The Grand
thegrandhamilton.ca is ready for agents.
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Ways to reach The Grand directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-12. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Thu 11:30–23:00 · Fri–Sat 11:30–01:00 · Sun 11:00–22:00
69 Augusta Street, L8N 1R1 · +1-289-389-5552
Places near The Grand that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- B-Side Social180 m · american
- King's Pizza and Wings220 m · sandwich
- lobby Hamilton230 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Grand's website. It can read what The Grand offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
56 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 ChatGPT and Gemini for "A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?" and "Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table" in Hamilton, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Hamilton and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 2 of the 2 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 | 2026-11-12 |
| Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table. | ChatGPT with a link to this site | 2026-11-12 |
Every place named in Hamilton, 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.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thegrandhamilton.ca"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/thegrandhamilton.ca.svg" alt="Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.
Recommended when people ask:
“A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
How The Grand compares
64 of 548 in Hamilton
Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pizza Inferno A, Poke Co A. Just below: The Keg A, The Works A.
| 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 | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 52% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 43% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 34,188 sites | 61% | 41% | 86.2% |
| Sites using Toast 6,753 sites | 73% | 62% | 86.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peabody | 15 m | F | no |
| Ciao Bella italian | 153 m | D | no |
| The Ship | 161 m | F | no |
| B-Side Social american, barbecue | 183 m | B | yes |
| Plank Restaurant and Bar | 192 m | B | no |
| Burgerwale burger, indian | 212 m | C | no |
| Shivshakti Kathiyavadi Restaurant indian | 216 m | F | no |
| King's Pizza and Wings sandwich, pizza, chicken | 222 m | C | yes |
| lobby Hamilton | 230 m | B | yes |
| Steve's Open Kitchen | 230 m | F | no |
Businesses like The Grand in Hamilton
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Hamilton | 548 | 56% | 35% | 86.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Hamilton | 46 | 74% | 67% | 86.2% |
| Sites using Toast in Hamilton | 15 | 79% | 67% | 86.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using Toast in Hamilton | 4 | 87% | 100% | 86.2% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 16th of 548 in Hamilton, up from 64th.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete +4 points
Missing: address, telephone. How to fix it
- Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points
Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. 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
Send the fixes to your web person
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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.
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
Builder: squarespace · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /menu-2: nothing new; booking page /reservations: nothing new · What to paste
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