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Homepage Blueprint — Food Establishment

The homepage is the identity anchor for any food establishment — bakeries, delis, food trucks, juice bars, and any business that serves food but does not fit a more specific type. It tells AI systems who you are, what you serve, where you are located, and when you are open. This blueprint provides the complete JSON-LD graph your homepage needs.

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What this page needs

The homepage is where AI systems look first to understand your food business. It must declare your identity, location, cuisine, hours, and how to reach you. Without this structured data, AI may know you exist but lack the details needed to recommend you when someone asks for food nearby.

Business identity. The FoodEstablishment node declares your name, cuisine type, phone number, price range, and social profiles. This is the canonical record AI uses to identify your business.
Physical location. A complete PostalAddress and GeoCoordinates let AI systems answer "food near me" queries and plot your location on maps.
Opening hours. The openingHoursSpecification array tells AI exactly when you are open, enabling time-aware recommendations.
WebSite and WebPage. These nodes anchor your site graph and connect the homepage to the business entity, giving AI a root-level reference for every other page.

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.
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.
priceRange: AI filters local recommendations by budget. One of the most common qualifiers in location-based queries.
sameAs: AI cross-references sameAs links to confirm the business exists outside its own domain. Google Business Profile is the strongest signal.
image: AI won't recommend a physical location it can't visually confirm exists. Image is a trust signal for brick-and-mortar businesses.
servesCuisineconditional: AI uses cuisine type to answer food-specific queries. Without it AI cannot match the restaurant to cuisine-based searches.Only required for Restaurant and FoodEstablishment subtypes. If your business is not a food service establishment this field is not applicable.

WebSite

@id: All other schema nodes reference this ID. Without it the graph is disconnected.

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.

You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Food Establishment Homepage 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. Cuisine type
4. Domain
5. Faq answer
6. Faq question
7. Handle
8. Hero image
9. Homepage title
10. Latitude
11. Logo
12. Longitude
13. Maps cid
14. Page
15. Phone number
16. Price range
17. State
18. Street address
19. Weekday close
20. Weekday open
21. Weekend close
22. Weekend open
23. Yelp id
24. Zip

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. servesCuisine

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 Homepage"
- 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 homepage.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "FoodEstablishment",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business",
      "name": "YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "logo": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_LOGO.png",
      "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_HERO_IMAGE.jpg",
      "servesCuisine": "YOUR_CUISINE_TYPE",
      "telephone": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER",
      "priceRange": "YOUR_PRICE_RANGE",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/YOUR_HANDLE",
        "https://www.facebook.com/YOUR_PAGE",
        "https://www.yelp.com/biz/YOUR_YELP_ID",
        "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=YOUR_MAPS_CID"
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebSite",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website",
      "name": "YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com"
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#webpage",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/",
      "name": "YOUR_HOMEPAGE_TITLE",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business"
      }
    },
    {
      "@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

When should I use FoodEstablishment instead of Restaurant?

FoodEstablishment is the parent type for all food businesses in Schema.org. Use it when your business does not fit a more specific subtype like Restaurant, Bakery, IceCreamShop, or CafeOrCoffeeShop. If a specific subtype matches your business, use that instead for better AI classification.

Can I list multiple cuisine types in servesCuisine?

Yes. Use an array: ["American", "BBQ", "Southern"]. This helps AI match your business to a wider range of food queries. Be specific — "BBQ" is more useful than just "American" because AI can match it to queries like "best BBQ near me."

Should food trucks include a fixed address?

If you have a primary location or commissary kitchen, include that address. For mobile businesses, use areaServed to declare the cities or neighborhoods you operate in, and update your geo coordinates to reflect your current or most frequent location.