# National Restaurant Association: Agent-Direct Score C (56.9%) Site: https://www.nationalrestaurantshow.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/nationalrestaurantshow.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.) National Restaurant Association is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open National Restaurant Association's website. What National Restaurant Association offers is on another site. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Phone: +13128532525 - Address: 150 N Michigan Ave, 60601-7553, Chicago ## Nearby, also direct Places near National Restaurant Association that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Elephant & Castle (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/elephantcastle.com - The Jibarito Stop (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/toast.site - Ayayay - Mexican Eatery (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/ayayaymex.com - Miss Ricky’s (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/virginhotels.com - Wildberry Pancakes and Cafe (180 m): https://directindex.org/r/wildberrycafe.com ## What to fix first - **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+5 points) Missing: telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Menu or price list is on another site.** (+5 points) The link goes to menudirections.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. 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 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # National Restaurant Association > organization in 150 N Michigan Ave, 60601-7553, Chicago, Chicago. Phone +13128532525. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.menudirections.com/ ## About - Website: https://www.nationalrestaurantshow.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 (Organization).** address ## Since the scan of 2026-10-23 (C then) - Fixed: nothing - New: nothing ## Where it stands 1869 of 3754 in Chicago. Top 50% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 30% | no | Nearest places in the index: About Last Knife (B, 39 m, https://directindex.org/r/arlohotels.com); Elephant & Castle (C, 124 m, https://directindex.org/r/elephantcastle.com); The Jibarito Stop (C, 135 m, https://directindex.org/r/toast.site); The Southern Mac & Cheese Store (F, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/thesouthernmac.com); Ayayay - Mexican Eatery (B, 152 m, https://directindex.org/r/ayayaymex.com); Garland Bld. Coffeeshop Inc (F, 156 m, https://directindex.org/r/heavenonseven.com); Miss Ricky’s (F, 162 m, https://directindex.org/r/virginhotels.com); Wildberry Pancakes and Cafe (B, 179 m, https://directindex.org/r/wildberrycafe.com); Venteux Brasserie (F, 186 m, https://directindex.org/r/venteuxchicago.com); Pittsfield Cafe (F, 196 m, https://directindex.org/r/pittsfieldcafe.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 12 everyday questions about Chicago and named 55 places. National Restaurant Association wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago/recommended Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-23: 2026-10-23 57%, 2026-10-24 57%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/nationalrestaurantshow.com/agent-view ## Businesses like National Restaurant Association in Chicago | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 3754 | 52% | 35% | 56.9% | The best of the businesses of the same kind in Chicago: Ali's Nihari & BBQ (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alinihari.com); Amarit (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/amaritthai.com); Andie's (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/andieschicago.com); Angelo's Stuffed Pizza (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/angelosstuffedpizza.com); Aztlán Mexican Grill (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/aztlan1.com). With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 108th of 3,754 in Chicago, up from 1869th. ## The direct record What agents get for National Restaurant Association, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/nationalrestaurantshow.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.menudirections.com/ (external; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +13128532525 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/nationalrestaurantshow.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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 12 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 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/nationalrestaurantshow.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/nationalrestaurantshow.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/nationalrestaurantshow.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=nationalrestaurantshow.com&force=1