The Direct Index
Report · Minneapolis cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

Asher's Bar & Grill

ashersbar.com is mostly ready for agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of Asher's Bar & Grill. It can read what Asher's Bar & Grill offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Order directly: order.toasttab.com/online/ashers-bar-and-grill-2-0-2730-w-la through toast acting for the business · Menu: ashersbar.com/ashers-menu-page/

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78.5%

51 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How Asher's Bar & Grill compares

Where it stands

24 of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars

Top 15% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Bulldog B, Alma B. Just below: Fireroast Cafe B, Flashback Cafe & Cocktail Lounge B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 16 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 38,935 sites59%31%78.5%
Sites using OpenTable 1,647 sites66%40%78.5%
Sites using Toast 2,267 sites72%58%78.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Isles Bun & Coffee coffee_shop, pastry1.3 kmFyes
Queermunity Cafe1.3 kmByes
Moona Moono donut, korean1.4 kmCyes
Mosaic breakfast, coffee_shop, local1.4 kmCyes
Curioso Coffee Bar coffee_shop1.4 kmDno
Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse coffee_shop1.4 kmFno
Thesis1.4 kmFno
Green Room1.5 kmCno
Rumba MPLS1.5 kmCyes
Mari's Watch Bar1.5 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Asher's Bar & Grill in Minneapolis cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis cafes and bars16051%26%78.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars3462%26%78.5%
Sites using OpenTable in Minneapolis cafes and bars272%50%78.5%
Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Minneapolis cafes and bars272%50%78.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars

Crooked Pint Ale House A 100% · Mari's Watch Bar A 100% · Day Block Brewing Company A 98.5% · Tom’s Watch Bar A 88.8% · StormKing A 87.7%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Booking only through opentable) the score would be about 95.4%: 6th of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars, up from 24th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through opentable +5 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

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

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Minneapolis cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · menu page /ashers-menu-page/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

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

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)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Asher's Bar & Grill",
  "url": "https://ashersbar.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-952-582-4337",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Lake Street West 2730",
    "postalCode": "55416",
    "addressLocality": "Minneapolis"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 44.9496328,
    "longitude": -93.3152638
  },
  "openingHours": "Su-Th 16:00-22:30; Fr-Sa 16:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday",
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "22:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://ashersbar.com/ashers-menu-page/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/online/ashers-bar-and-grill-2-0-2730-w-lake-st",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Asher's Bar & Grill

> bar or pub in Lake Street West 2730 55416 Minneapolis, Minneapolis cafes and bars. Phone +1-952-582-4337.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/ashers-bar-and-grill-2-0-2730-w-lake-st (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://ashersbar.com/ashers-menu-page/

## Opening hours

Su-Th 16:00-22:30; Fr-Sa 16:00-23:00

## About

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

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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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 an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Asher's Bar & Grill

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/ashersbar.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/minneapolis-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.toasttab.com/online/ashers-bar-and-grill-2-0-2730-w-la vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuashersbar.com/ashers-menu-page/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursSu-Th 16:00-22:30; Fr-Sa 16:00-23:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-952-582-4337

Stable links that count: /go/ashersbar.com/order, /go/ashersbar.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
Toast
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Toast, read 2026-10-15
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. Source. About Toast · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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 businessyes