# City Island Diner: Agent-Direct Score F (27.7%)

Site: http://www.cityislanddiner.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/cityislanddiner.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.)
City Island Diner is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open City Island Diner's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://order.chownow.com/order/32443/locations?add_cn_ordering_class=true (through chownow acting for the business)
- Menu: https://cityislanddiner.com/our-menu
- Phone: 7188850362
- Address: City Island Avenue 304

## Nearby, also direct
Places near City Island Diner that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Sea Shore Restaurant (880 m): https://directindex.org/r/seashorerestaurant.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2022.** 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.

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "City Island Diner",
  "url": "http://www.cityislanddiner.com/",
  "telephone": "7188850362",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "City Island Avenue 304"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.8471948,
    "longitude": -73.7862102
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american",
    "seafood"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://cityislanddiner.com/our-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.chownow.com/order/32443/locations?add_cn_ordering_class=true",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Ordering through chownow on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
8853 of 11180 in New York. Top 79% 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% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Sea Shore Restaurant (A, 877 m, https://directindex.org/r/seashorerestaurant.com); City Island (F, 1087 m, https://directindex.org/r/cityisland.com); Johnny's Reef Restaurant (D, 1095 m, https://directindex.org/r/johnnysreefrestaurant.com); Tony's Pier Restaurant (B, 1112 m, https://directindex.org/r/tonyspiercityisland.com); Eastside Grill (F, 4023 m, https://directindex.org/r/wickedwolfny.com); Wicked Wolf Bronx (B, 4038 m, https://directindex.org/r/wickedwolfbronx.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 23 everyday questions about New York and named 160 places. City Island Diner wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 35% (9% A or B, 7569 sites); Sites using ChowNow 73% (55% A or B, 1147 sites); This site 27.7%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/cityislanddiner.com/agent-view

## Businesses like City Island Diner in New York

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11180 | 52% | 34% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in New York | 217 | 42% | 19% | 27.7% |
| Sites using ChowNow in New York | 219 | 76% | 59% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using ChowNow in New York | 5 | 60% | 60% | 27.7% |

The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using ChowNow in New York: Tanoshi Tei (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/tanoshitei.com); DiVino Pizzeria (B 82.6%, https://directindex.org/r/divinospizzeria.com); Bayridge Sushi (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/bayridgesushibk.com); Somethingreek (F 18.5%, https://directindex.org/r/somethingreekonline.com).

With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 1210th of 11,180 in New York, up from 8853rd.

## The direct record
What agents get for City Island Diner, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cityislanddiner.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://order.chownow.com/order/32443/locations?add_cn_ordering_class=true (vendor on own site: ChowNow; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://cityislanddiner.com/our-menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: 7188850362
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/cityislanddiner.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/cityislanddiner.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
- Vendor terms for agents, ChowNow: Not stated. ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines; they do not address an agent placing an order for a person, and no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://get.chownow.com/terms-of-service

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/cityislanddiner.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/cityislanddiner.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=cityislanddiner.com&force=1