The Bellwether
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Ways to reach The Bellwether directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Through tock acting for the business. Report a mistake
1419 Carroll Street, Saint Louis, MO 63104 · +1-314-380-3086
Places near The Bellwether that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- SqWires Restaurant & Market370 m · american
- 1894 Cafe1.4 km · american
- Sidney Street Cafe1.6 km · american
- A&W Restaurant1.6 km · american
- Cardinals Nation1.7 km · american
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Bellwether's website. It can read what The Bellwether offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Tock.
42 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.
Named by Gemini for "A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?" in St. Louis, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in St. Louis and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-13 |
Every place named in St. Louis, question by question.
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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
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What assistants answer
Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.
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Recommended when people ask:
“A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (Gemini, by name, without a link)
How The Bellwether compares
261 of 573 in St. Louis
Top 46% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sheesh C, Tamm Avenue Bar C. Just below: The Mack C, Wing Zone C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 66% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 34% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 37,558 sites | 61% | 42% | 64.6% |
| Sites using Tock 970 sites | 73% | 64% | 64.6% |
| Sites using Toast 7,911 sites | 73% | 62% | 64.6% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| SqWires Restaurant & Market american | 366 m | C | yes |
| Moulin american | 833 m | F | no |
| Extra Wavy american | 834 m | C | no |
| Bistro 14 american | 1.2 km | F | no |
| 1894 Cafe american | 1.4 km | F | yes |
| Savage Restaurant american | 1.5 km | F | no |
| Sidney Street Cafe american | 1.6 km | B | yes |
| A&W Restaurant american | 1.6 km | C | yes |
| Sports & Social St. Louis tex-mex, american | 1.7 km | B | no |
| Cardinals Nation american | 1.7 km | B | yes |
Businesses like The Bellwether in St. Louis
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in St. Louis | 573 | 56% | 37% | 64.6% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in St. Louis | 86 | 70% | 52% | 64.6% |
| Sites using Tock in St. Louis | 11 | 73% | 55% | 64.6% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using Tock in St. Louis | 7 | 77% | 71% | 64.6% |
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 59th of 573 in St. Louis, up from 261st.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 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. How to fix 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. How to fix it
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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.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Booking through tock on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Tock works with agents through its partners Tock's terms (12 February 2026) prohibit robots, scripts, scrapers and automated systems except software expressly licensed by Tock; Google names Tock as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.exploretock.com/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.
Builder: squarespace · menu page /menu: 564 prices · What to paste
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