Dear Charles
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Ways to reach Dear Charles directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through toast acting for the business. Report a mistake
3215 N Charles St, Baltimore 21218 · +14104247788
Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes
Places near Dear Charles that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Lao Sze Chuan90 m · chinese
- Honeygrow100 m · noodle
- Chipotle160 m · mexican
- Tamber’s190 m · indian
- Gertrude's240 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Dear Charles's website. It can read what Dear Charles offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast.
46 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 for "A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?" in Baltimore, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Baltimore and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online? | ChatGPT with a link to this site | 2026-11-13 |
Every place named in Baltimore, 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/dearcharles.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/dearcharles.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 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?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
How Dear Charles compares
326 of 873 in Baltimore
Top 37% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Bluebird Cocktail Bar B, Charro Negro B. Just below: Harbor Market B, Motte Restaurant & Bar B.
| 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 | 90% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 92% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 34% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 2,585 sites | 80% | 85% | 70.8% |
| Sites using Toast 7,521 sites | 73% | 62% | 70.8% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kajiken japanese | 79 m | F | no |
| Lao Sze Chuan chinese | 94 m | A | yes |
| Honeygrow noodle, rice, salad | 103 m | A | yes |
| Bento Sushi sushi | 123 m | D | no |
| Chipotle mexican | 162 m | A | yes |
| Tamber’s indian, american | 191 m | A | yes |
| TKK Fried Chicken chicken | 223 m | B | no |
| Gertrude's | 235 m | B | yes |
| Nuvegan Cafe vegan | 247 m | F | no |
| Boz’s Burgers burger | 255 m | B | yes |
Businesses like Dear Charles in Baltimore
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore | 873 | 55% | 38% | 70.8% |
| Sites built with BentoBox in Baltimore | 17 | 81% | 82% | 70.8% |
| Sites using Toast in Baltimore | 153 | 72% | 59% | 70.8% |
| Sites built with BentoBox and using Toast in Baltimore | 7 | 82% | 86% | 70.8% |
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 46th of 873 in Baltimore, up from 326th.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +14 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Baltimore. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
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.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: bentobox · contact page /about/: nothing new; menu page /menus/: menu schema, ordering via toast, 231 prices · What to paste
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