what else is on Lakeville around The Canton?
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Chinese restaurant in Petaluma, CA
4.6 · 121 reviewsOpens today at 11 AMOpens today at 11 AM
The Canton, located at 951 Lakeville St in Petaluma, is a beloved local Chinese restaurant known for its consistently good and fresh dishes. With a strong rating of 4.6 from 121 reviews, patrons rave about the delicious flavors and the warm, friendly service provided by the family that runs the establishment. While the restaurant offers reservations, it does not have online ordering, encouraging a more personal touch for diners. Regulars appreciate the familiarity and care shown by the staff, making it a cherished spot for both takeout and dining in.
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What The Canton offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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Wingstop is next door for chicken wings. Subway is next door for sandwiches. Papa Murphy's | Take 'N' Bake Pizza is next door for pizza. McDonald's is next door for fast food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 18, 2026.
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.
What reviews, press and directories say about The Canton.
4.6from 121 reviews on Google
The Canton is a family-owned restaurant known for its pot stickers and garlic eggplant, though service and food quality can vary. The Canton offers a mix of experiences, with some customers enjoying the fresh, flavorful dishes and quick service, while others report issues with wait times and service quality. The restaurant has a family-run feel, but some patrons find the atmosphere lacking warmth and the service inconsistent.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
56 Petaluma avg
Signal and how much it countsThe Canton
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
The Canton, as AI sees it. Blue signals help The Canton, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about The Canton. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Chinese restaurants in Petaluma, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 31, 2026.
Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
The Canton is a chinese restaurant in Petaluma, CA. Its AI Score is 49 of 100, which is fair.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Chinese restaurant |
| Address | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA |
| Hours | Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM |
| Phone | (707) 778-8000 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 121 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 31, 2026 |
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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 4:00 to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4:00 to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Canton | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (707) 778-8000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA. Phone: (707) 778-8000. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Subway | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk |
| Papa Murphy's | Take 'N' Bake Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| McDonald's | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Lakeville Hwy & Caulfield (Lucky'S Shopping Center | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Lucky | Grocery store | 2 min walk |
4.6 average across 121 reviews: Google 121. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)
The Canton is a family-owned restaurant known for its pot stickers and garlic eggplant, though service and food quality can vary. (AI guess, from 121 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Petaluma chinese restaurants run 49 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Canton scores 49, below the Petaluma average of 56. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Canton |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | 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. | |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | 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 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a chinese restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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| The Canton | LocalBusiness | #business | Subject of this page | |
| Petaluma, California | City | #city | City The Canton is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Petaluma, linked to the lists and towns around it.
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Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# The Canton, Petaluma CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/petaluma/the-canton-petaluma-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-31. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/petaluma/the-canton-petaluma-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short The Canton is a chinese restaurant in Petaluma, CA. Its AI Score is 49 of 100, which is fair. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Chinese restaurant | | Address | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA | | Hours | Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM | | Phone | (707) 778-8000 | | Rating | 4.6 across 121 reviews on Google | | Updated | October 31, 2026 | ## 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 | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 4:00 to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4:00 to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | The Canton | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (707) 778-8000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting The Canton Address: 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA. Phone: (707) 778-8000. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 1 min walk | | Subway | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk | | Papa Murphy's \| Take 'N' Bake Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk | | McDonald's | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk | | Lakeville Hwy & Caulfield (Lucky'S Shopping Center | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | Lucky | Grocery store | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.6 average across 121 reviews: Google 121. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.) The Canton is a family-owned restaurant known for its pot stickers and garlic eggplant, though service and food quality can vary. (AI guess, from 121 reviews.) ### What people like - Pot stickers - Wontons - House Special garlic eggplant - Mongolian beef - Shrimp & Sno Peas ### What people do not like - Inconsistent service quality - Long wait times for food - Some dishes lacking flavor ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### what else is on Lakeville around The Canton? ### do I need to book The Canton in Petaluma or can I just turn up? ### any last minute tables at The Canton? ### Are there any special features here? ### Why do people rate The Canton? ### picking between the two, is Hunan Village the safer bet? ### anything new from The Canton lately? ### points or member pricing here, worth signing up? ### people keep recommending The Canton, what for? ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves ### Are the hours on Google right for this place? ### is there parking at The Canton or is it street only? ### bad experiences here, anyone? ### planning a Monday visit, is that a wasted trip ### anywhere cheaper than The Canton in Petaluma that is still good? ### best chinese restaurant in Petaluma ### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea ## The AI Score: 49 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Petaluma chinese restaurants run 49 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Canton scores 49, below the Petaluma average of 56. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Canton | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | 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. | | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | 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 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a chinese restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## 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 The Canton | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | The Canton | LocalBusiness | #business | | Subject of this page | | Petaluma, California | City | #city | | City The Canton is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Petaluma, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best chinese restaurants in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma/chinese-restaurant - Best businesses in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJfa5_clSxhYARapTCzE8yfVw (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Chinese restaurants in Petaluma, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>The Canton, Petaluma CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 31, 2026.</p>
<p>Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>The Canton is a chinese restaurant in Petaluma, CA. Its AI Score is 49 of 100, which is fair.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Chinese restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(707) 778-8000</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.6 across 121 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>October 31, 2026</td></tr>
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<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 4:00 to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4:00 to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Mondays</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>The Canton</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(707) 778-8000</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>4:00 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
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<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-the-canton">
<h3>Visiting The Canton</h3>
<p>Address: 951 Lakeville St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA. Phone: (707) 778-8000. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 4 AM to 8:30 PM · Sat to Sun 4 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Wingstop</td><td>Chicken wings restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Subway</td><td>Sandwich shop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Papa Murphy's | Take 'N' Bake Pizza</td><td>Pizza restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>McDonald's</td><td>Fast food restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lakeville Hwy & Caulfield (Lucky'S Shopping Center</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lucky</td><td>Grocery store</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.6 average across 121 reviews: Google 121. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)</p>
<p>The Canton is a family-owned restaurant known for its pot stickers and garlic eggplant, though service and food quality can vary. (AI guess, from 121 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pot stickers</li>
<li>Wontons</li>
<li>House Special garlic eggplant</li>
<li>Mongolian beef</li>
<li>Shrimp & Sno Peas</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Inconsistent service quality</li>
<li>Long wait times for food</li>
<li>Some dishes lacking flavor</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>what else is on Lakeville around The Canton?</h4>
<h4>do I need to book The Canton in Petaluma or can I just turn up?</h4>
<h4>any last minute tables at The Canton?</h4>
<h4>Are there any special features here?</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate The Canton?</h4>
<h4>picking between the two, is Hunan Village the safer bet?</h4>
<h4>anything new from The Canton lately?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing here, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>people keep recommending The Canton, what for?</h4>
<h4>anyone tell me what a first visit here involves</h4>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for this place?</h4>
<h4>is there parking at The Canton or is it street only?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences here, anyone?</h4>
<h4>planning a Monday visit, is that a wasted trip</h4>
<h4>anywhere cheaper than The Canton in Petaluma that is still good?</h4>
<h4>best chinese restaurant in Petaluma</h4>
<h4>going rate for restaurants locally, any idea</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 49 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Petaluma chinese restaurants run 49 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Canton scores 49, below the Petaluma average of 56. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">The Canton</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>33</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>81</td><td>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.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>78</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td></td></tr>
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</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a chinese restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
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<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to The Canton</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>The Canton</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td></td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Petaluma, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City The Canton is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Petaluma, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best chinese restaurants in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma/chinese-restaurant</li>
<li>Best businesses in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJfa5_clSxhYARapTCzE8yfVw (accessed Jul 16, 2026)</li>
</ul>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.