The Direct Index
Report · Pittsburgh · scanned 2026-10-24

Kiku Japanese Restaurant

kikupittsburgh.net is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

OrderCallWebsite

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

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Tu-Th 12:00-14:00,17:00-22:00, Fr 12:00-14:00,16:30-22:00, Sa-Su 12:00-15:00,16:30-22:00

West Station Square Drive 225 15219 Pittsburgh · +1 412-765-3200

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Kiku Japanese Restaurant'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 Toast.

55.4%

36 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "I want sushi delivered this evening" in Pittsburgh, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Pittsburgh and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want sushi delivered this evening.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Pittsburgh, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“I want sushi delivered this evening.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Kiku Japanese Restaurant compares

Where it stands

163 of 250 in Pittsburgh

Top 65% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Banh Mi & Ti C, Chicken Latino C. Just below: Oishii Donburi C, Pizza Lupo 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 HTML100%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)92%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours80%no
Have an llms.txt28%yes

The top 10% are the 25 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 42,583 sites54%31%55.4%
Sites using Toast 6,097 sites73%62%55.4%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Kiku Japanese Restaurant in Pittsburgh

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Pittsburgh25062%45%55.4%
Sites built with Wix in Pittsburgh1967%47%55.4%
Sites using Toast in Pittsburgh4170%49%55.4%
Sites built with Wix and using Toast in Pittsburgh269%50%55.4%

The best of the sites using Toast in Pittsburgh

Walter's Southern Kitchen A 100% · Giovanni's Pizza & Pasta A 95.4% · Grapow A 95.4% · Lawrence Hall A 92.3% · Local Bar + Kitchen A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 45th of 250 in Pittsburgh, up from 163rd.

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 structured data for the business +14 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

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

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.
  • Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: wix · contact page /about: 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 wix.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Kiku Japanese Restaurant",
  "url": "https://www.kikupittsburgh.net/",
  "telephone": "+1 412-765-3200",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Station Square Drive 225",
    "postalCode": "15219",
    "addressLocality": "Pittsburgh"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.4339278,
    "longitude": -80.0055803
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Th 12:00-14:00,17:00-22:00, Fr 12:00-14:00,16:30-22:00, Sa-Su 12:00-15:00,16:30-22:00",
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese"
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://tables.toasttab.com/restaurants/3416da12-1313-477c-8c3c-f588c58b79d7/findTime",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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 Kiku Japanese Restaurant

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/kikupittsburgh.net, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/pittsburgh/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordertables.toasttab.com/restaurants/3416da12-1313-477c-8c3c-f588 vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menunone on record
HoursTu-Th 12:00-14:00,17:00-22:00, Fr 12:00-14:00,16:30-22:00, Sa-Su 12:00-15:00,16:30-22:00from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1 412-765-3200

Stable links that count: /go/kikupittsburgh.net/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
yes
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
Toast
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Toast, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · 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.txtyes
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 businessno