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

Emeril's

emerilsrestaurant.com is partly visible to agents.

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MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Emeril's directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake

800 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 · +1 504 5289393

Nearby, also direct

Places near Emeril's 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 Emeril's's website. It can read what Emeril's offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.

67.7%

44 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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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "A special tasting menu for our anniversary next month. Book us in" and "A wine bar with small plates tonight. Reserve two seats" in New Orleans, November 2026

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

QuestionNamed byAsked
A special tasting menu for our anniversary next month. Book us in.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-11-13
A wine bar with small plates tonight. Reserve two seats.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-13

Every place named in New Orleans, question by question.

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

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A special tasting menu for our anniversary next month. Book us in.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
“A wine bar with small plates tonight. Reserve two seats.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Emeril's compares

Where it stands

333 of 828 in New Orleans

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Chais Delachaise C, Desi Vega's Steakhouse - New Orleans C. Just below: La Cocinita Restaurant NOLA C, Mr. John's Steakhouse C.

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%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 built with WordPress 263,486 sites55%25%67.7%
Sites using Resy 3,138 sites67%45%67.7%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Legacy Kitchen's Craft Tavern american, regional186 mByes
Meril soup, regional, american, salad, cajun229 mBno
Compère Lapin creole, regional360 mByes
Mother's Restaurant regional488 mByes
Drago's Seafood Restaurant regional516 mByes
Gallier’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar cajun, local, regional, american, breakfast, salad1.0 kmAyes
Tujague's Restaurant regional1.2 kmByes
NOLA regional1.2 kmCno
Brennan's Restaurant regional1.3 kmAyes
Café Maspero regional, burger, local, brunch, breakfast1.3 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Emeril's in New Orleans

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans82858%38%67.7%
Sites built with WordPress in New Orleans18363%39%67.7%
Sites using Resy in New Orleans5063%26%67.7%
Sites built with WordPress and using Resy in New Orleans1257%8%67.7%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 27th of 828 in New Orleans, up from 333rd.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking only through resy +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

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  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.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Resy works with agents through its partners Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. 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.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about/: nothing new; menu page /menus/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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What agents get, and what the site publishes

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