# Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant: Agent-Direct Score C (61.5%)

Site: http://hunanexpressnc.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hunanexpressnc.com
Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant is partly visible to agents.
AI assistants can't open Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://order.hunanexpressnc.com/order (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.hunanexpressnc.com/#menu
- Phone: +17043665766
- Address: 901C
- Prices: 184 prices on the site, the middle one $12.50

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Shun Lee Palace (1.5 km): https://directindex.org/r/shunleepalace.net
- Ginbu 401 (2.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/ginbu401.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+23.8 points) A plain fetch was refused (http_429). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot.** (no points, but worth doing) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **184 prices on the landing page, the middle one $12.50.** In Charlotte, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $11.50.

## Fix kit: What to paste

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

## Already right
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

## Where it stands
570 of 1138 in Charlotte. Top 50% 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 | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 68% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 41% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Shun Lee Palace (D, 1542 m, https://directindex.org/r/shunleepalace.net); Koishi Restaurant & Sushi Bar (C, 1701 m, https://directindex.org/r/koishicharlotte.com); Taipei Express (F, 2715 m, https://directindex.org/r/taipei-express-charlotte.com); Ginbu 401 (C, 2848 m, https://directindex.org/r/ginbu401.com); Vanloi Chinese Barbecue (F, 2944 m, https://directindex.org/r/vanloichinesebbq.com); Tajhouse Uptown (F, 3675 m, https://directindex.org/r/tajhouseuptown.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 Charlotte and named 92 places. Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/charlotte/recommended


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/hunanexpressnc.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant in Charlotte

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Charlotte | 1138 | 56% | 37% | 61.5% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Charlotte: 204 North (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/204north.com); Bheemasfoodtruck (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bheemascharlotte.com); Bonchon Chicken (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bonchon.com); Burger 21 (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/burger21.com); Carolina Ale House (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/carolinaalehouse.com).

With the fix above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included), the score would be about 98.2%. That would be 38th of 1,138 in Charlotte, up from 570th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hunan Express Chinese Restaurant, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hunanexpressnc.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://order.hunanexpressnc.com/order (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://www.hunanexpressnc.com/#menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +17043665766
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/hunanexpressnc.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/hunanexpressnc.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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got http_429); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/hunanexpressnc.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/hunanexpressnc.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=hunanexpressnc.com&force=1