The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-23

Hamachi Sushi Bar

hamachichicago.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Hamachi Sushi Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through chownow acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Thu 11:30–21:30 · Fri 11:00–15:00 · Sat closed · Sun 12:00–22:00

West Howard Street 2801 60645 Chicago · +1-773-293-6904

Nearby, also direct

Places near Hamachi Sushi Bar 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 Hamachi Sushi Bar's website. What Hamachi Sushi Bar offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ChowNow.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

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 12 everyday questions about Chicago and named 31 places. Hamachi Sushi Bar wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Hamachi Sushi Bar compares

Where it stands

1,647 of 3,640 in Chicago

Top 45% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Habanero Baja Grill C, HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen C. Just below: Harold's Chicken Shack C, Harold's Chicken Shack 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 HTML94%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours58%no
Have an llms.txt29%yes

The top 10% are the 370 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 3,331 sites36%9%61.5%
Sites using ChowNow 424 sites70%50%61.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
El Pueblito Mexican Grill #2 mexican132 mBno
Bill's Drive-in burger782 mCyes
Siam Pasta thai823 mFno
El Terco Leon mexican836 mAyes
Eastern Style Pizza pizza850 mAno
Chase-western Inc982 mCno
Al Safa Mandi House middle_eastern1.1 kmFno
Bangkok Wok thai1.1 kmFno
Pizza Hut Delivery pizza1.2 kmByes
China Ling chinese1.2 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hamachi Sushi Bar in Chicago

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Chicago3,64052%35%61.5%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Chicago5355%28%61.5%
Sites using ChowNow in Chicago3571%43%61.5%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using ChowNow in Chicago665%33%61.5%

The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using ChowNow in Chicago

Sarkis Cafe A 95.4% · Nepal House A 86.2% · Nepal House C 56.9% · The Bento Box D 53.8% · Kameya Ramen & Sushi F 35.4%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 363rd of 3,640 in Chicago, up from 1647th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

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. 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. 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 Chicago. 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.
  • Ordering through chownow on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: godaddy · contact page /about: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on godaddy.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Hamachi Sushi Bar",
  "url": "http://hamachichicago.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-773-293-6904",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Howard Street 2801",
    "postalCode": "60645",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 42.0191667,
    "longitude": -87.6997541
  },
  "openingHours": "Su 12:00-22:00; Mo-Th 11:30-21:30; Fr 11:00-15:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "21:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "15:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "sushi"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e11f9176-9f70-4a86-b59e-8c93a618aeec/downloads/cae4d6f4-711b-4c1b-b778-8748bd9fda62/Main%20Menu%202026%20update.docx%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf?ver=1777040296903",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://ordering.chownow.com/order/10870/locations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Hamachi Sushi Bar

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/hamachichicago.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderordering.chownow.com/order/10870/locations vendor on own site: ChowNowfound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Menuimg1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e11f9176-9f70-4a86-b59e-8c93a618aee pdffrom the scan
HoursSu 12:00-22:00; Mo-Th 11:30-21:30; Fr 11:00-15:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-773-293-6904

Stable links that count: /go/hamachichicago.com/order, /go/hamachichicago.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

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
Vendor terms for agents
ChowNow, read 2026-10-15
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. Source. About ChowNow · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno