# Cafe Boulud: Agent-Direct Score C (55.4%) Site: https://www.cafeboulud.com/nyc/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/cafeboulud.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.) Cafe Boulud is partly visible to agents. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.cafeboulud.com/nyc/our-menu/dinner/ - Phone: +1-212-772-2600 ## What to fix first - **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). 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 - **Booking only through resy.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Cafe Boulud > restaurant (french) in East 76th Street 20 10021 New York, New York. Phone +1-212-772-2600. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.cafeboulud.com/nyc/our-menu/dinner/ ## About - Website: https://www.cafeboulud.com/nyc/ - 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. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **Resy lets agents act only through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. An assistant that is not a partner cannot finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 2341 of 4270 in New York. Top 55% 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% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 13% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Orsay (A, 361 m, https://directindex.org/r/orsayrestaurant.com); Daniel (D, 900 m, https://directindex.org/r/danielnyc.com); Jacques Brasserie (A, 913 m, https://directindex.org/r/jacquesbrasserie.com); JoJo (F, 1040 m, https://directindex.org/r/jojorestaurantnyc.com); QUATORZE bis (B, 1092 m, https://directindex.org/r/quatorze.nyc); Fleming by Le Bilboquet (D, 1106 m, https://directindex.org/r/flemingbylebilboquet.com); AOC East (A, 1114 m, https://directindex.org/r/aoceast.com); Jean Claude (B, 1158 m, https://directindex.org/r/jeanclaudebistrotnyc.com); Cafe d'Alsace (B, 1240 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafedalsace.com); Le Bilboquet (D, 1290 m, https://directindex.org/r/lebilboquetny.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 using Resy 69% (48% A or B, 600 sites); This site 55.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/cafeboulud.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Cafe Boulud in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in New York | 4270 | 52% | 40% | 55.4% | | Using Resy in New York | 273 | 69% | 48% | 55.4% | The best of Using Resy in New York: Verde (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/verdeonsmith.com); Barrio Chino (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/barriochinony.com); Concrete (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/concrete-brooklyn.com); Beyond Sushi - Vegan Restaurant (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/beyondsushi.com); Soho Diner (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/sohodinernyc.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through resy) the score would be about 95.4%: 74th of 4,270 in New York, up from 2341st. ## The direct record What agents get for Cafe Boulud, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cafeboulud.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.cafeboulud.com/nyc/our-menu/dinner/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-212-772-2600 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/cafeboulud.com/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 - Vendor terms for agents, Resy: Partners only. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/cafeboulud.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: 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: no Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/cafeboulud.com/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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=cafeboulud.com&force=1