The Direct Index
Report · New Orleans · scanned 2026-11-13

Café Maspero

cafemaspero.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Café Maspero directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Wed 08:00–22:00 · Thu 08:00–23:00 · Fri–Sat 08:00–00:00 · Sun 08:00–22:00

601 Decatur Street, 70130 · +1 504-523-6250

Its menu mentions: a children's menu · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Café Maspero's website. It can read what Café Maspero offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through bit.ly.

60%

39 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 "A cheap lunch menu near the centre" in New Orleans, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in New Orleans 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
A cheap lunch menu near the centre.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-13

Every place named in New Orleans, 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

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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:
“A cheap lunch menu near the centre.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Café Maspero compares

Where it stands

462 of 827 in New Orleans

Top 56% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: B.B. King's Blues Club C, Bub's Grab and Go C. Just below: Chartres House C, Curio C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 259,325 sites55%24%60%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood & Co. burger17 mCyes
Landry's Seafood House fish, burger, steak_house98 mBno
Tujague's Restaurant regional144 mByes
NOLA regional152 mCno
Monty's on the Square regional231 mDno
Antoine's Restaurant local, steak_house289 mByes
Brennan's Restaurant regional297 mAyes
Willie's Chicken Shack regional366 mFno
GW Fins local, seafood502 mCyes
Burger Bar burger555 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Café Maspero in New Orleans

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans82758%38%60%
Sites built with WordPress in New Orleans18363%39%60%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 27th of 827 in New Orleans, up from 462nd.

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. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. 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 New Orleans. 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.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /menu/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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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. Show the details