The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-23

Rice Fields

rice-fields.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookCallWebsite

Ways to reach Rice Fields directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

318 W Adams St, 60606, Chicago · (312) 630-9588

Nearby, also direct

Places near Rice Fields 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 Rice Fields'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 on the site.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

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.

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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 12 everyday questions about Chicago and named 31 places. Rice Fields wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Rice Fields compares

Where it stands

1,687 of 3,640 in Chicago

Top 46% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Q'bo Latin Cafe Inc. C, Red Hot Chicago C. Just below: Rickshaw Pakistani & Indian Street Eats C, Ringo Japanese Kitchen C.

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 HTML94%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours58%no
Have an llms.txt29%no

The top 10% are the 370 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Ajida japanese715 mDno
Omakase Yume japanese814 mFyes
Ryo Sushi sushi, japanese903 mFno
Yūgen Restaurant japanese947 mByes
Kumiko japanese968 mAyes
Izumi japanese1.1 kmFno
Mako sushi, japanese1.1 kmAyes
sushiDOKKU japanese, sushi, asian1.2 kmByes
High Five Ramen japanese, ramen1.2 kmByes
Yokocho japanese1.2 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Rice Fields in Chicago

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Chicago3,64052%35%61.5%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Chicago

Ali's Nihari & BBQ A 100% · Amarit A 100% · Andie's A 100% · Angelo's Stuffed Pizza A 100% · Aztlán Mexican Grill A 100%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 104th of 3,640 in Chicago, up from 1687th.

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 structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

  3. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. 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 Chicago. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: unknown · contact page /rice-story: nothing new; booking page /appointment-enquiries: nothing new

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 your builder.

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Rice Fields",
  "url": "http://rice-fields.com",
  "telephone": "(312) 630-9588",
  "address": "318 W Adams St, 60606, Chicago",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.87961233164928,
    "longitude": -87.63581862116754
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.rice-fields.com/appointment-enquiries",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Rice Fields

> local business (japanese) in 318 W Adams St, 60606, Chicago, Chicago. Phone (312) 630-9588.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.rice-fields.com/appointment-enquiries (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: http://rice-fields.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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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 Rice Fields

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/rice-fields.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.rice-fields.com/appointment-enquiries own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone(312) 630-9588

Stable links that count: /go/rice-fields.com/book 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
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
Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
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 businessno