# Kashkaval Cheese Market: Agent-Direct Score B (72.3%)

Site: http://www.kashkaval.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/kashkaval.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.)
Kashkaval Cheese Market is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Kashkaval Cheese Market's website. What Kashkaval Cheese Market offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.

## Direct links
- Menu: http://www.kashkaval.com/menus/2026-09-Dinner.pdf?v=cfd774f678b1f38d
- Phone: (212) 581-8282
- Address: 856 9th Ave, 10019, New York
- Prices: 9 prices on the site, the middle one $8.00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Kashkaval Cheese Market that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Rise Bar (40 m): https://directindex.org/r/risebarnyc.com
- Group Photos (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/groupphotos.com
- NYC Dueling Pianos (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/bar9ny.com
- Central Park Tavern (190 m): https://directindex.org/r/centralparktavern.com
- The Grey Dog - Columbus Circle (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/thegreydog.com

## What to fix first
- **Booking only through resy.** (+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/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Ordering only through grubhub.** (+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 working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.
- **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
- **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows +12122451758, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists (212) 581-8282. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **9 prices on the landing page, the middle one $8.00.** In New York, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $15.00.

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Kashkaval Cheese Market

> restaurant in 856 9th Ave, 10019, New York, New York cafes and bars. Phone (212) 581-8282.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: http://www.kashkaval.com/menus/2026-09-Dinner.pdf?v=cfd774f678b1f38d

## About

- Website: http://www.kashkaval.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.** 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
- **Resy works with agents through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. 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
958 of 4112 in New York cafes and bars. Top 23% 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 | 97% | no |
| 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 | 36% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 23% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Oasis Cafe (D, 40 m, https://directindex.org/r/theoasiscafe.com); Rise Bar (A, 44 m, https://directindex.org/r/risebarnyc.com); Group Photos (C, 106 m, https://directindex.org/r/groupphotos.com); Valhalla (D, 135 m, https://directindex.org/r/valhallabarnyc.com); NYC Dueling Pianos (C, 170 m, https://directindex.org/r/bar9ny.com); The Sheffield Rooftop (F, 176 m, https://directindex.org/r/thesheffield57.com); Simple Brewing Company (F, 189 m, https://directindex.org/r/simplebrewingcompany.org); Central Park Tavern (A, 190 m, https://directindex.org/r/centralparktavern.com); Ikebana Zen (D, 191 m, https://directindex.org/r/ikebanazennyc.com); The Grey Dog - Columbus Circle (A, 205 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegreydog.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.


Compared with its peers: Sites using Resy 67% (44% A or B, 2728 sites); Sites using Grubhub 66% (52% A or B, 514 sites); This site 72.3%.

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

## Businesses like Kashkaval Cheese Market in New York cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York cafes and bars | 4112 | 48% | 27% | 72.3% |
| Sites using Resy in New York cafes and bars | 306 | 66% | 43% | 72.3% |

The best of the sites using Resy in New York cafes and bars: Lucky Tiger (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/luckytigernyc.com); ONE40 (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/one40rooftop.com); American Bar (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/americanbarnyc.com); Aussie Hole In The Wall Cafe & Cocktail Bar (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/holeinthewallnyc.com); The Cactus Shop (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/thecactusshopnyc.com).

With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Ordering only through grubhub; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 4,112 in New York cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for Kashkaval Cheese Market, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/kashkaval.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: http://www.kashkaval.com/menus/2026-09-Dinner.pdf?v=cfd774f678b1f38d (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: (212) 581-8282
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/kashkaval.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, Resy: Through partners. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 22 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 3 | 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/kashkaval.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/kashkaval.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/kashkaval.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=kashkaval.com&force=1