# Veranda Al Fresco: Agent-Direct Score A (87.7%)

Site: https://www.hotelfigueroa.com/bars-restaurants/veranda
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hotelfigueroa.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.)
Veranda Al Fresco is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Veranda Al Fresco's website. What Veranda Al Fresco offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SevenRooms.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/lacasitadtla (through sevenrooms acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.hotelfigueroa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/19065905/digital_TRANSITIONMENU_Lacasita-final_v1_compressed.pdf
- Phone: (213) 660-3032
- Address: 939 S Figueroa St # 500, 90015, Los Angeles

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Veranda Al Fresco that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Rosemary Grill (760 m): https://directindex.org/r/rosemary-grill.com
- Pasha's Persian Restaurant (900 m): https://directindex.org/r/classicthairestaurant.com
- Downtown Kabob (1 km): https://directindex.org/r/downtownkabob.com

## What to fix first
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **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

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

```
# Veranda Al Fresco

> restaurant (mediterranean) in 939 S Figueroa St # 500, 90015, Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Phone (213) 660-3032.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/lacasitadtla (through sevenrooms acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.hotelfigueroa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/19065905/digital_TRANSITIONMENU_Lacasita-final_v1_compressed.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.hotelfigueroa.com/bars-restaurants/veranda
- 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.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Booking through sevenrooms on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- **SevenRooms works with agents through its partners.** SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://sevenrooms.com/terms-of-service/. 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
526 of 4566 in Los Angeles. Top 12% 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 | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 38% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Shekarchi Bar & Grill (C, 574 m, https://directindex.org/r/shekarchirestaurant.com); 10e Restaurant (C, 608 m, https://directindex.org/r/10erestaurant.com); Rosemary Grill (B, 764 m, https://directindex.org/r/rosemary-grill.com); Pasha's Persian Restaurant (C, 904 m, https://directindex.org/r/classicthairestaurant.com); Downtown Kabob (A, 1033 m, https://directindex.org/r/downtownkabob.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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Los Angeles and named 95 places. Veranda Al Fresco wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236087 sites); Sites using SevenRooms 74% (64% A or B, 4812 sites); This site 87.7%.

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

## Businesses like Veranda Al Fresco in Los Angeles

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles | 4566 | 50% | 32% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Los Angeles | 914 | 61% | 37% | 87.7% |
| Sites using SevenRooms in Los Angeles | 28 | 79% | 82% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using SevenRooms in Los Angeles | 4 | 82% | 75% | 87.7% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using SevenRooms in Los Angeles: Manuela (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/manuela-la.com); Matu Kai (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/matusteak.com); La Pergoletta (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/lapergoletta.com).

With the fix above (Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 278th of 4,566 in Los Angeles, up from 526th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Veranda Al Fresco, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hotelfigueroa.com
- Book: https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/lacasitadtla (vendor on own site: SevenRooms; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.hotelfigueroa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/19065905/digital_TRANSITIONMENU_Lacasita-final_v1_compressed.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: (213) 660-3032
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/hotelfigueroa.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/hotelfigueroa.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
- Vendor terms for agents, SevenRooms: Through partners. SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://sevenrooms.com/terms-of-service/

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 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/hotelfigueroa.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/hotelfigueroa.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/hotelfigueroa.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=hotelfigueroa.com&force=1