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

Chez Nguyen

cheznguyenrestaurant.ca is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

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

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mo-Th 11:00-23:00; Fr-Su 11:00-23:59

8 Street SW 1436 T2R 1R7 Calgary · +1 403 454 8386

Owners

The website's grade

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

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

2

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.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "A cheap lunch menu near the centre" in Calgary, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Calgary and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A cheap lunch menu near the centre.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-16

Every place named in Calgary, 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 2 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.

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Recommended when people ask:
“A cheap lunch menu near the centre.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Chez Nguyen compares

Where it stands

339 of 1,362 in Calgary

Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cassis Bistro B, Chef's N Farmers B. Just below: Chili Club Thai House B, Club House Family Restaurant and Lounge B.

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 HTML98%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours63%no
Have an llms.txt39%no

The top 10% are the 144 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Clover 208 sites65%45%73.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Golden Bell vietnamese452 mFno
NAM Vietnamese Kitchen vietnamese465 mCyes
Pho Daddy vietnamese723 mByes
Nhớ Saigòn vietnamese878 mDno
Ha Long Bay vietnamese1.3 kmCyes
Banh Mi Boy vietnamese1.5 kmAyes
Che Bong Dessert & Snack vietnamese1.8 kmCno
Pho HouZ vietnamese1.9 kmCyes
Pho Hoai Vietnamese Noodle House vietnamese1.9 kmByes
Pho City vietnamese1.9 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Chez Nguyen in Calgary

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Calgary1,36257%39%73.8%
Sites using Clover in Calgary2162%48%73.8%

The best of the sites using Clover in Calgary

Persian Plate A 87.7% · Mot To Vietnamese Restaurant A 86.2% · VS Dhosa A 86.2% · Ryuko South - Japanese Kitchen + Bar B 84.6% · Dosirak B 78.5%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 37th of 1,362 in Calgary, up from 339th.

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. 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

  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

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 Calgary. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /contact: 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 your builder.

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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": "Chez Nguyen",
  "url": "https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/",
  "telephone": "+1 403 454 8386",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "8 Street SW 1436",
    "postalCode": "T2R 1R7",
    "addressLocality": "Calgary"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.039273,
    "longitude": -114.081499
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 11:00-23:00; Fr-Su 11:00-23:59",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:59"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "vietnamese"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/contact",
  "hasMenu": "https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/contact",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/chez-nguyen-kitchenbar-calgary",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Chez Nguyen

> restaurant (vietnamese) in 8 Street SW 1436 T2R 1R7 Calgary, Calgary. Phone +1 403 454 8386.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/contact (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/chez-nguyen-kitchenbar-calgary (through clover acting for the business)
- Menu: https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 11:00-23:00; Fr-Su 11:00-23:59

## About

- Website: https://cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/
- 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 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 Chez Nguyen

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/cheznguyenrestaurant.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/calgary/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookcheznguyenrestaurant.ca/contact own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Orderwww.clover.com/online-ordering/chez-nguyen-kitchenbar-calgar vendor on own site: Cloverfound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menucheznguyenrestaurant.ca/menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Th 11:00-23:00; Fr-Su 11:00-23:59 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1 403 454 8386

Stable links that count: /go/cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/book, /go/cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/order, /go/cheznguyenrestaurant.ca/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 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.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 businessno