The Direct Index
Report · Washington, DC · scanned 2026-10-14

Hard Rock Cafe

hardrock.com is mostly ready for agents.

Order directly: cafe.hardrock.com/delivery.aspx on the business's own site · Menu: cafe.hardrock.com/menu.aspx

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84%

84 of 100 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-15: partial, a path exists but an agent would struggle. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +5 points

    Missing: telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Booking through an unrecognised third party no points, still worth doing

    Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it

  3. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

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.

Show the code to paste

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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Hard Rock Cafe",
  "url": "https://cafe.hardrock.com/washington-dc/",
  "telephone": "+1 202-737-7625",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "E Street Northwest 999",
    "postalCode": "20004",
    "addressLocality": "Washington"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 38.8963303,
    "longitude": -77.0257003
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th,Su 11:00-21:00; Fr,Sa 11:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://cafe.hardrock.com/menu.aspx",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://cafe.hardrock.com/delivery.aspx",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Hard Rock Cafe

> restaurant (american) in E Street Northwest 999 20004 Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +1 202-737-7625.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://cafe.hardrock.com/delivery.aspx (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://cafe.hardrock.com/menu.aspx

## Opening hours

Mo-Th,Su 11:00-21:00; Fr,Sa 11:00-22:00

## About

- Website: https://cafe.hardrock.com/washington-dc/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

How Hard Rock Cafe compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Washington, DC

The ranking refreshes hourly; this site joins it on the next refresh.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours53%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top tenth is the 148 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hard Rock Cafe in Washington, DC

This site appears in 30 cities (33 places on hardrock.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.

Assistants

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.

AssistantOfficial website?Where to book?Where to order?
ChatGPTown siteown siteown site
Claudeown siteown siteown site
Geminiown siteown siteown site

Asked on 2026-10-14 with web search on. 100% of answers pointed at the business's own site or a vendor acting for it; that share is the Cited part of the score.

What ChatGPT said 2026-10-14, three questions

Official website?
https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/

Where to book?
Book through Hard Rock Cafe Porto’s official reservation page (powered by OpenTable): https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/ (cafe.hardrock.com (https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/?utmsource=openai))

Where to order?
Order online from Hard Rock Cafe Porto via Uber Eats: https://www.ubereats.com/pt/store/hard-rock-cafe-porto/i9MSEDVRTWWrJo-oknfoOw Hard Rock Cafe Porto’s official site links to this ordering option. (cafe.hardrock.com (https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/))

What Claude said 2026-10-14, three questions

Official website?
https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/

Where to book?
You can book online through OpenTable: https://www.opentable.com/r/hard-rock-cafe-porto I didn't open the page to check that it's taking bookings right now. Two other options are TheFork (https://www.thefork.com/restaurant/hard-rock-cafe-porto-r804074) and the restaurant's own site (https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/).

Where to order?
Use the Hard Rock Cafe Porto page: https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/ The page has a "Delivery" option. It also lists order links for Uber Eats, Glovo and Bolt Food. Pick one of those delivery apps from the page to place your order.

What Gemini said 2026-10-14, three questions

Official website?
The official website for Hard Rock Cafe Porto is: https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/

Where to book?
You can book a table directly on the official Hard Rock Cafe Porto website: Hard Rock Cafe Porto – Reservations (https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/) Alternatively, you can reserve via restaurant booking platforms: Hard Rock Cafe Porto on TheFork (https://www.thefork.com/restaurant/hard-rock-cafe-porto-r689539)

Where to order?
You can order food online from Hard Rock Cafe Porto for delivery through Uber Eats. You can place your order using this link: Uber Eats – Hard Rock Cafe Porto (https://www.ubereats.com/store/hard-rock-cafe-porto/46zH1HwQRN6wPj5q-126w) Alternatively, you can visit their official location page to view their menu and options: Hard Rock Cafe Porto Official Page (https://cafe.hardrock.com/porto/)

Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

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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The direct record

What agents get for Hard Rock Cafe

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/hardrock.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordercafe.hardrock.com/delivery.aspx own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menucafe.hardrock.com/menu.aspx html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Th,Su 11:00-21:00; Fr,Sa 11:00-22:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1 202-737-7625

Agents and people followed 1 direct link to this business this month (1 by AI agents).

Stable links that count: /go/hardrock.com/order, /go/hardrock.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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
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 businessyes