# Restaurant Aylmer B.B.Q.: Agent-Direct Score F (38.5%)

Site: https://aylmerbbq.ca/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/aylmerbbq.ca
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Restaurant Aylmer B.B.Q. is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Restaurant Aylmer B.B.Q., so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://aylmerbbq.ca/MGAY%20SEPT%20Aylmer%20BBQ_03.pdf
- Phone: +1-819-684-4372

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (challenge:attention required); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours

## Where it stands
361 of 504 in Ottawa. Top 72% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Lanterne de Szechwan (D, 92 m, https://directindex.org/r/lanterneszechwan.com); Le Choix (C, 104 m, https://directindex.org/r/lechoixaylmer.com); Pizza Heritage (C, 201 m, https://directindex.org/r/heritagepizza.ca); Jimmie's (C, 227 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizzajimmies.ca); Bambou (F, 298 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebamboo.ca); Patate Lou Lou (D, 496 m, https://directindex.org/r/patateloulouaylmer.ca); Pizza Bob (B, 793 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizzabob.ca); Rosé Pizza (B, 963 m, https://directindex.org/r/rosepizza.net); Pizza Glenwood (B, 964 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizzaglenwood.ca); Pizzeria Riverview Plus (D, 1479 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizzariverview.com).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/aylmerbbq.ca/agent-view

## Businesses like Restaurant Aylmer B.B.Q. in Ottawa

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa | 504 | 54% | 35% | 38.5% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Ottawa: Chopp Chop Thai Street Food (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/choppchop.ca); Fat Les's Chip Stand & Wham Burger! (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fatleswhamburger.ca); Gongfu Bao (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/gongfu.ca); Grounded (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/groundedkitchencoffee.com); Khao Thai (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/khaothai.ca).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Menu or price list is a PDF) the score would be about 95.4%: 10th of 504 in Ottawa, up from 361st.

## The direct record
What agents get for Restaurant Aylmer B.B.Q., as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/aylmerbbq.ca
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://aylmerbbq.ca/MGAY%20SEPT%20Aylmer%20BBQ_03.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: Su-Tu 11:00-01:00; We 11:00-23:00; Th-Sa 11:00-02:30 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-819-684-4372
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/aylmerbbq.ca/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got challenge:attention required); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 19 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/aylmerbbq.ca/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/aylmerbbq.ca/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=aylmerbbq.ca&force=1