The Direct Index
Report · San Diego cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Fernside

fernsidebar.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

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

Fern Street 1946 92102 San Diego · +1-619-255-9591

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Fernside 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 Fernside's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

Where it stands

How Fernside compares

Where it stands

167 of 859 in San Diego cafes and bars

Top 19% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: EXCELSA B, Elmisa Cafe Rancho Bernardo B. Just below: Fuzz Coffee and Records B, Harbor and Sky Rooftop Bar and Lounge 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 HTML94%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours34%yes
Have an llms.txt40%yes

The top 10% are the 87 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 42,583 sites54%31%73.8%
Sites using Toast 6,097 sites73%62%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Seven Seas Roasting Company29 mFyes
Stone Company Store302 mDno
The Rose Wine Bar309 mByes
Whistle Stop332 mCyes
Rebecca's Coffee Shop357 mByes
Fall Brewing Company Golden Rhino Room390 mDno
Mothership405 mFno
Southside Cafe461 mBno
Bock514 mBno
Hamilton's Tavern515 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Fernside in San Diego cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in San Diego cafes and bars85950%26%73.8%
Sites built with Wix in San Diego cafes and bars5757%35%73.8%
Sites using Toast in San Diego cafes and bars7673%55%73.8%
Sites built with Wix and using Toast in San Diego cafes and bars868%63%73.8%

The best of the sites built with Wix and using Toast in San Diego cafes and bars

The Bullpen Bar & Grill A 87.7% · The Rose Wine Bar B 83.1% · Sangucheria PSF B 80% · Compa Coffee Roasters B 75.4% · Dripz Coffee C 69.7%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 49th of 859 in San Diego cafes and bars, up from 167th.

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. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. 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 San Diego cafes and bars. 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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: wix · almost no text without JavaScript

Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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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 Fernside

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/fernsidebar.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-diego-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.toasttab.com/fernside vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-619-255-9591

Stable links that count: /go/fernsidebar.com/order 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
yes
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
Toast
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Toast, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · all vendors.

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.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
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