The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-14

The Kennison

thekennison.com is hard for agents to use.

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D
40.5%

26.3 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

5

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No booking or ordering path at all +15 points

    Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  4. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  5. 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

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

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 your builder is in the guides.

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 Kennison",
  "url": "https://www.thekennison.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-312-981-7070",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "North Lincoln Avenue 1800",
    "postalCode": "60614",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.9153668,
    "longitude": -87.6345049
  },
  "openingHours": "Su-Th 17:00-22:00; Fr-Sa 17:00-23:00; Sa-Su 09:00-14:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday",
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "14:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american"
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Kennison

> restaurant (american) in North Lincoln Avenue 1800 60614 Chicago, Chicago. Phone +1-312-981-7070.

## Opening hours

Su-Th 17:00-22:00; Fr-Sa 17:00-23:00; Sa-Su 09:00-14:00

## About

- Website: https://www.thekennison.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

993 of 1,720 in Chicago

Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Mercadito D, Thai Pastry Restaurant D. Just below: Cho Sun Ok Restaurant D, Delmonico Restaurant D.

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 HTML97%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%no
Have an llms.txt18%no

The top tenth is the 173 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Twin Anchors Restaurant & Tavern american, ribs435 mAyes
1959 Kitchen & Bar pub, american453 mByes
RJ Grunts american548 mCyes
Yard House american1.3 kmByes
John's Food and Wine american1.3 kmCyes
Blue Door Kitchen & Garden american1.4 kmFno
Maple & Ash american1.6 kmCyes
The Bellevue american1.6 kmCno
North Pond american1.6 kmCno
Gibson's Bar & Steakhouse american1.6 kmByes
Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
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 businessyes
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.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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Owners

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