Identity & Authority: Umami Burger – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Umami Burger

(https://umamiburger.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: June 20, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
15 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
100% Reputation

Authority is the site’s strongest pillar due to comprehensive Schema JSON-LD. The inclusion of founder Adam Fleischman, a founding date of 2009, and sameAs links to Wikipedia and major social platforms provides a verifiable digital footprint. There is no technical credibility gap as the heading hierarchy and structured data are professionally implemented.

The site claims to be the best burger restaurant in your city, which is a subjective performance claim that is impossible to verify across all its global locations. The ‘Change the World’ H3 associated with a burger trio is a significant marketing stretch (hyperbole) that disconnects the product from its actual impact. Despite this, the press mentions in H4 provide some external validation for the ‘meatiest’ and ‘best burger’ assertions.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
[
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Umami Burger",
        "founder": [
            {
                "@type": "Person",
                "name": "Adam Fleischman"
            }
        ],
        "foundingDate": "2009",
        "foundingLocation": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.",
        "legalName": "Umami Restaurant Group, LLC",
        "logo": "wp-content/uploads/2016/04/UB-logo-web.png",
        "url": "https://www.umamiburger.com",
        "sameAs": [
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami_Burger",
            "https://www.facebook.com/Umamiburger/",
            "https://www.instagram.com/umamiburger/",
            "https://twitter.com/umamiburger"
        ]
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "@id": "#website",
        "url": "https://www.umamiburger.com/",
        "name": "Umami Burger",
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.umamiburger.com/?s={search_term_string}",
            "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
        }
    }
]
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
0Review mentions (all pages)
3External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
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