# Restaurant 18: Agent-Direct Score C (61.5%)

Site: https://www.restaurant18.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/restaurant18.com
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Restaurant 18 is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Restaurant 18. It can read what Restaurant 18 offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.restaurant18.com/menu
- Phone: + (613) 244-1188

## What to fix first
- **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (cloudflare_challenge), ClaudeBot (cloudflare_challenge), PerplexityBot (cloudflare_challenge) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# Restaurant 18

> restaurant (regional) in York Street 18 K1N 5T5, Ottawa. Phone + (613) 244-1188.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.restaurant18.com/menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 16:30-22:00; Fr,Sa 16:30-23:00

## About

- Website: https://www.restaurant18.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 key AI user agents.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **OpenTable works with agents through its partners.** OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
226 of 504 in Ottawa. Top 45% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Alora (B, 104 m, https://directindex.org/r/aloraottawa.com); Starling (A, 153 m, https://directindex.org/r/starlingottawa.ca); Shakey's (C, 728 m, https://directindex.org/r/shakeyshomestyle.com); Beckta (B, 780 m, https://directindex.org/r/beckta.com); Gongfu Bao (A, 1492 m, https://directindex.org/r/gongfu.ca); Joey (B, 3173 m, https://directindex.org/r/joeyrestaurants.com); La Pataterie Hulloise (D, 3377 m, https://directindex.org/r/lapatateriehulloise.com); Thyme & Again (F, 4347 m, https://directindex.org/r/thymeandagain.ca); Petit Bill's Bistro (B, 4517 m, https://directindex.org/r/petitbillsbistro.com).

## What assistants answer
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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 49% (23% A or B, 7935 sites); Sites using OpenTable 65% (40% A or B, 2156 sites); This site 61.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/restaurant18.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Restaurant 18 in Ottawa

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa | 504 | 54% | 35% | 61.5% |
| Sites built with Wix in Ottawa | 43 | 56% | 30% | 61.5% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Ottawa | 17 | 56% | 18% | 61.5% |
| Sites built with Wix and using OpenTable in Ottawa | 1 | 62% | 0% | 61.5% |

The best of the sites using OpenTable in Ottawa: Milestones (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/milestonesrestaurants.com); Ironstone Grill (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/marshesgolfclub.com); Rosebowl Steak & Seafood (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/rosebowlsteakhouse.com); EVOO Greek Kitchen (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/evoogreekkitchen.ca); Lexington Smokehouse & Bar (C 64.6%, https://directindex.org/r/lexingtonottawa.com).

With the two fixes above (Booking only through opentable; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: 10th of 504 in Ottawa, up from 226th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Restaurant 18, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/restaurant18.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.restaurant18.com/menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 16:30-22:00; Fr,Sa 16:30-23:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: + (613) 244-1188
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/restaurant18.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, OpenTable: Through partners. OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 15 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 3 | 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/restaurant18.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: yes
- 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/restaurant18.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/restaurant18.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=restaurant18.com&force=1