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Report · Los Angeles · scanned 2026-10-23

China Chef's Express

china-chefs-express-chinese-food.com is largely invisible to agents.

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2040 S Central Ave, Los Angeles 90011 · +12137650188

Nearby, also direct

Places near China Chef's Express that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by China Chef's Express's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.

20%

13 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

6

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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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 Los Angeles and named 154 places. China Chef's Express wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How China Chef's Express compares

Where it stands

3,642 of 4,566 in Los Angeles

Top 80% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Blossom Restaurant and Rooftop F, Cattle & Claw F. Just below: Coca-Cola Freestyle F, Crenshaw Subway Coalition F.

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 HTML95%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours59%no
Have an llms.txt38%no

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Paul's Kitchen chinese1.4 kmFno
Kar Son chinese1.4 kmAyes
Peking Tavern chinese2.2 kmFno
ABC Chinese Fast Food chinese2.3 kmFno
Lite Bite chinese2.4 kmFno
Northern Cafe chinese2.4 kmByes
Uncle John's Cafe american, chinese, vietnamese2.5 kmFno
Triple 8 China Bar & Grill chinese2.8 kmFno
China garden Chinese food chinese3.0 kmByes
Green Bamboo chinese3.0 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like China Chef's Express in Los Angeles

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles4,56650%32%20%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User), the score would be about 81.5%. That would be 762nd of 4,566 in Los Angeles, up from 3642nd.

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. No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points

    There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  3. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User +10 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  4. 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

  5. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. How to fix it

  6. 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

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Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.

Builder: unknown · almost no text without JavaScript · What to paste

Owners

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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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