Merriman’s Honolulu
merrimanshawaii.com is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Merriman’s Honolulu directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-12. Through bentobox acting for the business. Report a mistake
(808) 215-0022
Prices: 122 prices on the site, the middle one $15.00
Places near Merriman’s Honolulu that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Z Pizza Hawaii50 m · pizza
- An Di Dzo90 m · vietnamese
- Ali’i Coffee Ward Village100 m
- Taqueria “el Gallo Rosa”100 m
- Rinka110 m · japanese
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Merriman’s Honolulu's website. It can read what Merriman’s Honolulu offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.
43 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for 4 questions, including "Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?" in Honolulu, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Honolulu and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 4 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-12 |
| Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-12 |
| I'm coeliac. A restaurant with real gluten-free options for dinner, book it. | ChatGPT with a link to this site Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-12 |
| Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-12 |
Every place named in Honolulu, question by question.
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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/merrimanshawaii.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/merrimanshawaii.com.svg" alt="Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“I'm coeliac. A restaurant with real gluten-free options for dinner, book it.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
How Merriman’s Honolulu compares
331 of 824 in Honolulu
Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hihimanu Sushi C, Kotetsu Chaya C. Just below: Musubi Cafe IYASUME C, Osaka Oden Izakaya Kawano C.
| What the top 10% 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 | 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% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 37% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 2,391 sites | 80% | 86% | 66.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable 6,562 sites | 69% | 51% | 66.2% |
| Sites using BentoBox 511 sites | 86% | 92% | 66.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Z Pizza Hawaii pizza | 52 m | A | yes |
| Fat Cheeks Hawaii | 81 m | F | no |
| An Di Dzo vietnamese | 89 m | A | yes |
| Guy Fieri's Flavortown Kitchen | 96 m | F | no |
| Istanbul Hawai'i | 101 m | F | no |
| Ali’i Coffee Ward Village | 103 m | B | yes |
| Taqueria “el Gallo Rosa” | 103 m | B | yes |
| Rinka japanese | 114 m | B | yes |
| Mr. Beast Burger | 121 m | B | yes |
| LBD Japanese Bar & Lounge pan_asian | 134 m | C | no |
Businesses like Merriman’s Honolulu in Honolulu
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Honolulu | 824 | 54% | 35% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with BentoBox in Honolulu | 16 | 76% | 75% | 66.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Honolulu | 63 | 68% | 41% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Honolulu | 1 | 66% | 0% | 66.2% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 8th of 824 in Honolulu, up from 331st.
What to fix first
- 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
- Booking only through opentable +5 points
Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Honolulu. 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.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Ordering through bentobox on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
Builder: bentobox · contact page /contact/: nothing new · What to paste
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