# The Ginger Man: Agent-Direct Score B (79.5%) Site: http://www.gingerman-ny.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/gingerman-ny.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Ginger Man is mostly ready for agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by The Ginger Man's website. It can read what The Ginger Man offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/contact/ (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/food/ - Address: 11 E 36th St, 10016, New York ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Ginger Man that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Slatterlys Midtown Pub (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/slatterysmidtownpub.com - Aussie Hole In The Wall Cafe & Cocktail Bar (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/holeinthewallnyc.com - A to Z Rooftop on Fifth (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/atozrooftoponthefifth.com ## What to fix first - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Ginger Man > organization in 11 E 36th St, 10016, New York, New York cafes and bars. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/contact/ (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/food/ ## About - Website: http://www.gingerman-ny.com/ - 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 main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 597 of 4076 in New York cafes and bars. Top 15% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 22% | no | Nearest places in the index: Slatterlys Midtown Pub (B, 25 m, https://directindex.org/r/slatterysmidtownpub.com); Peter Dillon's (D, 48 m, https://directindex.org/r/peterdillons.com); Aussie Hole In The Wall Cafe & Cocktail Bar (A, 158 m, https://directindex.org/r/holeinthewallnyc.com); MAD Bar & Lounge (D, 167 m, https://directindex.org/r/madbar-nyc.com); Reichenbach Hall (C, 187 m, https://directindex.org/r/reichenbachhall.com); Butterfield 8 (F, 187 m, https://directindex.org/r/butterfield8nyc.com); A to Z Rooftop on Fifth (A, 195 m, https://directindex.org/r/atozrooftoponthefifth.com); The Westbury (B, 228 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewestburynyc.com); The Australian (D, 230 m, https://directindex.org/r/theaustraliannyc.com); Playwright Irish Pub (F, 231 m, https://directindex.org/r/playwrightirishpubnyc.com). ## What assistants answer 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. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 79.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/gingerman-ny.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Ginger Man in New York cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York cafes and bars | 4076 | 48% | 26% | 79.5% | | Sites built with WordPress in New York cafes and bars | 681 | 57% | 27% | 79.5% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in New York cafes and bars: Morning Star Cafe (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/morningstaronsecond.com); The Winslow (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/thewinslownyc.com); Madison Club Lounge (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/ammosny.com); TAO Downtown Nightclub (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/taogroup.com); The Molly Pitcher Club (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/themollypitcher.club). With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 44th of 4,076 in New York cafes and bars, up from 597th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Ginger Man, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/gingerman-ny.com - Book: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/contact/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.gingerman-ny.com/food/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/gingerman-ny.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/gingerman-ny.com/menu ## 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): 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 21.7 | 25 | | Readable | 15 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 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/gingerman-ny.com - 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: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/gingerman-ny.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/gingerman-ny.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=gingerman-ny.com&force=1