When asked for the best online ordering system for restaurants, 6 AI assistants named 5 brands between them this month. Square Online was named most often, followed by Toast and ChowNow. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square Online | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Toast | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| ChowNow | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| GloriaFood | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Square for Restaurants | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Square for Restaurants, Toast, ChowNow, Square Online, GloriaFood.
Choosing the best online ordering system for a small restaurant depends on your specific needs, budget, and the features that are most important to you.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Square Online, ChowNow, GloriaFood.
For a small restaurant, the best online ordering system is usually Square Online if you want the simplest, low-cost setup, or ChowNow if your top priority is commission-free direct ordering and marketing support.
Claude
Named 3 brands, in this order: Square for Restaurants, Toast, GloriaFood.
Here are some top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Square Online, Toast, ChowNow.
DeepSeek
Named 3 brands, in this order: ChowNow, Toast, Square Online.
There's no single "best" system — it depends on your priorities.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: Toast, Square Online.
Choosing the best online ordering system for a small restaurant depends on your specific needs, budget, and the features you prioritize.
The questions asked
- What is the best online ordering system for restaurants for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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