The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne · scanned 2026-10-18

Hinoki Japanese Pantry

hinoki.com.au is hard for agents to use.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Hinoki Japanese Pantry directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

279 Smith St, 3065, Melbourne · +61394174531

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Hinoki Japanese Pantry's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

53.8%

35 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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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 Melbourne and named 56 places. Hinoki Japanese Pantry wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Hinoki Japanese Pantry compares

Where it stands

2,535 of 4,394 in Melbourne

Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hachi Kichi D, Heaven Woodfire Pizza D. Just below: IMMI Dumpling Bar D, Ima Asu Yoru D.

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 HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%no
Have an llms.txt27%no

The top 10% are the 445 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%53.8%
Sites using Square 1,644 sites65%41%53.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tora Dumplings japanese520 mByes
Chotto Motto japanese553 mCyes
Wabi Sabi Salon japanese557 mByes
Chiaki japanese576 mDyes
Obanzai Mama japanese638 mByes
Shizuku japanese1.4 kmDno
Shinbashi Yakiniku japanese1.4 kmCyes
Takumi japanese1.6 kmFno
Don Tojo japanese1.6 kmDno
Fukuryu Ramen japanese1.8 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hinoki Japanese Pantry in Melbourne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne4,39456%32%53.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Melbourne67166%47%53.8%
Sites using Square in Melbourne8772%56%53.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in Melbourne2471%50%53.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Square in Melbourne

Ginger Olive A 100% · France-Soir A 86.2% · Angelette B 84.6% · Kata Kita B 84.6% · Sara B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 387th of 4,394 in Melbourne, up from 2535th.

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 +15 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. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. 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 Melbourne. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Hinoki Japanese Pantry",
  "url": "http://www.hinoki.com.au/",
  "telephone": "+61394174531",
  "address": "279 Smith St, 3065, Melbourne",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.80056466,
    "longitude": 144.98379983
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://hinoki-japanese-pantry.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Hinoki Japanese Pantry

> local business (japanese) in 279 Smith St, 3065, Melbourne, Melbourne. Phone +61394174531.

## Book or order directly

- Order: http://hinoki-japanese-pantry.square.site/ (through square acting for the business)

## About

- Website: http://www.hinoki.com.au/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 Hinoki Japanese Pantry

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/hinoki.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderhinoki-japanese-pantry.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+61394174531

Stable links that count: /go/hinoki.com.au/order 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
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · 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.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 businessno