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

Burger State

burgerstatekc.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Burger State directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake

8920 Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64114 · +1-816-214 8551

Prices: 11 prices on the site, the middle one $11.95

Nearby, also direct

Places near Burger State 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 Burger State's website. It can read what Burger State offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through eatburgerstatekc.com.

58.5%

38 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.

The footer says © 2019.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Kansas City, 84% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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11 prices on the landing page, the middle one $11.95.

In Kansas City, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $11.99.

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

Where it stands

How Burger State compares

Where it stands

445 of 683 in Kansas City

Top 65% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: 54th Street Grill and Bar C, Arby's C. Just below: Little Caesars C, Wings 'n Things Express C.

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 HTML91%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)99%yes
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 Squarespace 37,558 sites61%42%58.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Princess Garden chinese30 mFno
Smitty's Garage Burger and Beer burger932 mByes
Charleston's Restaurant american940 mByes
Abelardo's Mexican Fresh mexican940 mByes
Strip's Chicken947 mAyes
Walsh's Corner Cocktail bar_and_grill956 mCno
Chelly's Cafe mexican, breakfast, grill967 mCyes
Hawaiian Bros Island Grill hawaiian968 mByes
Jade & Ember asian990 mFno
Waldo Thai thai1.0 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Burger State in Kansas City

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Kansas City68363%45%58.5%
Sites built with Squarespace in Kansas City5772%58%58.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 24th of 683 in Kansas City, up from 445th.

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. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  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

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 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.

Builder: squarespace · 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.

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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. Show the details