The Direct Index
Report · Honolulu · scanned 2026-11-12

53 By The Sea

53bythesea.com is hard for agents to use.

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53 Ahui St, Honolulu 96813-5511 · +18085365353

Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one $133

Nearby, also direct

Places near 53 By The Sea that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open 53 By The Sea's website. It can read what 53 By The Sea offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

53.8%

35 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

4 prices on the landing page, the middle one $133.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for 3 questions, including "I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic" in Honolulu, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Honolulu and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 3 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-12
Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-12
A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-11-12

Every place named in Honolulu, question by question.

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Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

Recommended when people ask:
“I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How 53 By The Sea compares

Where it stands

439 of 824 in Honolulu

Top 53% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Toshi's Delicatessen & Restaurant C, Curry House Coco Ichibanya C. Just below: ALOHA AMIGO Island Mexican Cantina D, Chiang Mai D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML92%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours57%no
Have an llms.txt37%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 251,600 sites55%24%53.8%
Sites using OpenTable 6,562 sites69%51%53.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Seafood Connection seafood645 mByes
The Boiling Crab seafood723 mDno
Fumi's Kahuku Shrimp seafood1.8 kmAyes
Kickin Kajun seafood2.0 kmByes
Lobster King seafood2.3 kmByes
Dmm International seafood2.3 kmCyes
Paradise Poke Hawaii At Ilikai seafood2.4 kmCyes
Sea Tiger Wreck seafood2.5 kmAyes
Keeaumoku Seafood sushi, seafood, japanese2.5 kmFno
Legend Seafood Restaurant fish, chinese, seafood2.5 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like 53 By The Sea in Honolulu

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Honolulu82454%35%53.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Honolulu18562%38%53.8%
Sites using OpenTable in Honolulu6368%41%53.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Honolulu2968%41%53.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 8th of 824 in Honolulu, up from 439th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through opentable +12 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

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No one is listed yet to fix this in Honolulu. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • OpenTable works with agents through its partners OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: wordpress · menu page /cuisine/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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