Bowling & Amusement
2.3%
GameWorks
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
11/15
Claude
5/15
Perplexity
4/15
OpenAI
3/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
25 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPartly met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
63 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPassed

    Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 37 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.daveandbusters.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets rules for 1 AI crawler by name. All others follow its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebot*partly
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

daveandbusters.com (its own website)
41
justdial.com
41
atly.com
26
chuckecheese.com
16
mainevent.com
12
reddit.com
11
youtube.com
8
emporiumarcadebar.com
7
wintrustsportscomplex.com
7
latestcost.com
6

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (12 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What are fun dinner ideas for adults that include arcade gaming and watching sports?
  • Alternatives to arcade restaurant entertainment venues for group game nights
  • Sports bar and grill vs arcade entertainment center: Which is better for birthday parties?
  • Best adult-friendly arcade and restaurant venues for a group night out
  • How much do arcade game credits typically cost at entertainment venues with a bar and restaurant?
  • Best arcade and bar hotspots for weekend entertainment in the US
  • What to do if an arcade game eats your credits at a restaurant entertainment center?
  • Is it worth booking a party package at an arcade restaurant entertainment venue?
  • Arcade-only venues vs arcade restaurants: Which offer better value for groups?
  • Best places to host a corporate event with arcade games and sports viewing
  • Are unlimited play cards at arcade and dining venues worth the cost for families?
  • What’s the average price of event packages at arcade and restaurant combo locations?
  • Family-friendly night out alternatives to sports bar arcades
  • How to check your game card balance at an arcade with a dining area?
  • Where can families enjoy arcade games and watch live sports with a meal nearby?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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