# Bistrot Zinc: Agent-Direct Score F (35.4%)

Site: https://bistrotzinc.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/bistrotzinc.com
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Bistrot Zinc is largely invisible to agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Bistrot Zinc. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +1 312 337 1131

## 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Bistrot Zinc",
  "url": "https://bistrotzinc.com",
  "telephone": "+1 312 337 1131",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "North State Street 1131",
    "postalCode": "60611",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.9027749,
    "longitude": -87.6283042
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "french"
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.

## Where it stands
917 of 1392 in Chicago. Top 66% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | no |
| 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 | 19% | yes |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Coq d'Or (B, 503 m, https://directindex.org/r/thedrakehotel.com); Bistronomic (B, 553 m, https://directindex.org/r/bistronomic.net); Gavroche (C, 952 m, https://directindex.org/r/gavrochechi.com); Obélix (C, 1227 m, https://directindex.org/r/obelixchicago.com); Bar La Rue (B, 2422 m, https://directindex.org/r/barlarue.com); Mon Ami Gabi (C, 2459 m, https://directindex.org/r/monamigabi.com); HIDE+SEEK (A, 2646 m, https://directindex.org/r/hideandseekchicago.com); Bistro Monadnock (D, 2817 m, https://directindex.org/r/bistromonadnock.com); Cafe Yaya (B, 3157 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafeyaya.com); Mercat a la Planxa (B, 3295 m, https://directindex.org/r/mercatchicago.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/bistrotzinc.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Bistrot Zinc in Chicago

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 1392 | 49% | 39% | 35.4% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Chicago: Amarit (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/amaritthai.com); El Llano Restaurant - Northcenter (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/llanochicago.com); Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Galit (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/galitrestaurant.com); Gingie (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/gingiechicago.com).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 92.3%: 78th of 1,392 in Chicago, up from 917th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Bistrot Zinc, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/bistrotzinc.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +1 312 337 1131

## 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): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- 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): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 23 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/bistrotzinc.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/bistrotzinc.com/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/bistrotzinc.com/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=bistrotzinc.com&force=1