# El Habanero Mexican Grill: Agent-Direct Score F (28.2%)

Site: http://habaneromtl.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/habaneromtl.com
Scanned: 2026-10-19 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
El Habanero Mexican Grill is largely invisible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by El Habanero Mexican Grill's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to Uber Eats, a marketplace.

## Direct links
- Phone: (514) 840-4540

## What to fix first

- **No structured data for the business.** (+15 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Ordering only through ubereats.** (+12 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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 working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.
- **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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "El Habanero Mexican Grill",
  "url": "http://habaneromtl.com",
  "telephone": "(514) 840-4540",
  "address": "977 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, H3B 4W3, Montreal",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.50119944721804,
    "longitude": -73.5720626708537
  }
}
</script>
```

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

```
# El Habanero Mexican Grill

> local business (mexican) in 977 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, H3B 4W3, Montreal, Montreal. Phone (514) 840-4540.

## About

- Website: http://habaneromtl.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.
- **Uber Eats works with agents through its partners.** Uber's US terms of use (12 October 2026) bar scripts that burden the services and any use to build software or train AI; its Claude and ChatGPT integrations only browse menus, with checkout in the Uber Eats app. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.uber.com/legal/en/document/?name=general-terms-of-use&country=united-states&lang=en. 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.

## Where it stands
1832 of 2162 in Montreal. Top 85% 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 | 99% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 38% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 32% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Messa 14 (F, 601 m, https://directindex.org/r/mesa14.com); Les Trois amigos (F, 935 m, https://directindex.org/r/3amigosrestaurant.com); La Capitale Tacos (C, 1180 m, https://directindex.org/r/lacapitaltacos.ca); La Toxica (A, 1216 m, https://directindex.org/r/latoxica.ca); La Catrina (B, 1441 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurantlacatrina.ca); Escondite (C, 1492 m, https://directindex.org/r/escondite.com); Tacos Nation (D, 1505 m, https://directindex.org/r/tacosnation.ca); 3 Amigos (B, 1688 m, https://directindex.org/r/3amigosrestaurants.com); Mañana (C, 1879 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurantmanana.ca); Yadira (F, 1957 m, https://directindex.org/r/netlify.app).

## 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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Montreal and named 82 places. El Habanero Mexican Grill wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/montreal/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites using Uber Eats 62% (33% A or B, 1135 sites); This site 28.2%.

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

## Businesses like El Habanero Mexican Grill in Montreal

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Montreal | 2162 | 51% | 27% | 28.2% |
| Sites using Uber Eats in Montreal | 80 | 61% | 29% | 28.2% |

The best of the sites using Uber Eats in Montreal: Restaurant Abu El Zulof (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/abuelzulof.com); Boom J's Cuisine (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/boomjscuisine.ca); Kirkland Resto Bar (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/kirklandrestobar.ca); Aqua E Farina (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/aquafarina.ca); Chez Gatse (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/chezgatserestaurant.ca).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through ubereats; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 80.5%. That would be 260th of 2,162 in Montreal, up from 1832nd.

## The direct record
What agents get for El Habanero Mexican Grill, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/habaneromtl.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: (514) 840-4540

## 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
- Vendor terms for agents, Uber Eats: Through partners. Uber's US terms of use (12 October 2026) bar scripts that burden the services and any use to build software or train AI; its Claude and ChatGPT integrations only browse menus, with checkout in the Uber Eats app. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.uber.com/legal/en/document/?name=general-terms-of-use&country=united-states&lang=en

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 15.3 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 3 | 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/habaneromtl.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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/habaneromtl.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/habaneromtl.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=habaneromtl.com&force=1
