Northern China BBQ
northernchinabbq.com is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Northern China BBQ directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through chowbus_pos acting for the business. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon closed · Tue–Sun 11:00–14:00, 16:30–23:30
9th Street 294 94103 San Francisco · 415-374-0850
Places near Northern China BBQ that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Magic Wok390 m · chinese
- Letssweet Kitchen420 m · chinese
- Golden Phoenix790 m · chinese
- Dumpling Home970 m · chinese
- Gyu-Kaku1.2 km · japanese
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Northern China BBQ'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.
47 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 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.
The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about San Francisco and named 113 places. Northern China BBQ wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Northern China BBQ compares
679 of 2,332 in San Francisco
Top 29% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Noodles & Company B, North India B. Just below: Oren's Hummus B, Pho Huynh Hiep 2 - Kevin's Noodle House B.
| 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 | 89% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 55% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | yes |
The top 10% are the 236 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Wix 42,583 sites | 54% | 31% | 72.3% |
| Sites using Chowbus POS 132 sites | 67% | 58% | 72.3% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| HK Lounge Bistro chinese | 376 m | B | no |
| Magic Wok chinese | 394 m | B | yes |
| Letssweet Kitchen chinese | 420 m | D | yes |
| Cathead's BBQ barbecue | 503 m | D | no |
| Shanghai China Restaurant chinese | 547 m | F | no |
| Golden Phoenix chinese | 788 m | A | yes |
| Dumpling Home chinese, dumpling | 971 m | F | yes |
| The Happy Crane chinese | 1.1 km | C | no |
| San Francisco American Restaurant barbecue | 1.1 km | F | no |
| Gyu-Kaku japanese, barbecue | 1.2 km | B | yes |
Businesses like Northern China BBQ in San Francisco
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in San Francisco | 2,332 | 49% | 32% | 72.3% |
| Sites built with Wix in San Francisco | 61 | 60% | 43% | 72.3% |
| Sites using Chowbus POS in San Francisco | 5 | 55% | 20% | 72.3% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in San Francisco | 3 | 54% | 33% | 72.3% |
The best of the sites using Chowbus POS in San Francisco
Mission Chinese Food C 69.2% · Au Sushi C 55.4% · NoodlePanda D 46.2% · 川香园 Sichuan 1860 F 33.8%
After the top fixes
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 208th of 2,332 in San Francisco, up from 679th.
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.
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. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in San Francisco. 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.
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone
- Ordering through chowbus_pos on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
Builder: wix
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": "Northern China BBQ",
"url": "https://www.northernchinabbq.com",
"telephone": "415-374-0850",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "9th Street 294",
"postalCode": "94103",
"addressLocality": "San Francisco",
"addressCountry": "US"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 37.7738129,
"longitude": -122.4119265
},
"openingHours": "Tu-Su 11:00-14:00,16:30-23:30",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday",
"Saturday",
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "11:00",
"closes": "14:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday",
"Saturday",
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "16:30",
"closes": "23:30"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"barbecue",
"chinese"
],
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/15458",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
Own this business?
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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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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What agents get for Northern China BBQ
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/northernchinabbq.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-francisco/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/15458 vendor on own site: Chowbus POS | found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Tu-Su 11:00-14:00,16:30-23:30 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | 415-374-0850 |
Stable links that count: /go/northernchinabbq.com/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.
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 Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents | no |
| Vendor terms for agents Chowbus POS, read | 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. About Chowbus POS · all vendors.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |