# Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅: Agent-Direct Score B (72.3%)

Site: https://www.mtshootao.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/mtshootao.com
Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅 is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅'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 Chowbus POS.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/Mt-ShooTao-Hot-Pot/21894 (through chowbus_pos acting for the business)
- Phone: +16468220345
- Address: 35 W 35th St, 10001, New York

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅 that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Mala Hot Pot (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/malahotpotnyc.com
- Cafe China (180 m): https://directindex.org/r/cafechina.nyc
- Cozy Rice (小稻屋肠粉店） (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/cozyriceny.com
- Calle Dao (280 m): https://directindex.org/r/calledao.com
- Chili (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/chilinyc.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
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅",
  "url": "https://www.mtshootao.com/",
  "telephone": "+16468220345",
  "address": "35 W 35th St, 10001, New York",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.74997117,
    "longitude": -73.9857188
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/Mt-ShooTao-Hot-Pot/21894",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## 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 (LocalBusiness).** address, phone
- **Ordering through chowbus_pos on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
3264 of 11171 in New York. Top 29% 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 | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | yes |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Mala Hot Pot (B, 79 m, https://directindex.org/r/malahotpotnyc.com); Cafe China (C, 179 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafechina.nyc); Cozy Rice (小稻屋肠粉店） (C, 196 m, https://directindex.org/r/cozyriceny.com); China Us (F, 248 m, https://directindex.org/r/usxpertise.com); Calle Dao (A, 283 m, https://directindex.org/r/calledao.com); LUNAR (C, 287 m, https://directindex.org/r/thelunarnyc.com); Chili (A, 302 m, https://directindex.org/r/chilinyc.com); Peppercorn Station (C, 302 m, https://directindex.org/r/peppercornstation.com); ER HOT POT - 6TH AVE 贰火锅 (F, 307 m, https://directindex.org/r/er-hotpot.com); Szechuan Gourmet (F, 322 m, https://directindex.org/r/szechuan-gourmet.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 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅 wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Wix 54% (31% A or B, 42583 sites); Sites using Chowbus POS 67% (58% A or B, 132 sites); This site 72.3%.

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

## Businesses like Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅 in New York

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11171 | 52% | 34% | 72.3% |
| Sites built with Wix in New York | 687 | 65% | 42% | 72.3% |
| Sites using Chowbus POS in New York | 35 | 67% | 57% | 72.3% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in New York | 18 | 64% | 61% | 72.3% |

The best of the sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in New York: Akino (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/akinonyc.com); Asea Fusion (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/aseanyc.com); Coco Hotpot 皇椰鸡 (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/cocohotpot3720.com); DunHuang Miss Noodles (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/dunhuangnoodle.com); Mala Hot Pot (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/malahotpotnyc.com).

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 1209th of 11,171 in New York, up from 3264th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Mt. ShooTao Hot Pot 蜀道山火锅, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/mtshootao.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/Mt-ShooTao-Hot-Pot/21894 (vendor on own site: Chowbus POS; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested)
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +16468220345
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/mtshootao.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): 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 (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no
- Vendor terms for agents, Chowbus POS: 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.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 12 | 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/mtshootao.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: yes
- 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/mtshootao.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/mtshootao.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=mtshootao.com&force=1