The J. Parker
jparkerchicago.com is ready for agents.
Order directly: getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=jparkerchic through bentobox acting for the business · Menu: www.jparkerchicago.com/menu/
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57 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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 to fix first
- Booking only through opentable +5 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- BentoBox's terms do not allow agents; a direct form on your own site would +5 points
BentoBox's terms of service (5 January 2023) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://getbento.com/terms. An agent that books or orders there acts against the vendor's terms; a form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. How to fix it About this vendor
- 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 Chicago cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (FoodEstablishment) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Ordering through bentobox on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on bentobox is in the guides.
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The J. Parker > bar or pub in North Clark Street 1816 60614 Chicago, Chicago cafes and bars. Phone +1 312 254-4747. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=jparkerchicago.com (through bentobox acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.jparkerchicago.com/menu/ ## Opening hours Mo,Tu 16:00-23:00, We,Th 11:00-23:00, Fr 11:00-00:00, Sa 10:00-00:00, Su 10:00-22:00 ## About - Website: https://www.jparkerchicago.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
35 of 810 in Chicago cafes and bars
Top 4% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Goddess and Grocer A, The Irish Legend A. Just below: The Waterfront Cafe A, Vintage Bar A.
| 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 | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 33% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 21% | no |
The top tenth is the 82 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 911 sites | 84% | 96% | 87.7% |
| Sites using OpenTable 1,440 sites | 67% | 42% | 87.7% |
| Sites using BentoBox 343 sites | 83% | 93% | 87.7% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoa + Co. | 297 m | C | no |
| Marge’s Still | 384 m | C | yes |
| Corcoran's Grill & Pub | 416 m | B | yes |
| Park West | 431 m | B | yes |
| Utopian Tailgate | 443 m | B | no |
| North and Clark Café | 465 m | C | yes |
| Old Town Ale House | 492 m | F | no |
| River Shannon | 549 m | D | no |
| LG’s Bar | 610 m | B | yes |
| 80 Proof | 672 m | F | no |
Businesses like The J. Parker in Chicago cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Chicago cafes and bars | 810 | 48% | 28% | 87.7% |
| Built with BentoBox in Chicago cafes and bars | 25 | 83% | 100% | 87.7% |
| Using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars | 16 | 75% | 69% | 87.7% |
| Built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars | 7 | 84% | 100% | 87.7% |
The best of Built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars
D4 Irish Pub & Cafe A 87.7% · Bandit A 86.3% · Cantina Rosa B 83.1% · Casa Chi B 83.1% · Labriola B 83.1%
The climb
With the two fixes above (Booking only through opentable; BentoBox's terms do not allow agents; a direct form on your own site would) the score would be about 100%: first of 810 in Chicago cafes and bars.
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 agents get for The J. Parker
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/jparkerchicago.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=jparkerchic vendor on own site: BentoBox | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.jparkerchicago.com/menu/ html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo,Tu 16:00-23:00, We,Th 11:00-23:00, Fr 11:00-00:00, Sa 10:00-00:00, Su 10:00-22:00 | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1 312 254-4747 |
Stable links that count: /go/jparkerchicago.com/order, /go/jparkerchicago.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 | 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 |
| Vendor terms for agents BentoBox, read 2026-10-15 | No |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
BentoBox's terms of service (5 January 2023) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Source. About BentoBox · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| 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 | yes |
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/jparkerchicago.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/jparkerchicago.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
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