Rice Restaurant & Market
ricedc.com is mostly ready for agents.
Order directly: direct.chownow.com/order/3725/locations/4822 through chownow acting for the business
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46.3 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points
Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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. How to fix it
- ChowNow's terms do not allow agents; a direct form on your own site would +5 points
ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://get.chownow.com/terms-of-service. An agent that books or orders there acts against the vendor's terms; a form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. How to fix it About this vendor
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- Structured data present (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Ordering through chownow on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · 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.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using ChowNow 257 sites | 72% | 54% | 71.2% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beau Thai thai | 892 m | A | yes |
| The Regent Thai Cuisine thai | 979 m | A | yes |
| Sura thai, chinese, japanese | 1.2 km | B | yes |
| Soi 38 thai | 1.5 km | A | yes |
| Baan Siam thai | 1.8 km | C | yes |
| Aroi Thai thai | 1.8 km | A | yes |
| Absolute Thai Restaurant thai | 1.8 km | A | yes |
| Donsak thai | 2.2 km | A | yes |
| Pantry Thai & Sushi thai | 2.9 km | A | yes |
| Paragon Thai Restaurant thai | 3.5 km | A | yes |
Businesses like Rice Restaurant & Market in Washington, DC
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Using ChowNow in Washington, DC | 14 | 67% | 36% | 71.2% |
The best of Using ChowNow in Washington, DC
Parthenon Restaurant & Chevy Chase Lounge A 100% · Poki DC B 84.6% · Thip Khao B 73.8% · Mexicali Blues B 72.8% · Kouzina Angelina's Pizzeria C 66.2%
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 Rice Restaurant & Market
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/ricedc.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | direct.chownow.com/order/3725/locations/4822 vendor on own site: ChowNow | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Mo-Su 11:30-22:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1-202-234-2400 |
Stable links that count: /go/ricedc.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.
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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents ChowNow, read 2026-10-15 | No |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Source. About ChowNow · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware
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.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | yes |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
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.
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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.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.