The Direct Index
Report · Winnipeg · scanned 2026-10-24

Cafe Carlo

cafecarlo.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Cafe Carlo directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 17:00-22:00, Fr 11:30-14:00

Lilac Street 243 R3M 2S2 · +1 204-477-5544

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cafe Carlo that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Cafe Carlo's website. It can read what Cafe Carlo offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

63.5%

41.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table" in Winnipeg, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Winnipeg and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.Gemini by name, without a link2026-10-22

Every place named in Winnipeg, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cafecarlo.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/cafecarlo.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.” (Gemini, by name, without a link)

Where it stands

How Cafe Carlo compares

Where it stands

130 of 209 in Winnipeg

Top 62% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Jade Inn Chinese Food C, Kinton Ramen C. Just below: Chicken Chef C, Copper Chimney C.

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 HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours73%no
Have an llms.txt73%no

The top 10% are the 22 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 236,087 sites55%25%63.5%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront 2,937 sites71%57%63.5%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Colosseo Ristorante Italiano italian513 mCno
Colleen italian2.6 kmCyes
Pasquale's italian2.7 kmAyes
The Old Spaghetti Factory italian2.7 kmAyes
Bellissimo Restaurant and Lounge italian3.3 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cafe Carlo in Winnipeg

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Winnipeg20965%51%63.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Winnipeg7468%58%63.5%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront in Winnipeg1669%38%63.5%
Sites built with WordPress and using DoorDash Storefront in Winnipeg969%44%63.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using DoorDash Storefront in Winnipeg

Burrito Splendido A 90.3% · D Spot Dessert Café A 90% · Earls B 80.5% · Frankie's Italian Kitchen B 78.5% · Stella's Cafe C 61.1%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 13th of 209 in Winnipeg, up from 130th.

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. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. 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 Winnipeg. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /our-menu/: nothing new; booking page /reservations/: booking via opentable

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.

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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": "Cafe Carlo",
  "url": "https://cafecarlo.com/",
  "telephone": "+1 204-477-5544",
  "email": "info@cafecarlo.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Lilac Street 243",
    "postalCode": "R3M 2S2"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 49.869897,
    "longitude": -97.1570906
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 17:00-22:00, Fr 11:30-14:00",
  "servesCuisine": [
    "italian"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.cafecarlo.com/reservations/",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.cafecarlo.com/our-menu/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.cafecarlo.com/reservations/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.online/store/cafe-carlo-578164",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Cafe Carlo

> restaurant (italian) in Lilac Street 243 R3M 2S2, Winnipeg. Phone +1 204-477-5544.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.cafecarlo.com/reservations/ (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://order.online/store/cafe-carlo-578164 (through doordash_storefront acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.cafecarlo.com/our-menu/

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 17:00-22:00, Fr 11:30-14:00

## About

- Website: https://cafecarlo.com/
- 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 C

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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 Cafe Carlo

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/cafecarlo.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/winnipeg/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.cafecarlo.com/reservations/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Orderorder.online/store/cafe-carlo-578164 vendor on own site: DoorDash Storefrontfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuwww.cafecarlo.com/our-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Su 17:00-22:00, Fr 11:30-14:00from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1 204-477-5544

Stable links that count: /go/cafecarlo.com/book, /go/cafecarlo.com/order, /go/cafecarlo.com/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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /reservations/: booking via opentable.

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