# Pampa BBQ: Agent-Direct Score D (49.2%)

Site: http://pampabbq.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/pampabbq.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.)
Pampa BBQ is hard for agents to use.
AI assistants can't open Pampa BBQ's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://ordering.chownow.com/order/10360/locations (through chownow acting for the business)
- Menu: https://pampabbq.com/menu
- Phone: +16505245334
- Address: 5919 3rd St, 94124-3103, San Francisco

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Pampa BBQ that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Basil the Bold - Thai Bowls (0 m): https://directindex.org/r/basilthebold.com
- Kawashima’s Kitchen (130 m): https://directindex.org/r/kawashimaskitchen.com
- Gumbo Social (790 m): https://directindex.org/r/gumbosocial.com
- Hong Kong BBQ Restaurant (860 m): https://directindex.org/r/hongkongharvard.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2023.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In San Francisco, 69% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Ordering through chownow on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
1338 of 2392 in San Francisco. Top 56% 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 | 89% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 55% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Basil the Bold - Thai Bowls (B, 1 m, https://directindex.org/r/basilthebold.com); Limon Rotisserie (F, 89 m, https://directindex.org/r/limonrotisserie.com); Kawashima’s Kitchen (A, 129 m, https://directindex.org/r/kawashimaskitchen.com); Frank Grizzly's (C, 256 m, https://directindex.org/r/frankgrizzly.com); Montecristo Restaurant (C, 406 m, https://directindex.org/r/netwaiter.com); Queen's Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe (F, 667 m, https://directindex.org/r/queenslapoboys.com); Gumbo Social (F, 789 m, https://directindex.org/r/gumbosocial.com); Early Bird Tacos - Catering (B, 792 m, https://directindex.org/r/earlybirdtacos.com); Hong Kong BBQ Restaurant (B, 856 m, https://directindex.org/r/hongkongharvard.com); Word A Cafe (F, 903 m, https://directindex.org/r/wordacafe.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 San Francisco and named 113 places. Pampa BBQ wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/san-francisco/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 35% (9% A or B, 7300 sites); Sites using ChowNow 72% (54% A or B, 1059 sites); This site 49.2%.

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

## Businesses like Pampa BBQ in San Francisco

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in San Francisco | 2392 | 49% | 32% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in San Francisco | 51 | 32% | 8% | 49.2% |
| Sites using ChowNow in San Francisco | 24 | 70% | 46% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using ChowNow in San Francisco | 1 | 49% | 0% | 49.2% |

The best of the sites using ChowNow in San Francisco: Cajun House (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/cajunhouse.info); Crepes on Cole (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/crepesoncole.com); Rocketbird (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/rocketbirdchx.com); Barbara Pinseria & Cocktail Bar (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/sfbarbara.com); Hong Kong BBQ Restaurant (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/hongkongharvard.com).

With the fix above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 218th of 2,392 in San Francisco, up from 1338th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Pampa BBQ, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/pampabbq.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://ordering.chownow.com/order/10360/locations (vendor on own site: ChowNow; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://pampabbq.com/menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +16505245334
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/pampabbq.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/pampabbq.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
- Vendor terms for agents, ChowNow: Not stated. ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines; they do not address an agent placing an order for a person, and no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://get.chownow.com/terms-of-service

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/pampabbq.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/pampabbq.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=pampabbq.com&force=1