# Rocksalt - Charlotte: Agent-Direct Score D (40%) Site: https://www.rocksaltrestaurants.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/rocksaltrestaurants.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Rocksalt - Charlotte is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Rocksalt - Charlotte's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Phone: 17045039945 - Address: 512 Brandywine Rd Ste 500, 28209-2228, Charlotte - Prices: 7 prices on the site, the middle one $7.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Rocksalt - Charlotte that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Osteria LuCa (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/osterialuca.com - Chopt (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/choptsalad.com - Urban Cookhouse (180 m): https://directindex.org/r/urbancookhouse.com - Velvet Taco (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/velvettaco.com - Burtons Grill & Bar of Charlotte (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/burtonsgrill.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **7 prices on the landing page, the middle one $7.00.** In Charlotte, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $10.99. ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Rocksalt - Charlotte > local business in 512 Brandywine Rd Ste 500, 28209-2228, Charlotte, Charlotte. Phone 17045039945. ## About - Website: https://www.rocksaltrestaurants.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.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **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. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 856 of 1225 in Charlotte. Top 70% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 93% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 40% | no | Nearest places in the index: Capriotti's Sandwich Shop (D, 116 m, https://directindex.org/r/capriottis.com); Flour Shop (C, 121 m, https://directindex.org/r/flourshopfood.com); Osteria LuCa (D, 162 m, https://directindex.org/r/osterialuca.com); Chopt (B, 168 m, https://directindex.org/r/choptsalad.com); Urban Cookhouse (B, 177 m, https://directindex.org/r/urbancookhouse.com); Park Road Soda Shoppe (D, 181 m, https://directindex.org/r/parkroadsodashoppe.com); Velvet Taco (A, 196 m, https://directindex.org/r/velvettaco.com); Burtons Grill & Bar of Charlotte (A, 203 m, https://directindex.org/r/burtonsgrill.com); Topsail Steamer (B, 271 m, https://directindex.org/r/topsailsteamer.com); Which Wich? (A, 274 m, https://directindex.org/r/whichwich.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 12 everyday questions about Charlotte and named 91 places. Rocksalt - Charlotte wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/charlotte/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using OpenTable 69% (51% A or B, 6152 sites); This site 40%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/rocksaltrestaurants.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Rocksalt - Charlotte in Charlotte | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Charlotte | 1225 | 56% | 38% | 40% | | Sites built with WordPress in Charlotte | 307 | 67% | 50% | 40% | | Sites using OpenTable in Charlotte | 43 | 75% | 67% | 40% | | Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Charlotte | 18 | 77% | 72% | 40% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Charlotte: Culinary Dropout (A 90.3%, https://directindex.org/r/culinarydropout.com); Mama Ricotta's (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/mamaricottas.com); Fahrenheit Charlotte (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/fahrenheitrestaurants.com); New South Kitchen & Bar (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/newsouthkitchen.com); Steak 48 (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/steak48.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 90.8%. That would be 93rd of 1,225 in Charlotte, up from 856th. ## The direct record What agents get for Rocksalt - Charlotte, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/rocksaltrestaurants.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: 17045039945 ## 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 Found one hop past the home page: contact page /contact-us/: booking via opentable. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/rocksaltrestaurants.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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/rocksaltrestaurants.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/rocksaltrestaurants.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=rocksaltrestaurants.com&force=1