The Direct Index
Report · Washington, DC · scanned 2026-10-14

Lincoln's Waffle Shop

lincolnswaffleshop.com is hard for agents to use.

Menu: www.lincolnswaffleshop.com/menu.html

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D
44.2%

28.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering path at all +15 points

    Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Live fetches as ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: webflow · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on webflow is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Lincoln's Waffle Shop",
  "url": "https://www.lincolnswaffleshop.com/",
  "telephone": "+1 202-638-4008",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "10th Street Northwest 504",
    "postalCode": "20004-1401",
    "addressLocality": "Washington"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 38.8966087,
    "longitude": -77.0262106
  },
  "openingHours": "06:00-14:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "06:00",
      "closes": "14:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.lincolnswaffleshop.com/menu.html"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Lincoln's Waffle Shop

> restaurant (american) in 10th Street Northwest 504 20004-1401 Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +1 202-638-4008.

## Book or order directly

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

## Opening hours

06:00-14:00

## About

- Website: https://www.lincolnswaffleshop.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Washington, DC

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Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Webflow 1,854 sites57%25%44.2%

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Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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.txtyes
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
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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Owners

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