The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-24

Escalante’s

escalantes.net is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuWebsite

Ways to reach Escalante’s directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through bentobox acting for the business. Report a mistake

Westheimer Road 4053

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, a children's menu, a lunch or set menu

Nearby, also direct

Places near Escalante’s that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Escalante’s's website. It can read what Escalante’s offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

80%

52 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 61 places. Escalante’s wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Escalante’s compares

Where it stands

542 of 2,663 in Houston

Top 20% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: El Alebrije Oaxacan Streetfood B, El Tapatio B. Just below: FDs Famous Burgers, Chicago-Style Wings & Soul Food B, Fabaceae African Cuisine Inc. B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML97%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%no
Have an llms.txt53%no

The top 10% are the 271 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with BentoBox 2,256 sites80%86%80%
Sites using OpenTable 6,152 sites69%51%80%
Sites using BentoBox 476 sites86%92%80%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Little Rey mexican291 mDno
Caracol mexican, seafood1.5 kmAyes
Blanco Cocina + Cantina mexican1.8 kmByes
Urbe mexican1.9 kmAyes
Texas Taphouse burger, mexican1.9 kmDno
100% Taquito mexican2.1 kmDyes
Picos Restaurant mexican2.9 kmCyes
La Tapatia mexican3.0 kmDno
Freebirds mexican3.5 kmByes
Velvet Taco mexican3.9 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Escalante’s in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston2,66354%35%80%
Sites built with BentoBox in Houston7485%91%80%
Sites using OpenTable in Houston9772%55%80%
Sites built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Houston1386%92%80%

The best of the sites built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Houston

Brasserie 19 A 100% · Amore A 96.3% · Da Gama Canteen A 95.4% · Victory A 95.4% · Numero28 Highland Village A 87.7%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Booking only through opentable), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 121st of 2,663 in Houston, up from 542nd.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +5 points

    Missing: telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through opentable +5 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. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Houston. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.
  • Structured data found (FoodEstablishment) address
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through bentobox on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: bentobox · contact page /about/: ordering via bentobox; menu page /menus/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on bentobox.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Escalante’s",
  "url": "http://www.escalantes.net/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Westheimer Road 4053"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.7412348,
    "longitude": -95.4472271
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "mexican"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.escalantes.net/menus/#fall-2026-lto-copy",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://media-cdn.getbento.com/accounts/fdcd520dfa9331acaddc5da021ea92e0/media/rkpzfuLTOqMc0VULVEH6_RII3HoaQ3SECGYeXoQrI_ESC%207.13.2022%20Application%20of%20Employment.pdf",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Escalante’s

> restaurant (mexican) in Westheimer Road 4053, Houston.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://media-cdn.getbento.com/accounts/fdcd520dfa9331acaddc5da021ea92e0/media/rkpzfuLTOqMc0VULVEH6_RII3HoaQ3SECGYeXoQrI_ESC%207.13.2022%20Application%20of%20Employment.pdf (through bentobox acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.escalantes.net/menus/#fall-2026-lto-copy

## About

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

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/escalantes.net"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/escalantes.net.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Escalante’s

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/escalantes.net, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordermedia-cdn.getbento.com/accounts/fdcd520dfa9331acaddc5da021ea vendor on own site: BentoBoxfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuwww.escalantes.net/menus/#fall-2026-lto-copy html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/escalantes.net/order, /go/escalantes.net/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.

Transactable

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
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
BentoBox, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

BentoBox's terms (last updated 5 January 2023) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines and public archives; they do not address an agent making a reservation for a person, and no agent programme was found. Source. About BentoBox · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /about/: ordering via bentobox.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes