The Direct Index
Report · Baltimore cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-13

Cafe on the Square

cafeonthesquaremenu.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Cafe on the Square directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake

11 South Paca Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 · +1 410-625-1441

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cafe on the Square 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 Cafe on the Square's website. What Cafe on the Square offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly, through olo.menuocity.com.

52.3%

34 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

4

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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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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Baltimore cafes and bars and named 52 places. Cafe on the Square wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Cafe on the Square compares

Where it stands

141 of 292 in Baltimore cafes and bars

Top 48% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The 305 D, Llamas' Corner D. Just below: Guilford Hall Brewery D, Mick O'Shea's D.

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 HTML93%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours23%no
Have an llms.txt17%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Webflow 10,557 sites56%22%52.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Kirbies Grill & Cafe61 mFno
Crema Coffee79 mDno
The Hipp Cafe92 mFno
The 305242 mDno
Sunny Side Cafe250 mCyes
Faidley's Seafood310 mByes
Baltimore Brewhouse321 mCno
Dunkin Donuts325 mFno
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf334 mByes
Section 771366 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cafe on the Square in Baltimore cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore cafes and bars29250%25%52.3%
Sites built with Webflow in Baltimore cafes and bars643%0%52.3%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 2nd of 292 in Baltimore cafes and bars, up from 141st.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). 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. Menu or price list is on another site +5 points

    The link goes to menuocity.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. How to fix it

  4. 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 Baltimore cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.

Builder: webflow · contact page /about.html: 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.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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