# Kau Kau Grill: Agent-Direct Score A (92.3%)

Site: https://www.kaukaugrill.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/kaukaugrill.com
Scanned: 2026-11-12 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Kau Kau Grill is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Kau Kau Grill's website. It can read what Kau Kau Grill offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://static.spotapps.co/spots/c2/a7c6fbe47f4465978e984d758c1041/full (through spoton acting for the business)
- Menu: https://kaukaugrill.com/food-menu
- Phone: 18084765888
- Address: 852 Mapunapuna St, Honolulu 96819-2051
- Hours, from kaukaugrill.com: Mon–Fri 08:00–13:30; Sat–Sun closed

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Kau Kau Grill that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Hawaiian Plantation (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/kydinc.com
- Thirty Eight (38) (3.6 km): https://directindex.org/r/thirtyeighthi.com
- Hawaiian Ono Services (3.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/onohawaiianbbq.com
- Tanaka Saimin (3.9 km): https://directindex.org/r/tanakasaimin.com

## What to fix first
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+5 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Kau Kau Grill

> restaurant (hawaiian) in 852 Mapunapuna St, Honolulu 96819-2051, Honolulu. Phone 18084765888.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://static.spotapps.co/spots/c2/a7c6fbe47f4465978e984d758c1041/full (through spoton acting for the business)
- Menu: https://kaukaugrill.com/food-menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 08:00-13:30

## About

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

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Booking through spoton on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
14 of 835 in Honolulu. Top 2% 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 | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 36% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Hawaiian Plantation (D, 1078 m, https://directindex.org/r/kydinc.com); E Ohi Restaurant (D, 2182 m, https://directindex.org/r/eohirestaurant.com); Pongo's Kitchen (D, 2506 m, https://directindex.org/r/pongoskitchen.com); Young's Fish Market (D, 3391 m, https://directindex.org/r/youngsfishmarket.com); Thirty Eight (38) (C, 3557 m, https://directindex.org/r/thirtyeighthi.com); Richie's Drive Inn (F, 3653 m, https://directindex.org/r/richiesdriveinn.com); Hawaiian Ono Services (C, 3667 m, https://directindex.org/r/onohawaiianbbq.com); Tanaka Saimin (B, 3941 m, https://directindex.org/r/tanakasaimin.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 22 everyday questions about Honolulu and named 105 places. Kau Kau Grill wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/honolulu/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites using SpotOn 78% (69% A or B, 2375 sites); This site 92.3%.

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

## Businesses like Kau Kau Grill in Honolulu

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Honolulu | 835 | 54% | 34% | 92.3% |
| Sites using SpotOn in Honolulu | 38 | 78% | 79% | 92.3% |

The best of the sites using SpotOn in Honolulu: Brew'd Craft Pub (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/brewdcraftpub.com); Kirin Restaurant (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/kirinrestauranthawaii.com); Cream Pot (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/creampothawaii.com); Kozo Sushi (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/kozosushihawaii.com); San Paolo Restaurant (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/sanpaolopizzeria.com).

With the fix above (Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 835 in Honolulu.

## The direct record
What agents get for Kau Kau Grill, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/kaukaugrill.com
- Book: https://static.spotapps.co/spots/c2/a7c6fbe47f4465978e984d758c1041/full (vendor on own site: SpotOn; found by the scan of 2026-11-12, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://kaukaugrill.com/food-menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-13:30 (closed now) (from kaukaugrill.com)
- Phone: 18084765888
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/kaukaugrill.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/kaukaugrill.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
- Vendor terms for agents, SpotOn: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet.

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /food-menu: 57 prices.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/kaukaugrill.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

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