# Restaurant specialty pages
Restaurants directory: /restaurants
AI-curated taxonomy: 129 specialties across cuisines, food specialties, dietary preferences and dining styles. This is an expandable editorial taxonomy, not a claim to include every possible specialty or verify local restaurant availability.
Location directories: /{city}-{state}/restaurants
Canonical specialty guides: /{city}-{state}/restaurants/{specialty}
Examples: /bexley-oh/restaurants/pizza, /bexley-oh/restaurants/burgers, /bexley-oh/restaurants/italian
Restaurants itself is a directory and cannot be purchased. Each specialty/location guide is separately subscribable through the existing unpaid page-request process, subject to live availability. Pizza and Food Truck reuse their existing industry/location records and ownership.
Each specialty guide has five FAQs, five answer nuggets, schema.json, knowledge-base.json, ai-summary.txt, llms.txt, facts .json, knowledge-graph.json and sitemap.xml. Follow /pages/resources/index.json for bounded links and /api/public/knowledge-graph for current inventory counts. Do not infer indexing, rankings, bookings, menu availability or allergy safety from these resources.
# Leads for you

> An independent AI-discovery service open to all businesses: make business identity, expertise, services and locations understandable for AI-assisted answers, not just directory listings. IMS membership is not required; IMS bucks are an optional payment method. Examples include ChatGPT by OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Siri and Alexa. These are discovery goals, not integrations or guaranteed placements. The current research index covers 36 Central Ohio links; it is not a national inventory or the official IMS website.

## AI discovery: entity, authority and architecture
- Entity clarity connects consistent business identity, actual services, real service area and contact details.
- Authority comes from credible first-hand expertise, legitimate proof, useful sourced content and current facts—not fabricated reviews or a platform score.
- Architecture connects crawlable pages, useful internal links, five FAQs and five answer nuggets per configured guide, matching JSON-LD and facts JSON, GEO summaries, LLMs resources, bounded directories and hierarchical sitemaps.
- llms.txt is optional and not universally consumed. No file forces AI training, indexing, citation or recommendation. Google describes normal search eligibility, not special AI files, for its AI Search features.

## Dated AI-usage evidence
- OpenAI reported more than 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users on February 27, 2026: https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/
- Pew reported June 17, 2026 that 44% of U.S. adults say they ever use ChatGPT; survey February 17–23, 2026: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-appendix-detailed-chart-and-tables/
- These measure different populations/timeframes. They are not live counts, a combined audience or local service-search demand.
- Technical guidance: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features

Each configured location × industry page is a public information resource: location context, category-relevant guidance, source links where available, a visitor inquiry form and its own published articles. It is not a verified local-business directory. The Leads for you team receives inquiries before an owner is assigned; afterward, the owner receives new inquiries without inheriting older ones. Monthly membership per page starts at $249.00 cash. IMS members can apply 0–150 IMS trade dollars each month, reducing monthly cash dollar-for-dollar; 100 IMS leaves $149.00 cash and 150 IMS leaves $99.00 cash. Both portions recur monthly. Requests save the selected quote without collecting card details, charging or assigning ownership. Card payment is not connected. Admin must independently verify cash and any positive IMS obligation before confirming assignment. Automatic IMS transfers, recurring charges and email notifications are not configured. Members manage assigned pages and inquiries in the portal. The main blog combines all published articles, newest first.

## Start here
- / — service overview and approach
- /portal/marketplace — signed-in marketplace for checking currently open city and state pages
- /locations — the current research index of 36 valid Central Ohio city links from the IMS Columbus page, not the full service area
- /industries — archived directory-research labels plus site-added Bed & Breakfast and restaurant specialties; not verified business listings. See /restaurants/catalog.json and /pages/resources/index.json for live totals.
- /fields/bed-breakfast — Bed & Breakfast industry guide and links to every configured location
- /fields/accommodations — example field directory: configured states, then cities, then a location × industry page
- /pages/alexandria-oh/accommodations — example visitor information page with sourced Alexandria context, accommodation types to consider in Licking County, and an inquiry form
- /pages/alexandria-oh/accommodations/schema.json — SEO structured data for the example field page
- /pages/alexandria-oh/accommodations.json — AEO page facts for the example field page
- /pages/alexandria-oh/accommodations/llms.txt — GEO AI summary for the example field page
- /pages/sitemap.xml — dynamic XML sitemap of configured field-page URLs after a verified production domain is set
- /knowledge-base — concise answers, editorial policy, and source notes
- /knowledge-base.json — structured questions, answers, and provenance
- /members/sitemap.xml — dynamic sitemap for eligible member pages

For any configured field-page URL, append `.json` for page facts, `/schema.json` for structured data, or `/llms.txt` for an AI summary. The example above demonstrates these suffixes on `/pages/alexandria-oh/accommodations`; the same suffixes apply to every configured field page. An unleased page is not a directory entry for a local provider.

## Important distinctions
- The IMS category selector is a global directory taxonomy. A listed category does not prove that a member in that category is active in any named city.
- Unleased pages collect visitor inquiries for the Leads for you team; an assigned owner receives only new inquiries. A category and city identify the topic of an information page, not a verified provider listing. Lodging types discussed for Licking County are county-wide options described by Explore Licking County, not proof of a property in Alexandria. Illustrations are not local-provider photographs; process diagrams do not show measured demand or performance.
- The location × industry page model is nationwide-ready, but pages outside the current Ohio research index are not promised or pre-published; check marketplace availability.
- Check current member availability on IMS's own directory pages, linked from each location page.
- AI visibility, rankings, and inquiries are not guaranteed.
- No IMS member profile text or imagery is reproduced on this site.

## Source
- https://www.imsbarter.com/columbus-barter

## Page-specific resources
Unified newest-first blog: /blog
All published articles with categories and source filters: /api/public/blog
Main-site articles: /api/public/blog?scope=site
Main-site article resources: /blog/articles/{id}/{slug}.json and /blog/articles/{id}/{slug}/llms.txt
Main-site article/resource sitemap: /blog/articles/sitemap.xml

Knowledge-graph overview and counts: /knowledge-graph
Live inventory JSON: /api/public/knowledge-graph
Searchable page answers and resource links: /api/public/knowledge-graph/pages

Each industry × location page has its own service content, five FAQs and five answer nuggets in its SEO schema, AEO knowledge base, GEO AI summary, LLMs.txt, JSON and knowledge graph.
- index: /pages/resources/index.json
- firstPart: /pages/resources/parts/1.json
- aiSummary: /pages/resources/llms.txt
- resourceSitemap: /pages/resources/sitemap.xml
- masterSitemap: /sitemap.xml
- policy: Root files are compact indexes. Page-specific content and answers live only in each page’s own resources; follow each part’s next link to discover all pages.


## Published articles
- Site AI summary (compact directory): /ai-summary.txt
- Page-specific SEO/AEO/GEO resource directory: /pages/resources/index.json
- First resource-directory part (follow next links): /pages/resources/parts/1.json
- Page-resource directory AI summary: /pages/resources/llms.txt
- Page-resource sitemap index: /pages/resources/sitemap.xml
- Master sitemap index (HTML pages and resource shards): /sitemap.xml
- All published main-site and field-page articles, newest first: /blog
- Public blog API (categories, source filters and pagination): /api/public/blog
- Main-site article feed: /api/public/blog?scope=site
- Main-site article JSON and LLMs: /blog/articles/{id}/{slug}.json and /blog/articles/{id}/{slug}/llms.txt
- Main-site article/resource sitemap index: /blog/articles/sitemap.xml
- Live field-page and published-article sitemap: /pages/sitemap.xml