The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne · scanned 2026-10-17

The Firehouse

thefirehouse.com.au is partly visible to agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of The Firehouse. It can read what The Firehouse offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SevenRooms.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Book directly: www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thefirehouse through sevenrooms acting for the business · Menu: www.thefirehouse.com.au/menu-2

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

64.6%

42 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 Firehouse compares

Where it stands

446 of 966 in Melbourne

Top 46% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pepe's Italian & Liquor C, Shanghai Village Dumpling House C. Just below: Via Condotti C, bar libretto C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML88%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours46%no
Have an llms.txt15%no

The top tenth is the 97 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 9,908 sites66%51%64.6%
Sites using SevenRooms 1,012 sites70%52%64.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
TGI Fridays american251 mByes
The Pancake Parlour pancake267 mAyes
Royal Punjab indian275 mCno
SSAM Korean BBQ korean350 mDyes
Hunter & Barrel steak_house356 mAyes
Suburban Dining + Rooftop415 mAno
Pizzalicious pizza1.1 kmCno
Sassy Thai thai1.2 kmDno
Chingtao chinese1.2 kmByes
Pizzeria Express pizza1.3 kmFyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Firehouse in Melbourne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne96658%37%64.6%
Sites built with Squarespace in Melbourne16077%72%64.6%
Sites using SevenRooms in Melbourne4072%55%64.6%
Sites built with Squarespace and using SevenRooms in Melbourne1576%80%64.6%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using SevenRooms in Melbourne

Le Bon Ton A 92.3% · The Mint A 87.7% · At The Heads A 86.2% · Cargo B 81.5% · New Northcote Brewhouse B 81.5%

The climb

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 89th of 966 in Melbourne, up from 446th.

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. 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

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 Melbourne. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /menu-2: nothing new

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 squarespace is in the guides.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Firehouse",
  "url": "https://thefirehouse.com.au/",
  "telephone": "+61 3 8820 6253",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Maroondah Highway 253-257",
    "postalCode": "3134"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.8134015,
    "longitude": 145.2329957
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Tu 16:00-23:00; We-Su 12:00-00:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thefirehouse",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.thefirehouse.com.au/menu-2",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thefirehouse",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Firehouse

> restaurant in Maroondah Highway 253-257 3134, Melbourne. Phone +61 3 8820 6253.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thefirehouse (through sevenrooms acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.thefirehouse.com.au/menu-2

## Opening hours

Mo-Tu 16:00-23:00; We-Su 12:00-00:00

## About

- Website: https://thefirehouse.com.au/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thefirehouse.com.au"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thefirehouse.com.au.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" 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 Firehouse

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/thefirehouse.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.sevenrooms.com/reservations/thefirehouse vendor on own site: SevenRoomsfound by the scan of 2026-10-17, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.thefirehouse.com.au/menu-2 html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Tu 16:00-23:00; We-Su 12:00-00:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+61 3 8820 6253

Stable links that count: /go/thefirehouse.com.au/book, /go/thefirehouse.com.au/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
Vendor terms for agents
SevenRooms, read 2026-10-15
Through 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. Source. About SevenRooms · all vendors.

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 businessno