The Direct Index
Report · Montreal · scanned 2026-10-19

YEN- Cuisine Japonaise

yencuisinejaponaise.com is ready for agents.

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Ways to reach YEN- Cuisine Japonaise directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-19. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Mackay St 2157 H3H2G2 Montréal

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open YEN- Cuisine Japonaise's website. It can read what YEN- Cuisine Japonaise offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

92.3%

60 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Montreal and named 82 places. YEN- Cuisine Japonaise wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How YEN- Cuisine Japonaise compares

Where it stands

68 of 2,162 in Montreal

Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Quesada A, Sep Lai A. Just below: Ancien Four A Pizza A, Aji Bar Sushi & Izakaya MTL A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML94%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt32%no

The top 10% are the 224 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 11,547 sites65%49%92.3%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Taiyo Cité Centre-ville japanese214 mFno
DonDonYa asian, japanese228 mCno
Toyo Japanese Steakhouse japanese278 mDno
Katsuya japanese287 mCyes
TSUJIRI Montreal japanese289 mDyes
Kinka Izakaya japanese382 mByes
Gyu-Kaku japanese, barbecue400 mByes
Okeya Kyujiro japanese458 mCyes
Gyubee Japanese Grill barbecue, japanese484 mCno
Kazu japanese493 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like YEN- Cuisine Japonaise in Montreal

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Montreal2,16251%27%92.3%
Sites built with Squarespace in Montreal10369%50%92.3%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Montreal

Le Carre A 100% · Rita A 95% · East A 93.8% · Natalino A 93.8% · Kirkland Resto Bar A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 26th of 2,162 in Montreal, up from 68th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +2 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  2. Ordering through an unrecognised third party no points, but worth doing

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  3. 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

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Montreal. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /reservations: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on squarespace.

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.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "YEN- Cuisine Japonaise",
  "url": "https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Mackay St 2157",
    "postalCode": "H3H2G2",
    "addressLocality": "Montréal"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.4974793,
    "longitude": -73.5801706
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com/reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com/reservations",
        "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.

# YEN- Cuisine Japonaise

> restaurant (japanese) in Mackay St 2157 H3H2G2 Montréal, Montreal.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com/reservations (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.yencuisinejaponaise.com/menu

## About

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

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Agent-Direct Score A

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for YEN- Cuisine Japonaise

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/yencuisinejaponaise.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/montreal/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.yencuisinejaponaise.com/reservations own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.yencuisinejaponaise.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/yencuisinejaponaise.com/book, /go/yencuisinejaponaise.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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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 businessyes