# Ming Garden: Agent-Direct Score A (89.2%)

Site: https://www.mingsgardenkcmo.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/mingsgardenkcmo.com
Scanned: 2026-11-13 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Ming Garden is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Ming Garden'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 on the site.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://www.mingsgardenkcmo.com/order (on the business's own site)
- Phone: +18164522151
- Address: 4311 Chouteau Trafficway, Kansas City 64117
- Hours, from mingsgardenkcmo.com: Mon closed; Tue–Fri 10:30–21:30; Sat–Sun 11:00–21:30

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Ming Garden that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Pho Saigon (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/thephosaigon.com
- Little Caesars (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/littlecaesars.com
- Stacks Drive In (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/stacksbowers.com
- Squirrelys Bar and Grill (1.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/squirrelysbar.com
- Jumpin Catfish Restaurant (1.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/jumpincatfish.com

## What to fix first
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **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.

```
# Ming Garden

> restaurant (chinese) in 4311 Chouteau Trafficway, Kansas City 64117, Kansas City. Phone +18164522151.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.mingsgardenkcmo.com/order (on the business's own site)

## Opening hours

Tu-Fr 10:30-21:30; Sa,Su 11:00-21:30

## About

- Website: https://www.mingsgardenkcmo.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
- **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

## Where it stands
84 of 683 in Kansas City. Top 12% 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 | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 91% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 99% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 66% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 36% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Pho Saigon (C, 8 m, https://directindex.org/r/thephosaigon.com); Little Caesars (C, 62 m, https://directindex.org/r/littlecaesars.com); Stacks Drive In (F, 1147 m, https://directindex.org/r/stacksbowers.com); Squirrelys Bar and Grill (C, 1251 m, https://directindex.org/r/squirrelysbar.com); Jumpin Catfish Restaurant (A, 1295 m, https://directindex.org/r/jumpincatfish.com); The Alamo Restaurant (F, 1466 m, https://directindex.org/r/kcrestaurant.net); The Thirsty Gnome (A, 1526 m, https://directindex.org/r/thethirstygnome.com); Long John Silvers (C, 1612 m, https://directindex.org/r/ljsilvers.com); Mudbug Cajun Po' Boys (F, 1634 m, https://directindex.org/r/mudbugtogo.com); Macarena's Mexican Food (C, 1709 m, https://directindex.org/r/macarenasmexicanfood.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 Kansas City and named 89 places. Ming Garden wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/kansas-city/recommended


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

## Businesses like Ming Garden in Kansas City

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Kansas City | 683 | 63% | 45% | 89.2% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Kansas City: Anderson Restaurant Group (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/herefordhouse.com); Black WallStreet (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/blackwallstreettogo.com); Bo Lings (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bolings.com); Devoured Pop-Up (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/devouredpizza.com); Fogo de Chao (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com).

With the fix above (No menu or price list found), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 683 in Kansas City.

## The direct record
What agents get for Ming Garden, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/mingsgardenkcmo.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://www.mingsgardenkcmo.com/order (own site; found by the scan of 2026-11-13, not yet tested)
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Tu-Fr 10:30-21:30; Sa,Su 11:00-21:30 (closed now) (from mingsgardenkcmo.com)
- Phone: +18164522151
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/mingsgardenkcmo.com/order

## 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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /order: business JSON-LD, address, telephone, opening hours, menu schema.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 18 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 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/mingsgardenkcmo.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: yes
- 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/mingsgardenkcmo.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/mingsgardenkcmo.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=mingsgardenkcmo.com&force=1