The Direct Index
Report · San Francisco · scanned 2026-10-24

Northern China BBQ

northernchinabbq.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

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

Nearby, also direct

Places near Northern China BBQ that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

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.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

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 →

Where it stands

How Northern China BBQ compares

Where it stands

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 doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML89%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours55%no
Have an llms.txt25%yes

The top 10% are the 236 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 42,583 sites54%31%72.3%
Sites using Chowbus POS 132 sites67%58%72.3%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
HK Lounge Bistro chinese376 mBno
Magic Wok chinese394 mByes
Letssweet Kitchen chinese420 mDyes
Cathead's BBQ barbecue503 mDno
Shanghai China Restaurant chinese547 mFno
Golden Phoenix chinese788 mAyes
Dumpling Home chinese, dumpling971 mFyes
The Happy Crane chinese1.1 kmCno
San Francisco American Restaurant barbecue1.1 kmFno
Gyu-Kaku japanese, barbecue1.2 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Northern China BBQ in San Francisco

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in San Francisco2,33249%32%72.3%
Sites built with Wix in San Francisco6160%43%72.3%
Sites using Chowbus POS in San Francisco555%20%72.3%
Sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in San Francisco354%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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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

  2. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

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

Fix kit

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>
Owners

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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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

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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The direct record

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.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderpos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/15458 vendor on own site: Chowbus POSfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menunone on record
HoursTu-Su 11:00-14:00,16:30-23:30 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone415-374-0850

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.

Transactable

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.

Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes