Gong Cha
gong-cha.com is hard for agents to use.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 54% → 54%
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35 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14: no change in the findings.
What to fix first
- No booking or ordering path at all +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +5 points
Missing: telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (Organization) address
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us: nothing new
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.
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Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
"name": "Gong Cha",
"url": "https://www.gong-cha.com",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "M Street Northwest 3277"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 38.9052734,
"longitude": -77.0654048
},
"servesCuisine": [
"bubble tea"
]
}
</script>
How Gong Cha compares
120 of 464 in Washington, DC cafes and bars
Top 26% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Dirty Habit B, Entitlement Lounge B. Just below: Grace Street Coffee Roasters at AIA B, L.A. Bar & Grill B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 38% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 17% | yes |
The top tenth is the 47 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taichi Bubble Tea bubble_tea | 351 m | D | yes |
| Gong Cha bubble_tea | 1.6 km | B | yes |
| Spot of Tea bubble_tea | 1.7 km | F | no |
| Moge Tee bubble_tea | 1.9 km | F | no |
| SecreTea bubble_tea | 2.1 km | C | yes |
| E-Tea bubble_tea | 2.2 km | C | yes |
| Gong Cha bubble_tea | 3.0 km | F | no |
| Kung Fu Tea bubble_tea | 3.2 km | A | yes |
Businesses like Gong Cha in Washington, DC cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Washington, DC cafes and bars | 464 | 48% | 34% | 53.8% |
The best of Same kind in Washington, DC cafes and bars
PubKey A 97.5% · Bluestone Lane A 96.3% · Buddy's A 96.3% · Courthaus Social A 95% · Boundary Stone A 93.8%
The climb
With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering path at all; No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 4th of 464 in Washington, DC cafes and bars, up from 120th.
This site appears in 12 cities (13 places on gong-cha.com). Every city it is in →
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Gong Cha
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-15 found no booking or ordering link on gong-cha.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/gong-cha.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | none on record |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
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 |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |