The Elgin

What to fix first

1. 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

2. BentoBox's terms do not allow agents; a direct form on your own site would +5 points

   BentoBox's terms of service (5 January 2023) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://getbento.com/terms. An agent that books or orders there acts against the vendor's terms; a form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. How to fix it About this vendor

3. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

   Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

4. 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 New York cafes and bars. 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 bentobox on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

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.

Structured data (JSON-LD) Copy

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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Elgin",
  "url": "https://www.elginnyc.com",
  "telephone": "+1-212-221-2100",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7583068,
    "longitude": -73.9808668
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo 11:00-23:00; Tu-Fr 11:00-24:00; Sa 11:00-23:00; Su 14:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "pub",
    "pizza"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.elginnyc.com/menus/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&amp;utm_campaign=elginnyc.com",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt Copy

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# The Elgin

> bar or pub (pub, pizza) in New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-212-221-2100.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=elginnyc.com (through bentobox acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.elginnyc.com/menus/

## Opening hours

Mo 11:00-23:00; Tu-Fr 11:00-24:00; Sa 11:00-23:00; Su 14:00-22:00

## About

- Website: https://www.elginnyc.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.

217 of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars

Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Bonnie B, The Campbell Bar B. Just below: The Mean Fiddler B, The Naked Pig B.

The top tenth is the 182 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Nearest places with a similar menu

Businesses like The Elgin in New York cafes and bars

The best of Built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in New York cafes and bars

Union Square Cafe A 90.8% · White Oak Tavern A 87.7% · The Skylark B 83.1%

The climb

With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; BentoBox's terms do not allow agents; a direct form on your own site would; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 100%: first of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars.

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 agents get for The Elgin

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/elginnyc.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Stable links that count: /go/elginnyc.com/order, /go/elginnyc.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.

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

BentoBox's terms of service (5 January 2023) say you will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers or data mining tools, except search engines; no agent programme was found. Source. About BentoBox · 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.

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.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Show the score

Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/elginnyc.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/elginnyc.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>

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