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Contact Page Blueprint — Food Establishment

The contact page makes your food business reachable through AI. When someone asks "how do I reach this place?" or "what are their hours?", AI pulls from the structured data here. This blueprint ensures your phone, email, address, and hours are all machine-readable so AI can connect hungry customers to your business.

What this page needs

The contact page is the definitive source for how to reach your food business. AI systems often pull contact details from this page specifically, so structured data here ensures your phone number, address, and hours are accurate across every platform that references you.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

FoodEstablishment

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
url
AI needs a stable URL to route users and attribute recommendations.
telephone
AI won't recommend a local business it can't confirm is reachable. Phone is the primary trust signal for location-based queries.
email
Secondary contact signal. Supports AI responses to queries about how to reach the business.
address
AI uses address to confirm the business is real and located where it claims. Required for all near-me and city-specific queries.
geo
AI uses geo to place you on a map and answer proximity queries. Without coordinates AI relies on address parsing alone, which is less reliable.
openingHoursSpecification
AI filters local recommendations by current availability. Without hours AI cannot answer open-now queries or confirm the business is reachable.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · Contact
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Food Establishment Contact page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Business name
2. City
3. Domain
4. Email
5. Faq answer
6. Faq question
7. Latitude
8. Longitude
9. Phone number
10. State
11. Street address
12. Weekday close
13. Weekday open
14. Weekend close
15. Weekend open
16. Zip

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Food Establishment Contact"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy the template below and replace every YOUR_* value with your own data. This block belongs in a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag in the <head> of your contact page.

JSON-LD · Contact
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "FoodEstablishment",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business",
      "name": "YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "telephone": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER",
      "email": "YOUR_EMAIL",
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "YOUR_STREET_ADDRESS",
        "addressLocality": "YOUR_CITY",
        "addressRegion": "YOUR_STATE",
        "postalCode": "YOUR_ZIP",
        "addressCountry": "US"
      },
      "geo": {
        "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
        "latitude": "YOUR_LATITUDE",
        "longitude": "YOUR_LONGITUDE"
      },
      "openingHoursSpecification": [
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday"],
          "opens": "YOUR_WEEKDAY_OPEN",
          "closes": "YOUR_WEEKDAY_CLOSE"
        },
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": ["Saturday", "Sunday"],
          "opens": "YOUR_WEEKEND_OPEN",
          "closes": "YOUR_WEEKEND_CLOSE"
        }
      ],
      "contactPoint": {
        "@type": "ContactPoint",
        "telephone": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER",
        "email": "YOUR_EMAIL",
        "contactType": "customer support"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ContactPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/#webpage",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/",
      "name": "Contact — YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Contact",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Should food establishments include a reservations contact type?

If your business takes reservations, add a second ContactPoint with "contactType": "reservations" and the dedicated phone number or booking email. This lets AI distinguish between general inquiries and table bookings when someone says "I want to make a reservation."

Should the contact page repeat hours from the homepage?

Yes. AI systems may index the contact page independently from your homepage. Including openingHoursSpecification here ensures that no matter which page AI reads first, it has your hours available to answer time-sensitive food queries.

How should I handle different hours for dine-in vs takeout?

Use separate openingHoursSpecification entries and add a description field to each, like "Dine-in hours" and "Takeout hours." While AI may not always parse the description, it gives context. You can also add a second ContactPoint for takeout orders specifically.

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