Restaurant reservation software: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank restaurant reservation software by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Reservation platforms used by restaurants to manage bookings, waitlists, seating, guest profiles, and front-of-house demand across channels. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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When buyers ask AI engines about restaurant reservation software, SevenRooms emerges as the clear leader, appearing in 50% of responses. Resy and OpenTable are also frequently mentioned, holding strong positions in the market. SevenRooms' high visibility indicates its prominence and reliability in this category.
The rankings of restaurant reservation software are influenced by the sources AI engines commonly cite. Websites such as tableo.com, restaurant.eatapp.co, and resdiary.com play a significant role in shaping opinions. These platforms, often aggregators or review sites, provide comprehensive insights that contribute to the rankings, highlighting the importance of diverse and reliable data sources.
For buyers evaluating restaurant reservation software, it's crucial to consider recent reviews, third-party validation, and the specific authority of a brand within its subcategory. AI engines often prioritize these factors, offering reliable insights into a product's performance and suitability. This information helps buyers make informed decisions based on what top sources and AI engines value most.
At a glance
What we observed in this category
SevenRooms leads the category with a composite score of 50.0, the only brand where visibility and citation are perfectly aligned at 50.0 percent each. Resy sits just below at 47.5 composite despite having the highest raw visibility in the category at 62.5 percent. That gap between Resy's visibility and SevenRooms' composite score matters because it signals that SevenRooms is both named and trusted as a source, while Resy is frequently mentioned but rarely cited as authoritative content.
The visibility-citation divergence is most extreme at the mid-tier. Tableo (rank 5) has a 25.0 percent visibility score but a 50.0 percent citation rate, meaning AI cites its content far more often than it surfaces the brand by name. The same pattern holds for TouchBistro and ResDiary, both at 12.5 percent visibility against 50.0 percent citation. Tock shows the inverse problem, appearing in 25.0 percent of responses but receiving zero citations, suggesting it is named without its content being used as a source.
Google AI Mode is the top engine for every brand in this dataset, so engine-level differentiation is absent here. The top cited sources list anchors heavily on brand-owned domains (tableo.com, restaurant.eatapp.co, sevenrooms.com) alongside third-party review and comparison sites including hoteltechreport.com and restaurant365.com. YouTube also appears in the top cited sources, indicating that video content plays a role in how AI constructs answers in this category, which is an unusual signal for a B2B software segment.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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Resy 38% → 62% · rank #5 → #2+25pp
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Eat App 12% → 38% · rank #3 → #4+25pp
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Tableo 0% → 25% · rank #13 → #5+25pp
Biggest visibility fallers
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Toast Tables 38% → 0% · rank #4 → #10-38pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
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| 1 |
sevenrooms.com
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50% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
SevenRooms is the only brand matching its visibility and citation rates exactly at 50.0 percent each, giving it a composite score 12.5 points above the next competitor. |
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| 2 |
resy.com
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62% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Resy holds the highest visibility in the category at 62.5 percent but its 12.5 percent citation rate pulls its composite to 47.5, revealing a large named-but-not-trusted gap. |
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| 3 |
opentable.com
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50% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
OpenTable matches SevenRooms on visibility at 50.0 percent but its citation rate of 12.5 percent drops its composite to 38.8, the same citation weakness as Resy. |
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| 4 |
eatapp.co
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38% | 38% | Google AI Mode |
Eat App jumped 25.0 visibility points from the prior period but its citation rate fell 50.0 points simultaneously, suggesting a shift in how AI references rather than endorses the brand. |
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| 5 |
tableo.com
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25% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
Tableo rose 8 ranks from 13th to 5th with a 50.0 percent citation rate that far exceeds its 25.0 percent visibility, making it the category's strongest citation-over-visibility outlier. |
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| 6 |
touchbistro.com
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12% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
resdiary.com
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12% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
tock.com
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25% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
yelp.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
toasttab.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
theforkmanager.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
nowbookit.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
hostmeapp.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
quandoo.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
tablecheck.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
wisely.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
spoton.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
ivvy.com.au
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
simpleerb.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
wisk.ai
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on restaurant reservation software, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →
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Frequently asked about restaurant reservation software AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in restaurant reservation software?
SevenRooms leads with a composite score of 50.0, the highest in the category, driven by equal visibility and citation rates of 50.0 percent each. Resy ranks second at 47.5 composite despite holding the highest raw visibility score of 62.5 percent.
Which brand has the biggest gap between being named and being cited?
Resy and OpenTable both have 12.5 percent citation rates against visibility scores of 62.5 and 50.0 percent respectively, making them the clearest examples of brands named frequently but rarely used as source material by AI.
What sources does AI cite most for restaurant reservation software research?
The top cited sources include tableo.com, restaurant.eatapp.co, resdiary.com, touchbistro.com, and sevenrooms.com as brand-owned domains, alongside third-party sites hoteltechreport.com, restaurant365.com, and youtube.com.
Which brand has seen the largest AI visibility improvement recently?
Tableo moved from rank 13 to rank 5, a change of 8 positions, with visibility rising 25.0 points from 0.0 to 25.0 percent and citation rising 37.5 points in the same period.
Which brand has lost the most AI visibility?
Toast Tables fell from rank 4 to rank 10, losing 37.5 visibility points to reach 0.0 percent visibility, while its citation rate also dropped 12.5 points to just 12.5 percent.
How does the category average compare to the top-ranked brand?
The category average visibility and citation are both 14.4 percent, while SevenRooms sits at 50.0 percent on both metrics, putting the leader roughly 3.5 times above the category average on each measure.