The Direct Index
Report · Minneapolis · scanned 2026-10-16

Hell's Kitchen

hellskitcheninc.com is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Hell's Kitchen directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Thu 08:00–21:00 · Fri–Sat 08:00–22:00 · Sun 08:00–21:00

80 South 9th Street, Minneapolis 55402 · +1 612 332 4700

Nearby, also direct

Places near Hell's Kitchen that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Hell's Kitchen's website. It can read what Hell's Kitchen offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

95.4%

76.3 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-19: completed, an agent can get as far as the step before confirming. A OpenTable widget renders on the page and can be used without a login.

Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "Good breakfast near the centre tomorrow from 8. Can I book?" in Minneapolis, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Minneapolis and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Good breakfast near the centre tomorrow from 8. Can I book?Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-06

Every place named in Minneapolis, 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.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Good breakfast near the centre tomorrow from 8. Can I book?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Hell's Kitchen compares

Where it stands

22 of 872 in Minneapolis

Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Afro Deli & Grill A, Clay Oven A. Just below: Hermanos Locos Tacos A, Ichiddo Ramen A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML94%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours60%yes
Have an llms.txt16%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 34,188 sites61%41%95.4%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
8th Street Grill american84 mCno
Charley's Grilled Subs american120 mByes
Dave's Downtown american145 mByes
Krona Bar & Grill american291 mCyes
1-Potato-2 american328 mCyes
TGI Friday's american409 mByes
Gold Room american476 mByes
Mason's Restaurant Barre american492 mFno
Cosmos Restaurant american499 mByes
Sphere american534 mBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis87256%38%95.4%
Sites built with Squarespace in Minneapolis14775%69%95.4%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 872 in Minneapolis.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  2. 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

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

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

Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, 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 on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · menu page /day: nothing new; booking page /reservations: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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. Show the details