# House of Phở: Agent-Direct Score C (56.9%) Site: http://houseofphomenu.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/houseofphomenu.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) House of Phở is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open House of Phở's website. It can read what House of Phở offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://order.toasttab.com/online/house-of-pho2 (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: http://houseofphomenu.com/menu.html - Address: Camden Avenue 1852 95124 San Jose ## Nearby, also direct Places near House of Phở that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - TacoMania (Taco Truck) (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/tacomaniainc.com - Papa John's (380 m): https://directindex.org/r/papajohns.com - Chef Li (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/chefli.com - Lanna Thai Cuisine (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/lannathaisj.com - Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza (1.2 km): https://directindex.org/r/papamurphys.com ## 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 - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. ``` # House of Phở > restaurant (vietnamese) in Camden Avenue 1852 95124 San Jose, San Jose. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/house-of-pho2 (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: http://houseofphomenu.com/menu.html ## About - Website: http://houseofphomenu.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.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **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. ## Where it stands 542 of 1080 in San Jose. Top 50% 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 | 90% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 36% | no | Nearest places in the index: TacoMania (Taco Truck) (D, 207 m, https://directindex.org/r/tacomaniainc.com); Papa John's (C, 375 m, https://directindex.org/r/papajohns.com); Premium Pizza (D, 514 m, https://directindex.org/r/premiumpizza-sj.com); Rangoli (C, 991 m, https://directindex.org/r/sanjoserangoli.com); Benihibachi (F, 1002 m, https://directindex.org/r/behibachi.com); Chef Li (F, 1116 m, https://directindex.org/r/chefli.com); Shima Sushi (D, 1117 m, https://directindex.org/r/shimasushisj.com); Lanna Thai Cuisine (C, 1123 m, https://directindex.org/r/lannathaisj.com); Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza (C, 1164 m, https://directindex.org/r/papamurphys.com); Al Castello Ristorante Italiano (A, 1292 m, https://directindex.org/r/alcastelloristorante.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 22 everyday questions about San Jose and named 125 places. House of Phở wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/san-jose/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites using Toast 73% (62% A or B, 6097 sites); This site 56.9%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/houseofphomenu.com/agent-view ## Businesses like House of Phở in San Jose | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in San Jose | 1080 | 52% | 32% | 56.9% | | Sites using Toast in San Jose | 70 | 72% | 59% | 56.9% | The best of the sites using Toast in San Jose: Castillo's Mexican Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/castillosmexrestaurant.com); Shih lin (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/shihlinca.com); Tomato Thyme (A 96.9%, https://directindex.org/r/tomato-thyme.com); Happi House (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/happihouse.com); Limon Llc. (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/limonrestaurants.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No working HTTPS; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 99th of 1,080 in San Jose, up from 542nd. ## The direct record What agents get for House of Phở, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/houseofphomenu.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/house-of-pho2 (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Menu: http://houseofphomenu.com/menu.html (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/houseofphomenu.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/houseofphomenu.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 (Toast): yes - 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/ Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu.html: almost no text without JavaScript. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 20 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/houseofphomenu.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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/houseofphomenu.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/houseofphomenu.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=houseofphomenu.com&force=1