Old Ebbitt Grill
ebbitt.com is mostly ready for agents.
Order directly: order.toasttab.com/online/old-ebbitt-grill through toast acting for the business · Menu: www.ebbitt.com/menus/
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54 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- Booking only through opentable +5 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (FoodEstablishment) address, phone
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on bentobox is in the guides.
Show the code to paste
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Restaurant",
"name": "Old Ebbitt Grill",
"url": "https://www.ebbitt.com",
"telephone": "+1 202-347-4800",
"email": "info@ebbitt.com",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "15th Street Northwest 675",
"postalCode": "20005-5702",
"addressLocality": "Washington"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 38.898056,
"longitude": -77.0333288
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Fr 08:00-02:00; Sa-Su 09:00-02:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday"
],
"opens": "08:00",
"closes": "02:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Saturday",
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "09:00",
"closes": "02:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"american",
"seafood",
"steak house"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.ebbitt.com/menus/",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/online/old-ebbitt-grill",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Old Ebbitt Grill > restaurant (american, seafood, steak house) in 15th Street Northwest 675 20005-5702 Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +1 202-347-4800. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/old-ebbitt-grill (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.ebbitt.com/menus/ ## Opening hours Mo-Fr 08:00-02:00; Sa-Su 09:00-02:00 ## About - Website: https://www.ebbitt.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
How Old Ebbitt Grill compares
Not ranked yet in Washington, DC
The ranking refreshes hourly; this site joins it on the next refresh.
| What the top tenth 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 | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |
The top tenth is the 148 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 951 sites | 84% | 96% | 83.1% |
| Sites using OpenTable 1,462 sites | 67% | 43% | 83.1% |
| Sites using Toast 1,884 sites | 74% | 63% | 83.1% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab - Washington DC seafood | 221 m | B | yes |
| The Cheesecake Factory american | 223 m | A | yes |
| Proper 21 american | 247 m | C | yes |
| Avenue Grill american | 268 m | C | yes |
| Bobby Van's Steakhouse steak_house | 280 m | C | yes |
| Mastro's Steakhouse steak_house | 298 m | A | yes |
| The Oceanaire Seafood Room seafood | 417 m | B | yes |
| RARE Steaks & Seafood seafood, steak_house | 439 m | A | yes |
| The Oval Room american | 534 m | F | no |
| Bobby Van's Grill american | 541 m | B | yes |
Businesses like Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington, DC
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built with BentoBox in Washington, DC | 95 | 87% | 99% | 83.1% |
| Using OpenTable in Washington, DC | 51 | 77% | 67% | 83.1% |
| Built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Washington, DC | 17 | 87% | 100% | 83.1% |
The best of Built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Washington, DC
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Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/ebbitt.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/ebbitt.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Old Ebbitt Grill
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/ebbitt.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | order.toasttab.com/online/old-ebbitt-grill vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.ebbitt.com/menus/ html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Fr 08:00-02:00; Sa-Su 09:00-02:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1 202-347-4800 |
Stable links that count: /go/ebbitt.com/order, /go/ebbitt.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.
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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents Toast, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |