# 9 Muses Bar & Grill: Agent-Direct Score F (27.7%)

Site: https://www.9museschicago.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/9museschicago.com
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
9 Muses Bar & Grill is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of 9 Muses Bar & Grill, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://www.toasttab.com/9muses (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.9museschicago.com/menu
- Phone: +1-312-902-9922

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "9 Muses Bar & Grill",
  "url": "https://www.9museschicago.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-312-902-9922",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "South Halsted Street 315",
    "postalCode": "60661",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.8774854,
    "longitude": -87.6470741
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 11:00-02:00; Sa 12:00-03:00; Su 12:00-02:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "03:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "greek",
    "drinks"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.9museschicago.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.toasttab.com/9muses",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: The site could not be read at all
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away; No structured data for the business

## Where it stands
1114 of 1524 in Chicago. Top 73% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 51% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Ithaki Estiatorio (F, 31 m, https://directindex.org/r/ithakichicago.com); Athena Greek Restaurant (A, 144 m, https://directindex.org/r/athenachicago.com); Greek Islands (B, 171 m, https://directindex.org/r/greekislands.net); LÝRA (B, 1042 m, https://directindex.org/r/lyrarestaurant.com); Beatrix Fulton Market (F, 1063 m, https://directindex.org/r/beatrixrestaurants.com); Greek Corner Gyros (D, 3496 m, https://directindex.org/r/greekcornergyros.com).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 58% (35% A or B, 3255 sites); Sites using Toast 74% (63% A or B, 1884 sites); This site 27.7%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/9museschicago.com/agent-view

## Businesses like 9 Muses Bar & Grill in Chicago

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 1524 | 50% | 39% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Wix in Chicago | 65 | 51% | 25% | 27.7% |
| Sites using Toast in Chicago | 213 | 73% | 59% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Toast in Chicago | 16 | 49% | 31% | 27.7% |

The best of the sites built with Wix and using Toast in Chicago: Caffè Oliva concession (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/caffeoliva.com); Libanais (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/libanaischicago.com); Kale My Name (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/kalemyname.com); La Victoria (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/lavictoriachicago.com); Jerry's Sandwiches (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/jerryssandwiches.com).

With the two fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 148th of 1,524 in Chicago, up from 1114th.

## The direct record
What agents get for 9 Muses Bar & Grill, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/9museschicago.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://www.toasttab.com/9muses (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://www.9museschicago.com/menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Fr 11:00-02:00; Sa 12:00-03:00; Su 12:00-02:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-312-902-9922
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/9museschicago.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/9museschicago.com/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Toast): yes
- Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/9museschicago.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/9museschicago.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=9museschicago.com&force=1