# Downtown Dogs: Agent-Direct Score C (55.4%) Site: https://www.downtowndogschicago.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/downtowndogschicago.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Downtown Dogs is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Downtown Dogs's website. It can read what Downtown Dogs offers. To book or order, it is sent to Grubhub, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://downtowndogschicago.com/menu - Phone: (312) 951-5141 - Address: 804 N Rush St, 60611, Chicago ## Nearby, also direct Places near Downtown Dogs that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - D & J Pizza (2.4 km): https://directindex.org/r/ranallislincolnpark.com - Chicago Dog House (3.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/originalchicagosdoghouse.com ## 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Ordering only through grubhub.** (+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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Downtown Dogs > local business (hot dog) in 804 N Rush St, 60611, Chicago, Chicago. Phone (312) 951-5141. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://downtowndogschicago.com/menu ## About - Website: https://www.downtowndogschicago.com - 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 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. - **Grubhub works with agents through its partners.** Grubhub's terms of use (17 December 2024) bar access with any robot, spider, crawler or automated process; since June 2026 Alexa+ users can browse, build an order and check out through Grubhub by voice. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.grubhub.com/legal/terms-of-use. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 1866 of 3638 in Chicago. Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 93% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 29% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Go Doggy Run Hotdog Cart (F, 700 m, https://directindex.org/r/godoggyrun.com); America's Dog (C, 1939 m, https://directindex.org/r/adbfresh.com); Luke's Italian Beef (D, 2216 m, https://directindex.org/r/lukeschicago.com); D & J Pizza (A, 2449 m, https://directindex.org/r/ranallislincolnpark.com); Chicago Dog House (A, 3748 m, https://directindex.org/r/originalchicagosdoghouse.com); The Patio (D, 4443 m, https://directindex.org/r/viennabeef.com). ## What assistants answer 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 12 everyday questions about Chicago and named 55 places. Downtown Dogs wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using Grubhub 66% (52% A or B, 514 sites); This site 55.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/downtowndogschicago.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Downtown Dogs in Chicago | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 3638 | 52% | 35% | 55.4% | | Sites built with WordPress in Chicago | 703 | 64% | 39% | 55.4% | | Sites using Grubhub in Chicago | 59 | 66% | 58% | 55.4% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Grubhub in Chicago | 10 | 57% | 10% | 55.4% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Grubhub in Chicago: Trattoria Gianni (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/trattoriagianni.com); Rice N' Bread (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/ricenbread.com); The Original Nicky's (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/nickys58.com); Nella Pizza e Pasta (C 57.4%, https://directindex.org/r/nellachicago.com); urbangrillchicago (C 55.4%, https://directindex.org/r/urbangrillchicago.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through grubhub), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 104th of 3,638 in Chicago, up from 1866th. ## The direct record What agents get for Downtown Dogs, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/downtowndogschicago.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://downtowndogschicago.com/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: (312) 951-5141 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/downtowndogschicago.com/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 - Vendor terms for agents, Grubhub: Through partners. Grubhub's terms of use (17 December 2024) bar access with any robot, spider, crawler or automated process; since June 2026 Alexa+ users can browse, build an order and check out through Grubhub by voice. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.grubhub.com/legal/terms-of-use ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/downtowndogschicago.com - 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/downtowndogschicago.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/downtowndogschicago.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=downtowndogschicago.com&force=1