# Gretel: Agent-Direct Score C (58.5%) Site: https://gretelchicago.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/gretelchicago.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Gretel is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Gretel's website. What Gretel offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ChowNow. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://direct.chownow.com/order/25433/locations/37599 (through chownow acting for the business) - Menu: https://gretelchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/Gretel-Menu.pdf - Phone: +17737703427 - Address: 2833 W Armitage Ave, 60647, Chicago ## Nearby, also direct Places near Gretel that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Table, Donkey and Stick (230 m): https://directindex.org/r/tabledonkeystick.com - Parson's Chicken & Fish (230 m): https://directindex.org/r/parsonschickenandfish.com - Yaba's Food & Middle Eastern Grill (360 m): https://directindex.org/r/yabasgrill.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 - **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. ``` # Gretel > local business in 2833 W Armitage Ave, 60647, Chicago, Chicago. Phone +17737703427. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://direct.chownow.com/order/25433/locations/37599 (through chownow acting for the business) - Menu: https://gretelchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/Gretel-Menu.pdf ## About - Website: https://gretelchicago.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. - **Ordering through chownow on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-23 (C then) - Fixed: nothing - New: nothing ## Where it stands 1825 of 3754 in Chicago. Top 49% 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% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 30% | no | Nearest places in the index: Ugo's (F, 1 m, https://directindex.org/r/ugoschicago.com); Osteria Langhe (B, 45 m, https://directindex.org/r/osterialanghe.com); Brand Smokehouse & Tap (F, 49 m, https://directindex.org/r/brandbbq.com); Dinhua Asian Cuisine (F, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/dinhua.com); China Fast Wok (D, 102 m, https://directindex.org/r/chinafastwok.com); The Spice Room (D, 103 m, https://directindex.org/r/thespiceroomchicago.com); Bonsoirée (F, 210 m, https://directindex.org/r/bonsoireechicago.com); Table, Donkey and Stick (C, 225 m, https://directindex.org/r/tabledonkeystick.com); Parson's Chicken & Fish (B, 227 m, https://directindex.org/r/parsonschickenandfish.com); Yaba's Food & Middle Eastern Grill (A, 364 m, https://directindex.org/r/yabasgrill.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. Gretel wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago/recommended Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-23: 2026-10-23 59%, 2026-10-24 59%. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using ChowNow 72% (54% A or B, 1059 sites); This site 58.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/gretelchicago.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Gretel in Chicago | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 3754 | 52% | 35% | 58.5% | | Sites built with WordPress in Chicago | 730 | 64% | 40% | 58.5% | | Sites using ChowNow in Chicago | 77 | 72% | 48% | 58.5% | | Sites built with WordPress and using ChowNow in Chicago | 21 | 67% | 33% | 58.5% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using ChowNow in Chicago: The Green Door Tavern (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/greendoorchicago.com); Calo Ristorante (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/calorestaurant.com); Chicago Oyster House (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/chicagooysterhouse.com); Hash House A Go Go (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/hashhouseagogo.com); DosBros Fresh Mexican Grill (B 73.4%, https://directindex.org/r/dosbros.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 373rd of 3,754 in Chicago, up from 1825th. ## The direct record What agents get for Gretel, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/gretelchicago.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://direct.chownow.com/order/25433/locations/37599 (vendor on own site: ChowNow; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Menu: https://gretelchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/Gretel-Menu.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +17737703427 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/gretelchicago.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/gretelchicago.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, ChowNow: Not stated. ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines; they do not address an agent placing an order for a person, and no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://get.chownow.com/terms-of-service ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 5 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/gretelchicago.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/gretelchicago.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/gretelchicago.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=gretelchicago.com&force=1