# Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%) Site: http://www.joestower49.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/joestower49.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.) Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings is hard for agents to use. 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. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.joestower49.com/menu.html - Phone: +12123333868 - Address: 7 E 48th St, 10017, New York ## 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. - The Best Sichuan (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/mala747.com - Chef Guo - 小国宴 (480 m): https://directindex.org/r/chefguo.com - Blue Willow (670 m): https://directindex.org/r/bluewillownyc.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 - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **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 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **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. ## 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. ``` # 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. ``` ## 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. ## Where it stands 5791 of 11000 in New York. Top 53% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: The Best Sichuan (D, 78 m, https://directindex.org/r/mala747.com); Wu Liang Ye (F, 236 m, https://directindex.org/r/wu-liang-ye.com); Mr. Sun (D, 267 m, https://directindex.org/r/mrsun48.com); Chef Guo - 小国宴 (D, 480 m, https://directindex.org/r/chefguo.com); China Grill (F, 481 m, https://directindex.org/r/chinagrillrestaurant.com); Blue Willow (B, 665 m, https://directindex.org/r/bluewillownyc.com); Bites of Xi’an (D, 691 m, https://directindex.org/r/bitesofxian.com); Nanking (F, 735 m, https://directindex.org/r/nankingrestaurantgroup.com); Szechuan Gourmet (F, 742 m, https://directindex.org/r/szechuan-gourmet.com); Shun Lee Palace (F, 746 m, https://directindex.org/r/shunleepalace.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 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: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites using ezCater 59% (29% A or B, 106 sites); This site 53.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/joestower49.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11000 | 52% | 34% | 53.8% | | Sites using ezCater in New York | 17 | 61% | 35% | 53.8% | The best of the sites using ezCater in New York: 425 Restaurant by Jean-Georges (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/425parkrestaurant.com); Broadway Slice (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/broadwayslice.com); Ponty Bistro (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/pontybistroharlem.com); T.K.K. Fried Chicken (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/tkkusa.com); Gus and Marty's (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/gusandmartys.com). 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. ## The direct record What agents get for Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/joestower49.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.joestower49.com/menu.html (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +12123333868 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/joestower49.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, ezCater: 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. Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu.html: almost no text without JavaScript. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/joestower49.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/joestower49.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/joestower49.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=joestower49.com&force=1