# The Farmgate Café: Agent-Direct Score C (60%)

Site: https://www.farmgatecork.ie/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/farmgatecork.ie
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Farmgate Café is partly visible to agents.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.farmgatecork.ie/menu/breakfast
- Phone: +353 21 427 8134

## What to fix first
- **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Farmgate Café",
  "url": "https://www.farmgatecork.ie/",
  "telephone": "+353 21 427 8134",
  "email": "info@farmgatecork.ie",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "postalCode": "T12 NC8Y",
    "addressLocality": "Cork"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.8978042,
    "longitude": -8.4739628
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Sa 09:30-15:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:30",
      "closes": "15:30"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "regional"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.farmgatecork.ie/menu/breakfast"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# The Farmgate Café

> restaurant (regional) in T12 NC8Y Cork, Cork. Phone +353 21 427 8134.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.farmgatecork.ie/menu/breakfast

## Opening hours

Mo-Sa 09:30-15:30

## About

- Website: https://www.farmgatecork.ie/
- 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 key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
60 of 118 in Cork. Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth 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 | 67% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 83% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 17% | no |

Nearest places in the index: O'Flynn's Gourmet Sausages (B, 27 m, https://directindex.org/r/oflynnsgourmetsausages.ie); Maki Sushi (B, 39 m, https://directindex.org/r/makisushirolls.com); The Sandwich Stall (D, 42 m, https://directindex.org/r/sandwichstall.ie); Burger King (F, 61 m, https://directindex.org/r/whopper.ie); Krispy Kreme (F, 82 m, https://directindex.org/r/krispykreme.com); Nosta (A, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/nosta.ie); Risorante Rossini (B, 95 m, https://directindex.org/r/rossini.ie); Cafe Mexicana (D, 108 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafemexicana.ie); Nosh 19 (F, 119 m, https://directindex.org/r/nosh19.ie); Oak Fire Pizza (B, 124 m, https://directindex.org/r/oakfirepizza.ie).

## What assistants answer
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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/farmgatecork.ie/agent-view

## Businesses like The Farmgate Café in Cork

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Cork | 118 | 53% | 40% | 60% |

The best of Same kind in Cork: The Barn Gastropub (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/thebarn.ie); DoMa Pizza (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/domalicious.org); The Brasserie (A 94.9%, https://directindex.org/r/radcork.com); Hillbilly's (A 91.3%, https://directindex.org/r/hillbillys.ie); Tequila Jack's (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/tequilajacks.ie).

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 95.4%: 2nd of 118 in Cork, up from 60th.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Farmgate Café, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/farmgatecork.ie
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.farmgatecork.ie/menu/breakfast (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-15:30 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +353 21 427 8134
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/farmgatecork.ie/menu
- Agents and people followed 1 direct link to this business this month (1 by AI agents).

## 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): 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

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/farmgatecork.ie
- 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

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/farmgatecork.ie/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=farmgatecork.ie&force=1