# El Carrito Restaurant: Agent-Direct Score D (47.1%) Site: https://www.elcarritorestaurant.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/elcarritorestaurant.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) El Carrito Restaurant is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open El Carrito Restaurant's website. What El Carrito Restaurant offers is on another site. To book or order, it is sent to ezCater, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Phone: +16195010095 - Address: 2154 Logan Ave, 92113, San Diego ## Nearby, also direct Places near El Carrito Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Todo Pa’ La Cruda (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/todopalacruda.com - Fish Guts (90 m): https://directindex.org/r/fishgutscalifornia.com - Tacos El Trompo (560 m): https://directindex.org/r/eltrompotacos.com - Viva Birria (770 m): https://directindex.org/r/vivabirria.com - El Pollo Loco (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/elpolloloco.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 - **Ordering only through ezcater.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Menu or price list is on another site.** (+5 points) The link goes to ezcater.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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 ## 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. ``` # El Carrito Restaurant > local business (mexican) in 2154 Logan Ave, 92113, San Diego, San Diego. Phone +16195010095. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.ezcater.com/catering/pvt/el-carrito-restaurant-3?fcv=1 ## About - Website: https://www.elcarritorestaurant.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. ## Where it stands 1457 of 2243 in San Diego. Top 65% 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 | 94% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 62% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 37% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Todo Pa’ La Cruda (B, 68 m, https://directindex.org/r/todopalacruda.com); Fish Guts (C, 94 m, https://directindex.org/r/fishgutscalifornia.com); Rolando's Taco Shop (F, 331 m, https://directindex.org/r/rolandostacoshop.com); Tacos El Trompo (A, 556 m, https://directindex.org/r/eltrompotacos.com); Viva Birria (B, 772 m, https://directindex.org/r/vivabirria.com); La Fachada (F, 781 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafes-world.com); El Pollo Loco (B, 871 m, https://directindex.org/r/elpolloloco.com); Tacos El Rico (D, 891 m, https://directindex.org/r/orderelpaisafreshmexicangrill.com); El Pariente San Diego (D, 974 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurantelpariente.com); Carnitas y Mariscos Las Morelianas (B, 1074 m, https://directindex.org/r/carnitasymariscoslasmorelianas.com). ## What assistants answer Asked on 2026-10-28 with web search on. 50% of the answers pointed to the business's own site or to a vendor working for it. That share is the Cited part of the score. | Assistant | Official website? | Where to book? | Where to order? | |---|---|---|---| | ChatGPT | own site | other site: elcarritorestaurantsd.com | vendor, direct: toast | | Gemini | other site: elcarritorestaurantsd.com | directory: google_maps | vendor, direct: toast | The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about San Diego and named 100 places. El Carrito Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/san-diego/recommended **What ChatGPT said, Official website? (2026-10-28):** https://www.elcarritorestaurant.com/ (elcarritorestaurant.com (https://www.elcarritorestaurant.com/?utmsource=openai)) **What ChatGPT said, Where to book? (2026-10-28):** You can book through El Carrito’s website: https://elcarritorestaurantsd.com/ (elcarritorestaurantsd.com (https://elcarritorestaurantsd.com/?utmsource=openai)) **What ChatGPT said, Where to order? (2026-10-28):** Order directly through El Carrito’s online ordering page: https://order.toasttab.com/online/el-carrito-restaurant-2154-logan-ave (https://order.toasttab.com/online/el-carrito-restaurant-2154-logan-ave) (order.toasttab.com (https://order.toasttab.com/online/el-carrito-restaurant-2154-logan-ave/item-el-carrito11f9135c-5f8d-42c9-97b0-0d91910d468c?utmsource=openai)) **What Gemini said, Official website? (2026-10-28):** The official website of El Carrito Restaurant in San Diego, United States, is elcarritorestaurantsd.com. **What Gemini said, Where to book? (2026-10-28):** You can book a table online at El Carrito Restaurant in San Diego through their official website. Please use the following link to make your reservation: https://vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/grounding-api-redirect/AUZIYQEjo8eomDClUEr0iJPe0Rh3AWF3Z4kV80S0pbMAGPyU8WYavthONvgDcNAmnr4A0e50GqsJBfwADysgzT5nqVD6c52-yRKIIYRiuh8L-IIyihgHSIWie-7MLYJZM=… **What Gemini said, Where to order? (2026-10-28):** You can order food online from El Carrito Restaurant in San Diego through their official website or various third-party delivery services. Here are the links you can use: El Carrito Restaurant Official Online Ordering: https://www.elcarritorestaurantsd.com/ DoorDash: https://www.doordash.com/store/el-carrito-san-diego-23652618/ Grubhub:… Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 33756 sites); Sites using ezCater 57% (25% A or B, 142 sites); This site 47.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/elcarritorestaurant.com/agent-view ## Why the assistants send people elsewhere Why (2026-10-28): Because the site lacks structured data describing the business and offers no booking path, ChatGPT and Gemini directed users to an alternate domain and Google Maps instead of elcarritorestaurant.com. ## Businesses like El Carrito Restaurant in San Diego | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in San Diego | 2243 | 55% | 36% | 47.1% | | Sites built with Squarespace in San Diego | 183 | 72% | 58% | 47.1% | | Sites using ezCater in San Diego | 11 | 59% | 18% | 47.1% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using ezCater in San Diego | 2 | 64% | 50% | 47.1% | The best of the sites using ezCater in San Diego: Maestro Lounge (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/maestrolounge.com); Curry and More (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/curryandmore.com); San Diego Burger Co. (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/sandiegoburgercompany.com); Key and Cleaver (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/keyandcleaver.com); Veganic Thai (C 61.5%, https://directindex.org/r/veganicthaicafe.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through ezcater; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 84.7%. That would be 341st of 2,243 in San Diego, up from 1457th. ## The direct record What agents get for El Carrito Restaurant, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/elcarritorestaurant.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.ezcater.com/catering/pvt/el-carrito-restaurant-3?fcv=1 (external; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +16195010095 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/elcarritorestaurant.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, ezCater: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 2 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 10 | 20 | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/elcarritorestaurant.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - 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/elcarritorestaurant.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/elcarritorestaurant.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=elcarritorestaurant.com&force=1