The Direct Index
Report · Los Angeles · scanned 2026-10-15

Lingua Franca

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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49.2%

32 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.

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.

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.

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.

Where it stands

How Lingua Franca compares

Where it stands

909 of 1,438 in Los Angeles

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 doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours46%no
Have an llms.txt20%no

The top tenth is the 144 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,341 sites66%50%49.2%
Sites using OpenTable 1,647 sites66%40%49.2%
Sites using Toast 2,267 sites72%58%49.2%

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Salazar mexican977 mFno
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Park Pizza pizza1.2 kmDyes
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Bub and Grandma's Restaurant1.4 kmByes
Hot Tongue pizza1.4 kmAyes
Forage breakfast, sandwich, salad, fish, steak_house1.9 kmDyes
Edendale american2.0 kmByes
All'Acqua italian2.0 kmAyes
Home State mexican, american2.0 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Lingua Franca in Los Angeles

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles1,43853%39%49.2%
Sites built with Squarespace in Los Angeles16675%67%49.2%
Sites using OpenTable in Los Angeles5570%44%49.2%
Sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Los Angeles867%38%49.2%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Los Angeles

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%

The climb

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.

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. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User +10 points

    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

  3. Booking only through opentable +5 points

    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

  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

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Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

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 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.

Show the code to paste

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": "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>

robots.txt

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: /

llms.txt

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.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score D

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Lingua Franca

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.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.toasttab.com/online/linguafranca vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested
Menuwww.linguafrancaco.com/menus-1 html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone 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.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

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.

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