linguafrancaco.com is hard for agents to use.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Lingua Franca. It can read what Lingua Franca offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Order directly: order.toasttab.com/online/linguafranca through toast acting for the business · Menu: www.linguafrancaco.com/menus-1
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32 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new robots.txt blocked AI crawlers; No structured data for the business; Booking only through a marketplace; No llms.txt.
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.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Lacha Somtum D, Le Petit Jardin Cafe & Flowers D. Just below: Mian D, Portobello's Italian and Mediterranean Cuisine D.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 46% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |
The top tenth is the 144 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 7,341 sites | 66% | 50% | 49.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable 1,647 sites | 66% | 40% | 49.2% |
| Sites using Toast 2,267 sites | 72% | 58% | 49.2% |
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salazar mexican | 977 m | F | no |
| Denny's american | 981 m | B | yes |
| Park Pizza pizza | 1.2 km | D | yes |
| Astro Family Restaurant burger, breakfast, american, coffee_shop, sandwich, salad, mexican | 1.4 km | C | no |
| Bub and Grandma's Restaurant | 1.4 km | B | yes |
| Hot Tongue pizza | 1.4 km | A | yes |
| Forage breakfast, sandwich, salad, fish, steak_house | 1.9 km | D | yes |
| Edendale american | 2.0 km | B | yes |
| All'Acqua italian | 2.0 km | A | yes |
| Home State mexican, american | 2.0 km | B | yes |
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles | 1,438 | 53% | 39% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Los Angeles | 166 | 75% | 67% | 49.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Los Angeles | 55 | 70% | 44% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Los Angeles | 8 | 67% | 38% | 49.2% |
Encanto A 86.2% · Queen's Raw Bar and Grill B 76.9% · R10 Social House B 70.8% · Cafe Stella C 69.7% · Genghis Cohen C 66.2%
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User; Booking only through opentable) the score would be about 95.4%: 22nd of 1,438 in Los Angeles, up from 909th.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
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
These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
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 Los Angeles. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on squarespace is in the guides.
Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.
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": "Lingua Franca",
"url": "https://www.linguafrancaco.com/",
"telephone": "+1-323-522-3725",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Allesandro Street 2990",
"postalCode": "90039"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 34.1056322,
"longitude": -118.2440236
},
"servesCuisine": [
"local"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.linguafrancaco.com/menus-1",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/online/linguafranca",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them. # Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file. User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Lingua Franca > restaurant (local) in Allesandro Street 2990 90039, Los Angeles. Phone +1-323-522-3725. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/linguafranca (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.linguafrancaco.com/menus-1 ## About - Website: https://www.linguafrancaco.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR once. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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/linguafrancaco.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/los-angeles/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | order.toasttab.com/online/linguafranca vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.linguafrancaco.com/menus-1 html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1-323-522-3725 |
Stable links that count: /go/linguafrancaco.com/order, /go/linguafrancaco.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.
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 Toast | yes |
| Vendor terms for agents Toast, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · all vendors.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |