Benoit
benoitny.com is hard for agents to use.
Menu: www.benoitny.com/menus/
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
35 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- Booking only through opentable +12 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- Ordering only through ubereats +12 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Restaurant",
"name": "Benoit",
"url": "https://benoitny.com/",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "West 55th Street 60",
"postalCode": "10019",
"addressLocality": "New York"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 40.7625321,
"longitude": -73.9772542
},
"servesCuisine": [
"french"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.benoitny.com/menus/"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Benoit > restaurant (french) in West 55th Street 60 10019 New York, New York. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.benoitny.com/menus/ ## About - Website: https://benoitny.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
2,414 of 4,817 in New York
Top 50% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: B&L Diner D, BEA D. Just below: Bergen Bagels D, Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter D.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | no |
The top tenth is the 488 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites | 57% | 26% | 53.8% |
| Sites using OpenTable 1,409 sites | 67% | 42% | 53.8% |
| Sites using Uber Eats 653 sites | 63% | 34% | 53.8% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Bonne Soupe french | 28 m | C | no |
| The Modern - The Bar Room french | 162 m | A | yes |
| La Grande Boucherie french | 287 m | A | yes |
| Le Bernardin french, seafood | 395 m | F | no |
| Le Bilboquet fine_dining, french | 593 m | D | no |
| Fleming by Le Bilboquet fine_dining, french | 724 m | D | no |
| Jean-Georges french | 807 m | F | no |
| Daniel french | 942 m | D | no |
| JoJo french | 1.0 km | F | no |
| Vin Sur Vingt french | 1.0 km | A | yes |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/benoitny.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/benoitny.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.