The Chairman

What to fix first

1. Structured data is incomplete +5 points

   Missing: address, opening hours. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Brussels. 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 (Organization) phone
• Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
• Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.

Builder: wordpress · 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 wordpress 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Chairman",
  "url": "https://thechairman.be/",
  "telephone": "+32 2 274 13 30",
  "email": "contact@thechairman.be",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.8569295,
    "longitude": 4.353963
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 12:00-14:30,18:00-22:00; Fr 12:00-14:30,18:00-23:00; Sa 18:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "14:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "18:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "14:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "18:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "18:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://thechairman.be/reservations/",
  "hasMenu": "https://thechairman.be/#Menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://thechairman.be/reservations/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

138 of 1,070 in Brussels

Top 13% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Rooftop 58 A, Spaghetti A. Just below: Vitum A, Al Solito Posto A.

The top tenth is the 108 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Nearest places in the index

Businesses like The Chairman in Brussels

The best of Built with WordPress in Brussels

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The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 100th of 1,070 in Brussels, up from 138th.

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 The Chairman

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/thechairman.be, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/brussels/direct.json.

Stable links that count: /go/thechairman.be/book, /go/thechairman.be/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.

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.

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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/thechairman.be"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thechairman.be.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>

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