The Direct Index
Report · Minneapolis cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

The Depot Tavern

thedepottavern.com is largely invisible to agents.

AI assistants cannot open the website of The Depot Tavern, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Menu: thedepottavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/depotmenu-may2

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

16.9%

11 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

4

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.

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.

Where it stands

How The Depot Tavern compares

Where it stands

136 of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars

Top 85% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Haraz Coffee House F, Bordertown Coffee F. Just below: Bichota Coffee F, Thesis F.

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 HTML100%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 16 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 38,935 sites59%31%16.9%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
7th Street Entry16 mCno
Mezzo Mezzo67 mCno
Tom’s Watch Bar166 mAyes
The Saloon207 mDyes
Lyon's Pub233 mAyes
The Loon Cafe263 mCno
8th Street Grill & Taphouse443 mCno
Barra451 mDno
Sota soda475 mFno
Underground Music Cafe477 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Depot Tavern in Minneapolis cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis cafes and bars16051%26%16.9%
Sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars3462%26%16.9%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars

Crooked Pint Ale House A 100% · Mari's Watch Bar A 100% · Day Block Brewing Company A 98.5% · Tom’s Watch Bar A 88.8% · StormKing A 87.7%

The climb

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 90.8%: 12th of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars, up from 136th.

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

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (challenge:checking your browser); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  3. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it

  4. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

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

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got challenge:checking your browser; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

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.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Depot Tavern",
  "url": "https://thedepottavern.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-612-338-1828",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "North 7th Street 17",
    "postalCode": "55403",
    "addressLocality": "Minneapolis"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 44.9783509,
    "longitude": -93.2756605
  },
  "openingHours": "Su-Th 11:00-01:00; Fr 10:00-02:00; Sa 11:00-02:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday",
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "01:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://thedepottavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/depotmenu-may2026.pdf"
}
</script>
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.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR once. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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

Agent-Direct Score F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thedepottavern.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thedepottavern.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Depot Tavern

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuthedepottavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/depotmenu-may2 pdffrom the scan
HoursSu-Th 11:00-01:00; Fr 10:00-02:00; Sa 11:00-02:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-612-338-1828

Stable links that count: /go/thedepottavern.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
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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got challenge:checking your browser); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

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.

JSON-LD for the businessno