# Château 49 French Bistro: Agent-Direct Score D (49.2%) Site: http://www.chateau49nyc.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/chateau49nyc.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Château 49 French Bistro is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Château 49 French Bistro's website. It can read what Château 49 French Bistro offers. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://chateau49nyc.com/brunch-menu - Phone: +19172616022 - Address: 924 2nd Ave, 10022, New York - Its menu mentions: a lunch or set menu - Prices: 11 prices on the site, the middle one $9.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Château 49 French Bistro that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Vin Sur Vingt (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/vsvwinebars.com - Deux Amis (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/deuxamisnyc.com - Le Petit Parisien USA (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/lepetitparisienusa.com - Restaurant Sola (400 m): https://directindex.org/r/sola-factory.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2018.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In New York, 76% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. - **11 prices on the landing page, the middle one $9.00.** In New York, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $14.00. ## Fix kit: What to paste 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Château 49 French Bistro > local business (french) in 924 2nd Ave, 10022, New York, New York. Phone +19172616022. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://chateau49nyc.com/brunch-menu ## About - Website: http://www.chateau49nyc.com/ - 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 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. ## Where it stands 6338 of 11000 in New York. Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% 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 | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Vin Sur Vingt (A, 170 m, https://directindex.org/r/vsvwinebars.com); Le Bateau Ivre (F, 189 m, https://directindex.org/r/lebateauivrenyc.com); Deux Amis (A, 212 m, https://directindex.org/r/deuxamisnyc.com); Barnea Bistro (C, 288 m, https://directindex.org/r/barneabistro.com); Le Petit Parisien USA (A, 327 m, https://directindex.org/r/lepetitparisienusa.com); Restaurant Sola (D, 403 m, https://directindex.org/r/sola-factory.com); Shun (F, 495 m, https://directindex.org/r/shun-nyc.com); Le Jardinier (C, 502 m, https://directindex.org/r/lejardinier-nyc.com); Paname (D, 555 m, https://directindex.org/r/panamenyc.com); Bistro Vendôme (C, 765 m, https://directindex.org/r/bistrovendomenyc.com). ## What assistants answer 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 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Château 49 French Bistro wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 217120 sites); This site 49.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/chateau49nyc.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Château 49 French Bistro in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11000 | 52% | 34% | 49.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in New York | 1841 | 61% | 37% | 49.2% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in New York: Aquarelle seafood & mediterranean east village restaurant NYC (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/aquarellenyc.com); Bango Bowls (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bangobowls.com); Benihana - New York West (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/benihana.com); Boulevard Pizza (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/boulevardpizza.com); China King (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/chinakingnc.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 336th of 11,000 in New York, up from 6338th. ## The direct record What agents get for Château 49 French Bistro, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/chateau49nyc.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://chateau49nyc.com/brunch-menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +19172616022 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/chateau49nyc.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): 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/chateau49nyc.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - 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 Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/chateau49nyc.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/chateau49nyc.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=chateau49nyc.com&force=1