The Direct Index
Report · Seattle · scanned 2026-10-24

Alem Restaurant

alemrestaurant.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Alem Restaurant directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

4423 Rainier Ave S, 98118-1372, Seattle · 12067233587

Prices: 21 prices on the site, the middle one $12.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Alem Restaurant 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 Alem Restaurant's website. It can read what Alem Restaurant offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2024.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Seattle, 74% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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21 prices on the landing page, the middle one $12.00.

In Seattle, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $15.23.

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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.

The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Seattle and named 140 places. Alem Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Alem Restaurant compares

Where it stands

381 of 1,768 in Seattle

Top 22% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Teriyaki Madness B, 8 Ping Yang B. Just below: Bang Bar B, Bombay Burger B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML92%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours55%no
Have an llms.txt24%no

The top 10% are the 181 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%73.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Delish Ethiopian Cuisine ethiopian1.6 kmByes
Amy's Merkato ethiopian1.6 kmFno
Habesha Cafe ethiopian1.6 kmAyes
Iman ethiopian1.8 kmFno
Kebena Market ethiopian3.6 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Alem Restaurant in Seattle

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Seattle1,76852%33%73.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Seattle33763%38%73.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Seattle

Fogo de Chão A 100% · Foodgod Truffle Fries A 100% · Grappa A 100% · Harried&hungry Catering & Cafe A 95.9% · Duke’s Seafood & Chowder A 95.4%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 37th of 1,768 in Seattle, up from 381st.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Seattle. 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.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about/: nothing new; menu page /menus/dinner/: nothing new; booking page /store/: ordering link (other)

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Alem Restaurant",
  "url": "http://alemrestaurant.com",
  "telephone": "12067233587",
  "address": "4423 Rainier Ave S, 98118-1372, Seattle",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 47.5635608,
    "longitude": -122.288413
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://alemrestaurant.com/store/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Alem Restaurant

> local business (ethiopian) in 4423 Rainier Ave S, 98118-1372, Seattle, Seattle. Phone 12067233587.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://alemrestaurant.com/store/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://alemrestaurant.com/menus/dinner/

## About

- Website: http://alemrestaurant.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Alem Restaurant

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/alemrestaurant.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/seattle/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderalemrestaurant.com/store/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menualemrestaurant.com/menus/dinner/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone12067233587

Stable links that count: /go/alemrestaurant.com/order, /go/alemrestaurant.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /store/: ordering link (other).

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno