Potbelly
potbelly.com could not be reached by the scanner (challenge:attention required). Some hosts refuse requests from Cloudflare's network; the finding below says what we saw, and a rescan is free.
0 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level
thing to fix
Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- The site could not be read at all
A bot challenge stands in front of the site (challenge:attention required); a plain fetch never reaches the page. A real browser was tried as well and got challenge:title.
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got challenge:attention required; a real browser got challenge:title too.; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
Not ranked yet in Washington, DC
The ranking refreshes hourly; this site joins it on the next refresh.
| What the top tenth 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 | 100% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |
The top tenth is the 148 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunkin' donut, coffee_shop | 19 m | F | no |
| TGI Fridays american | 98 m | C | yes |
| Silver Diner american, diner | 189 m | B | yes |
| Sushi Jin sushi | 226 m | D | no |
| Five Guys burger | 872 m | A | yes |
| Hook & Reel Cajun Seafood & Bar cajun, seafood | 882 m | A | yes |
| Pho Golden Star vietnamese | 886 m | F | no |
| DQ Grill & Chill ice_cream, burger, chicken | 914 m | C | yes |
| Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings chicken | 917 m | B | yes |
| Wingstop wings | 925 m | D | no |
Businesses like Potbelly in Washington, DC
This site appears in 6 cities (29 places on potbelly.com). Every city it is in →
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What agents get for Potbelly
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-15 found no booking or ordering link on potbelly.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/potbelly.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | none on record |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Not measured
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| JSON-LD for the business | no |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/potbelly.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/potbelly.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
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