# Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Cerritos (조마루 감자탕), Cerritos: a restaurant in Cerritos (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/cerritos/jomaru-korean-hot-pot-cerritos-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/cerritos/jomaru-korean-hot-pot-cerritos-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti890yr03i0ye6bl72dsybo%2F0.png) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti890yr03i0ye6bl72dsybo%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti890yr03i0ye6bl72dsybo%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti890yr03i0ye6bl72dsybo%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti890yr03i0ye6bl72dsybo%2F4.jpg) ## In short Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Cerritos (조마루 감자탕) is a restaurant. Its AI Score is 24 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Restaurant | | Address | 11900 South St Ste 110, Cerritos, CA 90703, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 11 AM to 3 PM and 5 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sun 11 AM to 11 PM | | Phone | (562) 467-7979 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 95 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Wednesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:21 AM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 11900 South St Ste 110, Cerritos, CA 90703, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Jomaru Gamjatang, the No.1 Korean hotpot franchise with over 250 locations in South Korea, is expanding in the U.S. following successful launches in San Diego and National City, and Cerritos. Gamja-Tang is a beloved Korean dish known as spicy pork bone stew. It’s a hearty, flavorful meal that features slow-simmered pork bones, potatoes, and vegetables in a rich, spicy broth. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, 5:00 to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sun 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, 5:00 to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Cerritos (조마루 감자탕) | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (562) 467-7979 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Services | Service | Gamja-Tang | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Korean hot pot | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://www.jomaruusa.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Address: 11900 South St Ste 110, Cerritos, CA 90703, USA. Phone: (562) 467-7979. Hours: Mon to Thu 11 AM to 3 PM and 5 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sun 11 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:29 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Jomaru Korean Hot Pot on its Google Business Profile: "Jomaru Gamjatang, the No.1 Korean hotpot franchise with over 250 locations in South Korea, is expanding in the U.S. following successful launches in San Diego and National City, and Cerritos. Gamja-Tang is a beloved Korean dish known as spicy pork bone stew. It’s a hearty, flavorful meal that features slow-simmered pork bones, potatoes, and vegetables in a rich, spicy broth." ### When to go Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Sharetea | Tea house | 1 min walk | | 8th Symphony Coffee | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Smoking Tiger Bread Factory | Bakery | 2 min walk | | South & Pioneer SE corner | Bus stop | 3 min walk | | Pioneer / South | Bus stop | 3 min walk | | Pioneer / South | Transit station | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 95 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) Jomaru Korean Hot Pot stands out for its authentic gamjatang and extensive menu, though some dishes may vary in quality. (AI guess, from 95 reviews.) ### What people like - Kimchi Gamjatang - Cheese Fried Rice - Pyehaejangguk (pork bone hangover soup) - Bossam - Galbi ### What people do not like - Side dishes sometimes lack flavor - Inconsistent service quality - Some dishes undercooked or overly salty ### Press No press story about Jomaru Korean Hot Pot found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Jomaru Korean Hot Pot hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### is there parking at Jomaru Korean Hot Pot or is it street only? No answer yet ### killing time on South, any ideas No answer yet ### best restaurant in Cerritos No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### budget options in Cerritos, what is decent No answer yet ### what time does this place actually open? No answer yet ### cancellation list here, is there one No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Jomaru Korean Hot Pot? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in Cerritos? No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### Any membership pricing here? No answer yet ### which one, Jomaru Korean Hot Pot or Lazy Dog? No answer yet ### walk in at Jomaru Korean Hot Pot in Cerritos, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### when is this place actually dead? No answer yet ### the good stuff about Jomaru Korean Hot Pot, what is it? No answer yet ### Anything this place is known for doing well? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Jomaru Korean Hot Pot We ask ChatGPT about Jomaru Korean Hot Pot. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 24 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Restaurants on the registry run 22 to 52. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Jomaru Korean Hot Pot scores 24. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Jomaru Korean Hot Pot | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 33 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 82 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 68 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 82 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 6 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a restaurant When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a restaurant in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Jomaru Korean Hot Pot if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Jomaru Korean Hot Pot | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Cerritos (조마루 감자탕) | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.jomaruusa.com/ | Subject of this page | | Cerritos, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Jomaru Korean Hot Pot is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the restaurants in Cerritos, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best restaurants in Cerritos: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/cerritos/restaurant - Best businesses in Cerritos: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/cerritos ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Jomaru Korean Hot Pot Cerritos (조마루 감자탕). How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ2UefOYst3YARj4EcxFhKW7Q (accessed Aug 31, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)