India Palace
indiapalacemn.com is partly visible to agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of India Palace. It can read what India Palace offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ChowNow.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Order directly: direct.chownow.com/order/18277/locations through chownow acting for the business · Menu: indiapalacemn.com/uptown/menu.php
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42 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Not Ready
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
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.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
How India Palace compares
232 of 416 in Minneapolis
Top 56% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Fika C, Himalayan Restaurant C. Just below: Nokko C, Ramen Kazama C.
| What the top tenth 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 | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 69% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 2% | no |
The top tenth is the 42 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using ChowNow 313 sites | 71% | 51% | 64.6% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soho Cafe greek, pasta, pizza | 34 m | B | no |
| Uptown Diner american, breakfast, brunch | 42 m | C | yes |
| Nico's Taco and Tequila Bar mexican | 99 m | C | yes |
| Namaste Cafe | 114 m | B | yes |
| Rinata Restaurant italian | 223 m | D | yes |
| Urban Eats Halal | 473 m | F | yes |
| Five Guys burger | 475 m | A | yes |
| Kiku Bistro asian, japanese, sushi | 553 m | B | yes |
| La Bodega Taco Bar mexican | 576 m | F | no |
| Dreamstate Cafe coffee_shop, pasta, soup, burger, american, brunch | 691 m | C | no |
Businesses like India Palace in Minneapolis
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis | 416 | 63% | 48% | 64.6% |
| Sites using ChowNow in Minneapolis | 16 | 69% | 44% | 64.6% |
The best of the sites using ChowNow in Minneapolis
Restaurant at the Nicollet Island Inn A 100% · Book Club Restaurant A 86.2% · Pho 79 A 86.2% · Valerie's Taqueria B 84.6% · Kyatchi B 73.8%
The climb
With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 67th of 416 in Minneapolis, up from 232nd.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- 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
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Minneapolis. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Ordering through chownow on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /uptown/about.php: nothing new; menu page /uptown/menu.php: nothing new
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": "India Palace",
"url": "https://indiapalacemn.com/uptown/index.php",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Hennepin Avenue South 2546"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 44.9561305,
"longitude": -93.2971062
},
"openingHours": "11:00-22:00; PH off",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [],
"opens": "11:00",
"closes": "22:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"indian"
],
"hasMenu": "https://indiapalacemn.com/uptown/menu.php",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://direct.chownow.com/order/18277/locations",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# India Palace > restaurant (indian) in Hennepin Avenue South 2546, Minneapolis. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://direct.chownow.com/order/18277/locations (through chownow acting for the business) - Menu: https://indiapalacemn.com/uptown/menu.php ## Opening hours 11:00-22:00; PH off ## About - Website: https://indiapalacemn.com/uptown/index.php - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/indiapalacemn.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/indiapalacemn.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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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What agents get for India Palace
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/indiapalacemn.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/minneapolis/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | direct.chownow.com/order/18277/locations vendor on own site: ChowNow | found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested |
| Menu | indiapalacemn.com/uptown/menu.php html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | 11:00-22:00; PH off (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | none on record |
Stable links that count: /go/indiapalacemn.com/order, /go/indiapalacemn.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.
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.
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | no how |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |