The Direct Index
Report · Lausanne · scanned 2026-10-16

Istanbul

istanbul-grill.ch is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Istanbul directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Wed 08:00–00:00 · Thu 08:00–01:00 · Fri–Sat 08:00–02:00 · Sun 08:00–00:00

Rue des Côtes-de-Montbenon 20 1003 Lausanne · +41 21 311 14 93

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap) · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Prices: 14 prices on the site, the middle one CHF 17.25

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Nearby, also direct

Places near Istanbul that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Istanbul's website. It can read what Istanbul offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2020.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Lausanne, 73% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is. In Lausanne, 18% of comparable sites declare one.

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14 prices on the landing page, the middle one CHF 17.25.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "Something to eat after midnight, delivered or open late" in Lausanne, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Lausanne and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Something to eat after midnight, delivered or open late.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-16

Every place named in Lausanne, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/istanbul-grill.ch"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/istanbul-grill.ch.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Something to eat after midnight, delivered or open late.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Istanbul compares

Where it stands

113 of 382 in Lausanne

Top 30% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Berceau des Sens B, Cipollino B. Just below: L'Appart Lausanne B, L'Etoile Blanche B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain97%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%no
Have an llms.txt33%no

The top 10% are the 39 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 236,087 sites55%25%72.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tao asian11 mDyes
Tokyo japanese31 mFyes
Mexicana Grill mexican35 mAyes
MAD Café Lausanne60 mFno
Cipriano Bar italian61 mCno
Officine french67 mCyes
Brasserie Belleville77 mByes
Wawa’s Asian Kitchen asian95 mDno
Thaï Orchidée asian100 mByes
Crrsp Lausanne burger103 mDyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Istanbul in Lausanne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Lausanne38258%36%72.3%
Sites built with WordPress in Lausanne15767%46%72.3%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Lausanne

Jacques Restaurant A 100% · Restaurant Le Café du Tramway A 96.3% · Kung-Fu Cuisine A 92.5% · Laus'Angeles Sévelin A 90% · Pasta e Sfizi A 90%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 6th of 382 in Lausanne, up from 113th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Lausanne. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.
  • 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.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /carte: nothing new; booking page /reservation: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Istanbul",
  "url": "https://www.istanbul-grill.ch/",
  "telephone": "+41 21 311 14 93",
  "email": "eat@istanbul-grill.ch",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Rue des Côtes-de-Montbenon 20",
    "postalCode": "1003",
    "addressLocality": "Lausanne"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 46.5213018,
    "longitude": 6.6270249
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-We 08:00-00:00; Th 08:00-01:00; Fr,Sa 08:00-02:00; Su 08:00-24:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "01:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "turkish"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "http://www.istanbul-grill.ch/reservation",
  "hasMenu": "http://www.istanbul-grill.ch/carte",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://www.istanbul-grill.ch/reservation",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Istanbul

> restaurant (turkish) in Rue des Côtes-de-Montbenon 20 1003 Lausanne, Lausanne. Phone +41 21 311 14 93.

## Book or order directly

- Book: http://www.istanbul-grill.ch/reservation (on the business's own site)
- Menu: http://www.istanbul-grill.ch/carte

## Opening hours

Mo-We 08:00-00:00; Th 08:00-01:00; Fr,Sa 08:00-02:00; Su 08:00-24:00

## About

- Website: https://www.istanbul-grill.ch/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Istanbul

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/istanbul-grill.ch, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/lausanne/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.istanbul-grill.ch/reservation own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.istanbul-grill.ch/carte html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-We 08:00-00:00; Th 08:00-01:00; Fr,Sa 08:00-02:00; Su 08:00-24:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+41 21 311 14 93

Stable links that count: /go/istanbul-grill.ch/book, /go/istanbul-grill.ch/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno