# Gurkha Cafe: Agent-Direct Score C (61.1%)

Site: https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/gurkhacafe.co.uk
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.)
Gurkha Cafe is partly visible to agents.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/ghurka-cafe-and-restaurant-25-27-cockburn-street (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/menu.html
- Phone: +44 131 225 2832

## 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
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_429) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list 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, 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": "Gurkha Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 131 225 2832",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Cockburn Street 25-27",
    "postalCode": "EH1 1BP",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9506835,
    "longitude": -3.1901263
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "indian"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/menu.html",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/ghurka-cafe-and-restaurant-25-27-cockburn-street",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Gurkha Cafe

> restaurant (indian) in Cockburn Street 25-27 EH1 1BP Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Phone +44 131 225 2832.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/ghurka-cafe-and-restaurant-25-27-cockburn-street (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/menu.html

## About

- Website: https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/
- 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.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest 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. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
262 of 459 in Edinburgh. Top 57% 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% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 74% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 93% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Dishoom (A, 351 m, https://directindex.org/r/dishoom.com); Yaduvanshi (D, 372 m, https://directindex.org/r/yaduvanshiindianrestaurant.co.uk); Vinyasa (B, 423 m, https://directindex.org/r/vinyasaedinburgh.co.uk); Mowgli Street Food (C, 476 m, https://directindex.org/r/mowglistreetfood.com); Solti (B, 482 m, https://directindex.org/r/soltiedinburgh.co.uk); Namaste Kathmandu (C, 505 m, https://directindex.org/r/namastektm.co.uk); The Pakora Bar (C, 773 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepakorabar.co.uk); Tamil Teru (F, 783 m, https://directindex.org/r/tamilteru.com); Passage to India (B, 789 m, https://directindex.org/r/passage2india.co.uk); Kahani (A, 883 m, https://directindex.org/r/kahanirestaurant.co.uk).

## 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.

Against its peers: Sites using Toast 74% (63% A or B, 1884 sites); This site 61.1%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/gurkhacafe.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Gurkha Cafe in Edinburgh

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Edinburgh | 459 | 56% | 46% | 61.1% |
| Using Toast in Edinburgh | 4 | 61% | 25% | 61.1% |

The best of Using Toast in Edinburgh: Gigi's Italian Restaurant (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/gigisrestaurant.co.uk); The Butter Chicken (C 55.4%, https://directindex.org/r/thebutterchicken.co.uk); Stone fired (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/stonefired.co.uk).

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 87.7%: 38th of 459 in Edinburgh, up from 262nd.

## The direct record
What agents get for Gurkha Cafe, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/gurkhacafe.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/ghurka-cafe-and-restaurant-25-27-cockburn-street (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://www.gurkhacafe.co.uk/menu.html (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +44 131 225 2832
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/gurkhacafe.co.uk/order, https://directindex.org/go/gurkhacafe.co.uk/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): 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
- Vendor terms for agents, Toast: 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. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 21.7 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 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/gurkhacafe.co.uk
- 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/gurkhacafe.co.uk/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=gurkhacafe.co.uk&force=1