The Direct Index
Report · Johannesburg · scanned 2026-10-17

The Grillhouse Melrose Arch

thegrillhouse.co.za is mostly ready for agents.

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Whiteley Road 38 Johannesburg · +27 10 446 1911

Owners

The website, graded

An AI assistant can open the website of The Grillhouse Melrose Arch. It can read what The Grillhouse Melrose Arch offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through account.dineplan.com.

70.8%

46 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online" in Johannesburg, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Johannesburg 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
Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-16

Every place named in Johannesburg, question by question.

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The badge says how many of the assistants asked named this business, with the month; it updates with every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Grillhouse Melrose Arch compares

Where it stands

21 of 94 in Johannesburg

Top 22% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Polpetta B, Vilai Lai Thai Street Food B. Just below: Yiko B, Marble B.

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 HTML70%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours10%no
Have an llms.txt10%no

The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 54,721 sites59%32%70.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Nando's chicken, portuguese238 mFno
Istanbul Kebab turkish, mediterranean262 mByes
Kleinsky's bagel, breakfast1.2 kmCno
Arbour Café and Courtyard1.3 kmCno
Kashew Restaurant2.5 kmByes
Burger King burger2.6 kmFno
Mamasamba sushi, latin_american, seafood, asian2.9 kmCno
Chunky Chau2.9 kmBno
Krispy Kreme donut2.9 kmFno
Fugazzi italian3.0 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Grillhouse Melrose Arch in Johannesburg

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Johannesburg9454%24%70.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg3859%24%70.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg

Istanbul Kebab B 84.6% · Fournos Bakery B 81.5% · Amuse-Bouche B 80% · Café del Sol Botanico B 80% · Ukkō B 73.8%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 94 in Johannesburg.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  3. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

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

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · menu page /main-menu/: nothing new

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 wordpress is in the guides.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

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 Grillhouse Melrose Arch",
  "url": "https://thegrillhouse.co.za/melrose-arch/",
  "telephone": "+27 10 446 1911",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Whiteley Road 38",
    "addressLocality": "Johannesburg"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -26.1316774,
    "longitude": 28.0682692
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "steak house"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://thegrillhouse.co.za/main-menu/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Grillhouse Melrose Arch

> restaurant (steak house) in Whiteley Road 38 Johannesburg, Johannesburg. Phone +27 10 446 1911.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://thegrillhouse.co.za/main-menu/

## About

- Website: https://thegrillhouse.co.za/melrose-arch/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Grillhouse Melrose Arch

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/thegrillhouse.co.za, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/johannesburg/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuthegrillhouse.co.za/main-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+27 10 446 1911

Stable links that count: /go/thegrillhouse.co.za/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

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.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