# Spice on 9th: Agent-Direct Score D (50.8%)

Site: https://spicekitchenincubator.org
Report: https://directindex.org/r/spicekitchenincubator.org
Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Spice on 9th is hard for agents to use.
An AI assistant can open Spice on 9th's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +1-385-202-5207
- Address: West 900 South 422A 84101 Salt Lake City
- Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon closed; Tue–Thu 17:00–21:00; Fri–Sat 16:00–21:00; Sun 15:00–20:00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Spice on 9th that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Culinary Dropout (320 m): https://directindex.org/r/culinarydropout.com
- Doner and Company (460 m): https://directindex.org/r/donerandcompany.com
- Vertical Diner (470 m): https://directindex.org/r/verticaldiner.com
- Rusty Birds Cafe (500 m): https://directindex.org/r/rustybirdscafe.com
- Salt City Barbecue (500 m): https://directindex.org/r/saltcitybbq.co

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **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 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)
- **The footer says © 2023.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Spice on 9th",
  "url": "https://spicekitchenincubator.org",
  "telephone": "+1-385-202-5207",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West 900 South 422A",
    "postalCode": "84101",
    "addressLocality": "Salt Lake City"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7500021,
    "longitude": -111.903442
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Th 17:00-21:00; Fr-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su 15:00-20:00; Mo off",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "15:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Spice on 9th

> restaurant in West 900 South 422A 84101 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City. Phone +1-385-202-5207.

## Opening hours

Tu-Th 17:00-21:00; Fr-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su 15:00-20:00; Mo off

## About

- Website: https://spicekitchenincubator.org
- 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 main AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** no address, phone or hours in it

## Where it stands
220 of 309 in Salt Lake City. Top 71% 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 | 100% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 77% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 61% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Culinary Dropout (A, 323 m, https://directindex.org/r/culinarydropout.com); Doner and Company (B, 456 m, https://directindex.org/r/donerandcompany.com); Vertical Diner (C, 467 m, https://directindex.org/r/verticaldiner.com); Rusty Birds Cafe (A, 498 m, https://directindex.org/r/rustybirdscafe.com); Salt City Barbecue (B, 500 m, https://directindex.org/r/saltcitybbq.co); Slackwater Pizzeria (A, 536 m, https://directindex.org/r/slackwaterpizzeria.com); Laziz Kitchen (B, 661 m, https://directindex.org/r/lazizkitchen.com); Junah (C, 662 m, https://directindex.org/r/junahslc.com); Central 9th Market (F, 662 m, https://directindex.org/r/central9th.com); El Pollo Loco (B, 697 m, https://directindex.org/r/elpolloloco.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 22 everyday questions about Salt Lake City and named 98 places. Spice on 9th wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/salt-lake-city/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 32150 sites); This site 50.8%.

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

## Businesses like Spice on 9th in Salt Lake City

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Salt Lake City | 309 | 62% | 48% | 50.8% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Salt Lake City | 38 | 73% | 58% | 50.8% |

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Salt Lake City: Momomaru (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/rollwithmomomaru.com); Muertos Cantina (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/muertoscantina.com); Pizzeria Limone (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/pizzerialimone.com); Slackwater Pizzeria (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/slackwaterpizzeria.com); Greek Souvlaki (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/greeksouvlaki.com).

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 20th of 309 in Salt Lake City, up from 220th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Spice on 9th, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/spicekitchenincubator.org
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Tu-Th 17:00-21:00; Fr-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su 15:00-20:00; Mo off (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-385-202-5207

## 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 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/spicekitchenincubator.org
- 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/spicekitchenincubator.org/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/spicekitchenincubator.org/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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=spicekitchenincubator.org&force=1