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title: What an AI agent reads on El Grillito · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/elgrillito.nyc/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on El Grillito

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [elgrillito.nyc](https://www.elgrillito.nyc/), from the copy the scanner kept.

2,494

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

1

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (PerplexityBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: El Grillito NYC | Authentic Mexican Food Truck | 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, USA · language en. First 1,800 of 2,494 characters:

```
El Grillito NYC | Authentic Mexican Food Truck | 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, USA top of pageHomeLocationMenuWho We AreGalleryCateringContact Locations 20 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003 MAPTUE-THU 11:00AM - 12:30AM FRI & SAT 11:00AM - 4:00AM CLOSED SUN & MON ​Locations Who We Are “El Grillito” means cricket. It’s a childhood memory. My Abuela (grandmother) would take me to the fields to play “catching crickets” as a young boy. She also taught me how to cook for friends and family. All of our recipes are hers. She said, “Cook from your heart, and it will always be great.”While sitting in Soho on the stairs of Lucky Strike I received a call from the owner, Keith McNally. Lucky Strike would be closing due to the Pandemic and my 18 year tenor had come to an end. I met up fellow Lucky Strike employees that eveinging to throw around ideas for our next move. I mentioned I was thinking about opening a food truck for a while now. Everyone said it would be difficult but I had nothing to lose and knew I was up for the challenge. I spent many years working well accomplished restaurateurs like Andrew Tarlow, Mark Firth and Keith. I learned a great deal from them and thought, “I can do this too". I took a chance and created “El Grillito”, A large bright pink Mexican food truck with the help of a customer turned friend and now partner, Greg Richards. My dream came to life. We moved around a lot trying to find the right space to park but, thanks to NYU who hired us for a prior event at Cooper Square, we found our home base! If you’re wondering where the name “El Grillito” came from, it means cricket and it’s a childhood memory. My Abuela would take me to the fields to play catching crickets as a young boy. She also taught me how to cook. A
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML www.elgrillito.nyc/menu |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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