The Direct Index
Report · Toronto · scanned 2026-10-19

Canteen

canteen.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Canteen directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-19. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mo-Sa 11:00-20:30

Spadina Avenue 280 M5T 3A5 Toronto · +1-416-593-6888

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Canteen's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. 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 →

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 Toronto and named 106 places. Canteen wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Canteen compares

Where it stands

741 of 3,392 in Toronto

Top 22% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cali Mexican Grill B, Canis B. Just below: Casa Manila B, Charlie Social House B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt37%yes

The top 10% are the 354 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%73.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Wok Theory chinese41 mBno
Dumpling House Restaurant chinese125 mFno
Swatow Restaurant chinese135 mDno
Taste of China Seafood Restaurant chinese156 mDno
New Hong Fatt BBQ Restaurant chinese219 mByes
Mix2 Grill & Hot Pot chinese250 mDno
Greens Vegetarian Restaurant chinese322 mDno
Qin's Garden asian, chinese532 mDno
Sue Fung's Dimsum Canteen chinese694 mDno
Mom's Pan Fried Bun chinese985 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Canteen in Toronto

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Toronto3,39252%33%73.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Toronto83265%45%73.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Toronto

Aafrien Indian Restaurant A 100% · Creme de la Creme Cafe A 100% · JZ's Pizza A 100% · Kinka Izakaya A 100% · Mangiare Italian Family Dining A 100%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 81st of 3,392 in Toronto, up from 741st.

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. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. 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 Toronto. 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.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new

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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Canteen",
  "url": "http://www.canteen.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-416-593-6888",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Spadina Avenue 280",
    "postalCode": "M5T 3A5",
    "addressLocality": "Toronto"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.6526523,
    "longitude": -79.3985239
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Sa 11:00-20:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "20:30"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "chinese",
    "western",
    "south east asian",
    "malaysian"
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.canteen.com/#/login",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. 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 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 Canteen

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/canteen.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/toronto/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.canteen.com/#/login own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Sa 11:00-20:30 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-416-593-6888

Stable links that count: /go/canteen.com/order 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
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.txtyes
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