Alley Cat

What to fix first

1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

2. 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

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 cafes and bars. 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.
• AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
• Structured data present (LocalBusiness) but without address, phone or hours
• Booking through sevenrooms on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
• SevenRooms works with agents through its partners SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://sevenrooms.com/terms-of-service/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

What to paste

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

Structured data (JSON-LD) Copy

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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Alley Cat",
  "url": "https://www.thealleycatchicago.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Division Street 2013",
    "postalCode": "60622",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.9030259,
    "longitude": -87.6778211
  },
  "openingHours": "Su-Th 17:00-24:00; Fr-Sa 17:00-02:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday",
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thealleycatchicago",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thealleycatchicago",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt Copy

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

# Alley Cat

> bar or pub in West Division Street 2013 60622 Chicago, Chicago cafes and bars.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thealleycatchicago (through sevenrooms acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Su-Th 17:00-24:00; Fr-Sa 17:00-02:00

## About

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

249 of 806 in Chicago cafes and bars

Top 31% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cafe L'Appetito C, 11 Degrees North C. Just below: Ashbary Coffee House C, Bourgeois Pig Cafe C.

The top tenth is the 82 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Nearest places in the index

Businesses like Alley Cat in Chicago cafes and bars

The best of Using SevenRooms in Chicago cafes and bars

Diego A 93.8% · Bar Tutto B 83.1% · Marshall’s Landing B 83.1%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 87.7%: 23rd of 806 in Chicago cafes and bars, up from 249th.

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 Alley Cat

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/thealleycatchicago.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Stable links that count: /go/thealleycatchicago.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.

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.

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

SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About SevenRooms · all vendors.

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

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.

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.

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

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