The Direct Index
Report · Essen · scanned 2026-10-20

Die Burgerschmiede

dieburgerschmiedeessen.de is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Die Burgerschmiede directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-20. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon closed · Tue–Sun 12:30–21:00

Alte Hatzper Straße 15 45149 Essen · +49 178 8426414

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Prices: 72 prices on the site, the middle one €6.64

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Nearby, also direct

Places near Die Burgerschmiede 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 Die Burgerschmiede's website. It can read what Die Burgerschmiede offers. To book or order, it is sent to Just Eat, a marketplace.

53.8%

35 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.

No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is. In Essen, 8.4% of comparable sites declare one.

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72 prices on the landing page, the middle one €6.64.

In Essen, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is €11.13.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "Best burger in town, and I want to order online" in Essen, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Essen and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Best burger in town, and I want to order online.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-16

Every place named in Essen, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Best burger in town, and I want to order online.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Die Burgerschmiede compares

Where it stands

295 of 694 in Essen

Top 43% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Chefs Atelier D, City Grill Nieding D. Just below: Farina D, Gasthaus Zum Brenner D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain84%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML77%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)81%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours42%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top 10% are the 74 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Just Eat 1,659 sites53%10%53.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Traumkuh burger2.7 kmCyes
Ruff’s Burger burger3.0 kmByes
THE BURGERZ Essen Frohnhausen burger3.2 kmCyes
200g burger3.2 kmCyes
d.bar burger3.5 kmFno
Food Brother burger3.6 kmFno
Doctor T Burger-labs burger4.1 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Die Burgerschmiede in Essen

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Essen69449%20%53.8%
Sites using Just Eat in Essen3051%10%53.8%

The best of the sites using Just Eat in Essen

Karawane B 83.8% · Vivre AfroFusion Restaurant B 81.5% · Habeez B 76.9% · JUAN SANCHEZ TAPAS BAR C 64.2% · Mimaya - Mexican Food & Bar C 55.4%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through justeat), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 694 in Essen, up from 295th.

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. 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 only through justeat +12 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

  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 Essen. 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 with prices on the page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact: 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 your builder.

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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": "FastFoodRestaurant",
  "name": "Die Burgerschmiede",
  "url": "https://www.dieburgerschmiedeessen.de/",
  "telephone": "+49 178 8426414",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Alte Hatzper Straße 15",
    "postalCode": "45149",
    "addressLocality": "Essen"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.41629,
    "longitude": 6.9703072
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo off; Tu-Su 12:30-21:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:30",
      "closes": "21:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american",
    "burger"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.dieburgerschmiedeessen.de/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Die Burgerschmiede

> fast food restaurant (american, burger) in Alte Hatzper Straße 15 45149 Essen, Essen. Phone +49 178 8426414.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.dieburgerschmiedeessen.de/

## Opening hours

Mo off; Tu-Su 12:30-21:00

## About

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

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Die Burgerschmiede

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/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/essen/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.dieburgerschmiedeessen.de/ html_inlinefrom the scan
HoursMo off; Tu-Su 12:30-21:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+49 178 8426414

Stable links that count: /go/dieburgerschmiedeessen.de/menu 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
Vendor terms for agents
Just Eat, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

Just Eat's UK website terms bar misuse of the website including scraping and limit use to personal, non-commercial purposes; they do not address an assistant ordering for a customer; an Alexa+ ordering tie-in is announced but not live. The terms page refused an automated read on 2026-10-15. Source. About Just Eat · all vendors.

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.txtno how
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 businessno