# checkin Café & Bar: Agent-Direct Score D (54.9%)

Site: https://checkin-cafe.de
Report: https://directindex.org/r/checkin-cafe.de
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
checkin Café & Bar is hard for agents to use.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of checkin Café & Bar. It can read what checkin Café & Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through eventfrog.de.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.checkin-cafe.de/#mobile-menu-toggle
- Phone: +4920874067505

## What to fix first
- **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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Live fetches as ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "checkin Café & Bar",
  "url": "https://checkin-cafe.de",
  "telephone": "+4920874067505",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Brunshofstraße 1",
    "postalCode": "45470",
    "addressLocality": "Mülheim an der Ruhr"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4071095,
    "longitude": 6.9394163
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Fr 11:00-17:00; Sa,Su 09:30-18:00; Mo off",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:30",
      "closes": "18:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.checkin-cafe.de/#mobile-menu-toggle"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# checkin Café & Bar

> restaurant in Brunshofstraße 1 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen. Phone +4920874067505.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.checkin-cafe.de/#mobile-menu-toggle

## Opening hours

Tu-Fr 11:00-17:00; Sa,Su 09:30-18:00; Mo off

## About

- Website: https://checkin-cafe.de
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
164 of 337 in Essen. Top 49% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 94% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 91% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 46% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 23% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Liebfrauenhof (F, 1392 m, https://directindex.org/r/liebfrauenhof.de); Melandis (F, 1943 m, https://directindex.org/r/melandis.de); Road Stop (F, 2150 m, https://directindex.org/r/roadstop-essen.de); Pantheon (D, 2254 m, https://directindex.org/r/pantheon-muelheim.de); Steakhouse "Sierra Nevada" im Krug zur Heimaterde (B, 2802 m, https://directindex.org/r/steakhouse-sierranevada.com); Walkmühlen-Restaurant (C, 2828 m, https://directindex.org/r/walkmuehlen-restaurant.de); Bootshaus (D, 3101 m, https://directindex.org/r/muelheimer-rg.de); Rauchs (D, 3184 m, https://directindex.org/r/rauchs-restaurants.de); Zur Post (F, 3235 m, https://directindex.org/r/zurpost-muelheim.de); Athos (F, 3264 m, https://directindex.org/r/athos-essen.de).

## What assistants answer
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.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 59% (31% A or B, 38935 sites); This site 54.9%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/checkin-cafe.de/agent-view

## Businesses like checkin Café & Bar in Essen

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Essen | 337 | 52% | 27% | 54.9% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Essen | 123 | 61% | 36% | 54.9% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Essen: Finster (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/dunkelrestaurant-finster.de); Ristorante Acquario (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/acquario.de); Zwölf Apostel am Staadt Essen (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/zwoelfapostel-essen.de); Savarona (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-savarona.de); Zumbinos (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/catering-bottrop.de).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: 4th of 337 in Essen, up from 164th.

## The direct record
What agents get for checkin Café & Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/checkin-cafe.de
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.checkin-cafe.de/#mobile-menu-toggle (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Tu-Fr 11:00-17:00; Sa,Su 09:30-18:00; Mo off (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +4920874067505
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/checkin-cafe.de/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 21.7 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/checkin-cafe.de
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/checkin-cafe.de/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/checkin-cafe.de/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=checkin-cafe.de&force=1