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Reservations Blueprint — Restaurant

The reservations page is where AI systems learn whether your restaurant accepts bookings and how customers can reserve a table. Structured data here lets AI guide users directly to your reservation system, reducing friction between discovery and dining.

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What this page needs

When someone asks AI "can I book a table at this restaurant," the reservations page is where the answer lives. Without structured data, AI may know you exist but cannot tell users whether reservations are available or how to make one.

Reservation availability. The acceptsReservations property on FoodEstablishment is a clear true/false signal that AI uses to answer reservation queries instantly.
Reserve action. The ReserveAction inside potentialAction gives AI a direct URL to your booking system, enabling one-click reservation flow from AI-generated answers.
Restaurant context. Connecting the reservation page to the FoodEstablishment entity ensures AI associates booking capabilities with the correct restaurant.
Page type. The WebPage node anchors this page in your site hierarchy and tells AI this is a dedicated reservation page, not a general page that mentions bookings.

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.
openingHoursSpecification: AI filters local recommendations by current availability. Without hours AI cannot answer open-now queries or confirm the business is reachable.
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.

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 Restaurant Reservations 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. City
2. Cuisine type
3. Domain
4. Faq answer
5. Faq question
6. Phone number
7. Reservations page title
8. Restaurant name
9. State
10. Street address
11. Sunday close
12. Sunday open
13. Weekday close
14. Weekday open
15. Weekend close
16. Weekend open
17. 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 Restaurant Reservations"
- 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 reservations page.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "FoodEstablishment",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#restaurant",
      "name": "YOUR_RESTAURANT_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "acceptsReservations": "True",
      "potentialAction": {
        "@type": "ReserveAction",
        "target": {
          "@type": "EntryPoint",
          "urlTemplate": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/reservations/",
          "actionPlatform": [
            "https://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
            "https://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
          ]
        },
        "result": {
          "@type": "Reservation",
          "name": "Table Reservation at YOUR_RESTAURANT_NAME"
        }
      },
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "YOUR_STREET_ADDRESS",
        "addressLocality": "YOUR_CITY",
        "addressRegion": "YOUR_STATE",
        "postalCode": "YOUR_ZIP",
        "addressCountry": "US"
      },
      "telephone": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER",
      "servesCuisine": "YOUR_CUISINE_TYPE",
      "openingHoursSpecification": [
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday"],
          "opens": "YOUR_WEEKDAY_OPEN",
          "closes": "YOUR_WEEKDAY_CLOSE"
        },
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": ["Friday", "Saturday"],
          "opens": "YOUR_WEEKEND_OPEN",
          "closes": "YOUR_WEEKEND_CLOSE"
        },
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": "Sunday",
          "opens": "YOUR_SUNDAY_OPEN",
          "closes": "YOUR_SUNDAY_CLOSE"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/reservations/#webpage",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/reservations/",
      "name": "YOUR_RESERVATIONS_PAGE_TITLE",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#restaurant"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/reservations/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Reservations",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/reservations/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@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

What is the difference between FoodEstablishment and Restaurant here?

FoodEstablishment is the parent type that includes acceptsReservations as a property. Restaurant is a subtype of FoodEstablishment, so you can use either. We use FoodEstablishment in this template because the reservation properties are defined at that level, but replacing it with Restaurant works identically since Restaurant inherits all FoodEstablishment properties.

Should I use ReserveAction even if I use a third-party booking service?

Yes. Point the urlTemplate to whatever URL handles your reservations, whether that is your own page, an OpenTable widget, Resy, or any other service. The key is that AI has a direct URL to send users to. If you use a third-party embed on your own page, point to your page URL rather than the third-party domain.

Should I include hours on the reservations page if they are already on the homepage?

Yes. AI systems may crawl your reservations page independently of your homepage. Including hours here ensures AI can answer "can I book a table tonight" by checking availability against your operating hours, regardless of which page it reads first.