# Black Burger: Agent-Direct Score B (78.5%)

Site: https://blackburger.co/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/blackburger.co
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.)
Black Burger is mostly ready for agents.

## Direct links
- Phone: +1-973-319-8121

## What to fix first
- **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 lives on another site.** (+5 points) The link points to getsauce.com, so the credit and the traffic go there. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Black Burger

> fast food restaurant (burger) in Canal Street 10013 New York, New York. Phone +1-973-319-8121.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.getsauce.com/order/black-burger-canal-st/menu

## About

- Website: https://blackburger.co/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## 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.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours

## Where it stands
1050 of 4270 in New York. Top 25% 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 | 99% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Jerrell's BETR BRGR (C, 284 m, https://directindex.org/r/jerrellsbetrbrgr.com); Black Tap (A, 286 m, https://directindex.org/r/blacktap.com); Odd Sister (B, 298 m, https://directindex.org/r/oddsisternyc.com); Chloe (F, 933 m, https://directindex.org/r/chloeonbleecker.com); Casa 13urger (B, 958 m, https://directindex.org/r/casa13urger.com); Butter Smashburgers (A, 965 m, https://directindex.org/r/buttersmashburgers.com); KO Burger (A, 1198 m, https://directindex.org/r/koburger.com); Bareburger LES (C, 1380 m, https://directindex.org/r/bareburger.com); Bill's Bar and Burger (A, 1531 m, https://directindex.org/r/billsbarandburger.com); Paul's "Da Burger Joint" (D, 1638 m, https://directindex.org/r/paulsburgersnyc.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.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 78.5%.

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

## Businesses like Black Burger in New York

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in New York | 4270 | 52% | 40% | 78.5% |
| Built with WordPress in New York | 667 | 67% | 49% | 78.5% |

The best of Built with WordPress in New York: Club A Steakhouse (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/clubasteakhouse.com); East Coast Burger (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/ecbny.com); Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Kokomo (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/kokomonyc.com); Manuela (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/manuela-nyc.com).

With the two fixes above (Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Menu or price list lives on another site) the score would be about 100%: first of 4,270 in New York.

## The direct record
What agents get for Black Burger, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/blackburger.co
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.getsauce.com/order/black-burger-canal-st/menu (external; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +1-973-319-8121
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/blackburger.co/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): 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 | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 20 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/blackburger.co
- 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: yes
- 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- 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: yes

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/blackburger.co/deep. 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.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=blackburger.co&force=1