# Costa Grande: Agent-Direct Score D (50.8%) Site: http://www.lacostagrande.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/lacostagrande.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.) Costa Grande is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Costa Grande's website. What Costa Grande offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly, through costagranderestaurant.dine.online. ## Direct links - Phone: +1-818-779-0131 - Address: Sepulveda Boulevard 7139 91405 - Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 10:00–21:00 - Prices: 7 prices on the site, the middle one $20.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Costa Grande that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Mariscos Corona (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/mariscoscorona.com - Marisco Las Islitas (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/themenustar2.com - Pablito's Tacos (1.6 km): https://directindex.org/r/pablitostacos.com - Gallo Giro (1.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/gallogiro.com - Mariscos Guadalajara (2.4 km): https://directindex.org/r/guadalajaragrill.us ## 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 through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Menu or price list is on another site.** (+5 points) The link goes to themenustar1.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. 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 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **7 prices on the landing page, the middle one $20.00.** In Los Angeles, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $15.00. ## 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. ``` # Costa Grande > restaurant (mexican) in Sepulveda Boulevard 7139 91405, Los Angeles. Phone +1-818-779-0131. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://themenustar1.com/webspace/menus.php?code=lacostagrande.mobile-webview1.com ## Opening hours Mo-Su 10:00-21:00 ## About - Website: http://www.lacostagrande.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. ## Where it stands 2258 of 4350 in Los Angeles. Top 52% 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% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 37% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Beans And Limes (F, 133 m, https://directindex.org/r/beansandlimes.com); Mariscos Corona (A, 871 m, https://directindex.org/r/mariscoscorona.com); Socorro's Restaurant (F, 926 m, https://directindex.org/r/socorrosrestaurant.com); Marisco Las Islitas (C, 1125 m, https://directindex.org/r/themenustar2.com); Pablito's Tacos (C, 1608 m, https://directindex.org/r/pablitostacos.com); Gallo Giro (C, 1711 m, https://directindex.org/r/gallogiro.com); Sabor Mexicano Bar & Grill (F, 1738 m, https://directindex.org/r/albertosweb.com); Cemitas Don Adrian (F, 1761 m, https://directindex.org/r/qrcodes.pro); Mariscos Guadalajara (B, 2394 m, https://directindex.org/r/guadalajaragrill.us); Carnitas Michoacan (F, 2461 m, https://directindex.org/r/carnitas.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 12 everyday questions about Los Angeles and named 95 places. Costa Grande wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 217120 sites); This site 50.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/lacostagrande.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Costa Grande in Los Angeles | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles | 4350 | 50% | 31% | 50.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in Los Angeles | 838 | 61% | 35% | 50.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Los Angeles: Baja Cantina (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bajacantina.com); Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Le Sanglier French Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/lesanglierrestaurant.com); Mixt (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/mixt.com); Shanghai Rose (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/shanghairosedimsum.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 115th of 4,350 in Los Angeles, up from 2258th. ## The direct record What agents get for Costa Grande, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/lacostagrande.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://themenustar1.com/webspace/menus.php?code=lacostagrande.mobile-webview1.com (external; from the scan) - Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-818-779-0131 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/lacostagrande.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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 2 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 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/lacostagrande.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/lacostagrande.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/lacostagrande.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=lacostagrande.com&force=1