The Direct Index
Report · New York · scanned 2026-10-23

Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings

joestower49.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Report a mistake

7 E 48th St, 10017, New York · +12123333868

Nearby, also direct

Places near Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings 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 Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings's website. It can read what Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings offers. To book or order, it is sent to ezCater, a marketplace.

53.8%

35 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2021.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In New York, 76% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings compares

Where it stands

5,791 of 11,000 in New York

Top 53% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Jamaica Breeze Buffet D, Jamaican Best Restaurant D. Just below: John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen D, Johnny's Reef Restaurant D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours59%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 1114 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using ezCater 106 sites59%29%53.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Best Sichuan chinese, szechuan78 mDyes
Wu Liang Ye chinese236 mFno
Mr. Sun chinese267 mDno
Chef Guo - 小国宴 chinese480 mDyes
China Grill chinese481 mFno
Blue Willow chinese665 mByes
Bites of Xi’an chinese691 mDno
Nanking chinese735 mFno
Szechuan Gourmet chinese, tea742 mFno
Shun Lee Palace chinese746 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings in New York

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New York11,00052%34%53.8%
Sites using ezCater in New York1263%42%53.8%

The best of the sites using ezCater in New York

425 Restaurant by Jean-Georges A 87.7% · Ponty Bistro B 73.8% · T.K.K. Fried Chicken B 73.8% · Gus and Marty's B 72.3% · Old Traditional Polish Cuisine B 70.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through ezcater), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 336th of 11,000 in New York, up from 5791st.

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. Ordering only through ezcater +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. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. 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 New York. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.

Builder: unknown · contact page /about.html: nothing new; menu page /menu.html: almost no text without JavaScript

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 your builder.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings",
  "url": "http://www.joestower49.com/",
  "telephone": "+12123333868",
  "address": "7 E 48th St, 10017, New York",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.75707448,
    "longitude": -73.97731529
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings

> local business (chinese) in 7 E 48th St, 10017, New York, New York. Phone +12123333868.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.joestower49.com/menu.html

## About

- Website: http://www.joestower49.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings

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/joestower49.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.joestower49.com/menu.html html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+12123333868

Stable links that count: /go/joestower49.com/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
Vendor terms for agents
ezCater, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About ezCater · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu.html: almost no text without JavaScript.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
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