The Direct Index
Report · Kansas City · scanned 2026-11-13

Black Garlic

blackgarlicrestaurant.com is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuWebsite

Ways to reach Black Garlic directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through toast acting for the business. Report a mistake

3601 Broadway Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111

Languages: English

Nearby, also direct

Places near Black Garlic that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

AI assistants can't open Black Garlic's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

38.5%

25 of 65 points available

–

agent-readiness level

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

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 Kansas City and named 89 places. Black Garlic wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Black Garlic compares

Where it stands

561 of 684 in Kansas City

Top 82% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Jade & Ember F, Antojitos El Paraiso F. Just below: El Maguey Mexican Restaurant F, Galley F.

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 HTML91%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)99%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours66%no
Have an llms.txt36%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 263,486 sites55%25%38.5%
Sites using OpenTable 7,461 sites70%53%38.5%
Sites using Toast 7,911 sites73%62%38.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Peking Chinese chinese21 mFno
Hamburger Mary's american136 mDyes
Panchos mexican370 mDno
Krab Kingz seafood411 mAyes
Teetasty Foods - African Restaurant and Bar nigerian520 mByes
Swifts Cajun Cuisine cajun_and_creole565 mByes
Sama Zama japanese631 mCyes
Browne's648 mCno
Island Spice663 mAyes
My Village-grill Restaurant african745 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Black Garlic in Kansas City

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Kansas City68462%45%38.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Kansas City15467%44%38.5%
Sites using OpenTable in Kansas City2974%69%38.5%
Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Kansas City1571%67%38.5%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete; Booking only through opentable), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 24th of 684 in Kansas City, up from 561st.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (challenge:checking your browser). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  3. Booking only through opentable +5 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

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 Kansas City. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer 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. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. 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 · A plain fetch got challenge:checking your browser; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page. · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

Show the score

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. Show the details