The Direct Index
Report · San Jose · scanned 2026-10-24

Back A Yard Caribbean Grill

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OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Back A Yard Caribbean Grill directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

East Capitol Expressway 1011 95121 San Jose · +16503234244

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Back A Yard Caribbean Grill that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Back A Yard Caribbean Grill's website. It can read what Back A Yard Caribbean Grill offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2018.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In San Jose, 78% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about San Jose and named 125 places. Back A Yard Caribbean Grill wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Back A Yard Caribbean Grill compares

Where it stands

231 of 1,080 in San Jose

Top 21% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Asma's Kitchen B, Ay Chabela Taqueria B. Just below: Bamboo Fish B, Bangkok Taste Thai B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML90%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours67%no
Have an llms.txt36%no

The top 10% are the 109 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tai Pan Restaurant dim_sum37 mCyes
RAW Superfood Cafe vegetarian187 mAyes
Oc Lau Nuong Restaurant vietnamese1.0 kmAyes
Taquería El Farolito mexican1.0 kmBno
Azteca Taqueria mexican1.2 kmByes
Q-Pot Korean BBQ & Hot Pot korean1.3 kmBno
Tây Hồ vietnamese, bánh_cuốn1.3 kmCyes
The Boiling Crab seafood1.3 kmCno
Seadrift Seafood Inc1.3 kmDno
IceyPoki poke1.3 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Back A Yard Caribbean Grill in San Jose

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in San Jose1,08052%32%73.8%
Sites built with WordPress in San Jose21265%44%73.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in San Jose

Fogo de Chão A 100% · Siam Thai A 98.5% · Aloha Fresh A 96.3% · Boudin SF A 96.3% · Chuck E. Cheese A 96.3%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 34th of 1,080 in San Jose, up from 231st.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in San Jose. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /restaurantmenu/: nothing new; booking page /order-party-catering/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Back A Yard Caribbean Grill",
  "url": "http://www.backayard.net/",
  "telephone": "+16503234244",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "East Capitol Expressway 1011",
    "postalCode": "95121",
    "addressLocality": "San Jose"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 37.299916,
    "longitude": -121.8242348
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "caribbean"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://backayard.net/restaurantmenu/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://backayard.net/order-party-catering/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Back A Yard Caribbean Grill

> restaurant (caribbean) in East Capitol Expressway 1011 95121 San Jose, San Jose. Phone +16503234244.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://backayard.net/order-party-catering/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://backayard.net/restaurantmenu/

## About

- Website: http://www.backayard.net/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Back A Yard Caribbean Grill

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/backayard.net, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-jose/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderbackayard.net/order-party-catering/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menubackayard.net/restaurantmenu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+16503234244

Stable links that count: /go/backayard.net/order, /go/backayard.net/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno