The Direct Index
Report · New Orleans · scanned 2026-11-13

Down the Hatch

downthehatchnola.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Down the Hatch directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through spoton acting for the business. Report a mistake

1921 Sophie Wright Pl, New Orleans 70130 · +15045220909

Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes

Nearby, also direct

Places near Down the Hatch 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 Down the Hatch's website. It can read what Down the Hatch offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.

66.2%

43 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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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 New Orleans and named 100 places. Down the Hatch wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Down the Hatch compares

Where it stands

348 of 827 in New Orleans

Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cane and Table C, Commerce C. Just below: East of Italy C, El Paso Mexican Grill C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using SpotOn 2,657 sites78%69%66.2%
Sites using Uber Eats 2,527 sites61%32%66.2%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Bryant Park Nola bar_and_grill1.2 kmAyes
Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant bar_and_grill1.8 kmAyes
Pour House @ District bar_and_grill1.8 kmByes
Gateway Lounge bar_and_grill2.6 kmFno
Copper Monkey Bar & Grill bar_and_grill2.8 kmDno
Hugeass Beers bar_and_grill3.0 kmDno
House of Buns by Nice Guys Nola bar_and_grill3.1 kmAyes
River Bottom Restaurant bar_and_grill3.4 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Down the Hatch in New Orleans

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans82758%38%66.2%
Sites using SpotOn in New Orleans7173%52%66.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through ubereats), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 27th of 827 in New Orleans, up from 348th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through ubereats +5 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 New Orleans. 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.
  • Booking through spoton on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · menu page /new-orleans-down-the-hatch-food-menu: 87 prices · 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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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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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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