The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-14

Steak 'n Shake

steaknshake.com is partly visible to agents.

Menu: www.steaknshake.com/menu_specials/half-price-happy-hour/

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

C
67.7%

44 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Ordering only through ubereats +12 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

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

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Chicago. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "FastFoodRestaurant",
  "name": "Steak 'n Shake",
  "url": "https://www.steaknshake.com/locations/il-rosemont-touhy-avenue/",
  "telephone": "+1 847 299 3944",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Touhy Avenue 10421",
    "postalCode": "60018",
    "addressLocality": "Rosemont"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 42.0089814,
    "longitude": -87.8880122
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 10:00-00:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "burger"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.steaknshake.com/menu_specials/half-price-happy-hour/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Steak 'n Shake

> fast food restaurant (burger) in West Touhy Avenue 10421 60018 Rosemont, Chicago. Phone +1 847 299 3944.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.steaknshake.com/menu_specials/half-price-happy-hour/

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 10:00-00:00

## About

- Website: https://www.steaknshake.com/locations/il-rosemont-touhy-avenue/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

631 of 1,561 in Chicago

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sari's Restaurant & Bar C, Schwa C. Just below: The Art of Pizza C, The Great Escape C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML97%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours52%no
Have an llms.txt19%no

The top tenth is the 157 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites57%26%67.7%
Sites using Uber Eats 653 sites63%34%67.7%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Naf Naf Grill middle_eastern75 mBno
Sultan Kabob middle_eastern103 mCyes
Mr. Broast chicken117 mByes
LongHorn Steakhouse steak_house142 mByes
Ghareeb Nawaz O'Hare indian, pakastani563 mByes
First Watch american, breakfast883 mFno
Land & Lake american1.1 kmCyes
Which Wich? sandwich1.1 kmByes
Taco John's mexican1.2 kmByes
Tiffany's Restaurant & Cafe american1.5 kmBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Steak 'n Shake in Chicago

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Chicago1,56150%38%67.7%
Built with WordPress in Chicago32470%51%67.7%
Using Uber Eats in Chicago568%40%67.7%
Built with WordPress and using Uber Eats in Chicago168%0%67.7%

The best of Using Uber Eats in Chicago

Sabor A Café Niles - Steakhouse & Live Music Venue A 95.4% · Daebak Korean BBQ B 72.3% · Greek Corner Gyros D 53.8% · Charlie's Restaurant D 52.3%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Ordering only through ubereats; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 38th of 1,561 in Chicago, up from 631st.

This site appears in 2 cities (2 places on steaknshake.com). Every city it is in →

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Steak 'n Shake

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.steaknshake.com/menu_specials/half-price-happy-hour/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Su 10:00-00:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1 847 299 3944

Stable links that count: /go/steaknshake.com/menu 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
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
Uber Eats, read 2026-10-15
Partners only

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

Uber's US terms of use (12 October 2026) bar scripts that burden the services and any use to build software or train AI; its Claude and ChatGPT integrations only browse menus, with checkout in the Uber Eats app. Source. About Uber Eats · all vendors.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
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 businessyes
Assistants

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.

Badge

Show the score

Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/steaknshake.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/steaknshake.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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.

Rescan now Markdown

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.

Send the fixes to your web person
One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.