The Direct Index
Report · San Francisco · scanned 2026-10-24

Kantine

kantinesf.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Kantine directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

1906 Market St, 94102, San Francisco · +14157357123

Nearby, also direct

Places near Kantine that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Kantine'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.

68.2%

44.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

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 22 everyday questions about San Francisco and named 113 places. Kantine wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Kantine compares

Where it stands

778 of 2,332 in San Francisco

Top 33% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Zingari C, Hot Sauce and Panko C. Just below: Bao Down C, Bistro SF Grill C.

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 HTML89%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours55%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 236 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 32,150 sites61%41%68.2%
Sites using Square 5,073 sites65%41%68.2%

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Sushi Delight sushi62 mFno
Japacurry159 mDyes
Sushi Zone sushi161 mDyes
Destino peruvian161 mByes
Dantes Inferno SF caribbean162 mFno
Curry Ya Tomo japanese243 mBno
Menya Kanemaru japanese, ramen246 mBno
Pizza Zone N Grill pizza247 mBno
Sushi Shio sushi273 mCno
Whole Foods Salad Bar279 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Kantine in San Francisco

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in San Francisco2,33249%32%68.2%
Sites built with Squarespace in San Francisco34771%57%68.2%
Sites using Square in San Francisco7267%46%68.2%
Sites built with Squarespace and using Square in San Francisco2171%52%68.2%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Square in San Francisco

Tommy's Joynt A 90% · Sam's American Eatery A 86.2% · Powder B 84.6% · Da Poke Man B 80% · Ox & Tiger B 80%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No menu or price list found; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 208th of 2,332 in San Francisco, up from 778th.

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 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

  2. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  3. Structured data is incomplete +2 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  4. 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 San Francisco. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /about-us: nothing new

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "Kantine",
  "url": "http://www.kantinesf.com/",
  "telephone": "+14157357123",
  "address": "1906 Market St, 94102, San Francisco",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 37.77058328592467,
    "longitude": -122.42538571963232
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://kantinesf.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

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

# 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: /

llms.txt

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

# Kantine

> local business (scandinavian) in 1906 Market St, 94102, San Francisco, San Francisco. Phone +14157357123.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://kantinesf.square.site/ (through square acting for the business)

## About

- Website: http://www.kantinesf.com/
- 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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Agent-Direct Score C

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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 Kantine

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/kantinesf.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-francisco/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderkantinesf.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+14157357123

Stable links that count: /go/kantinesf.com/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.txtyes
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