# The Loon Cafe: Agent-Direct Score C (55.8%)

Site: https://www.looncafe.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/looncafe.com
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Loon Cafe is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of The Loon Cafe. It can read what The Loon Cafe offers. It finds no link to book or order online, only a phone number.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.looncafe.com/minneapolis/menu/
- Phone: +1 612 332 8342

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp, which agents cannot use yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_429), ClaudeBot (http_429) 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Loon Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.looncafe.com",
  "telephone": "+1 612 332 8342",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "1st Avenue North 500",
    "postalCode": "55403",
    "addressLocality": "Minneapolis"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 44.980408,
    "longitude": -93.2740075
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Th 11:30-22:00; Fr-Sa 11:30-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.looncafe.com/minneapolis/menu/"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# The Loon Cafe

> bar or pub in 1st Avenue North 500 55403 Minneapolis, Minneapolis cafes and bars. Phone +1 612 332 8342.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.looncafe.com/minneapolis/menu/

## Opening hours

Tu-Th 11:30-22:00; Fr-Sa 11:30-23:00

## About

- Website: https://www.looncafe.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 key AI user agents.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
81 of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars. Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth 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 | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 38% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Mezzo Mezzo (C, 196 m, https://directindex.org/r/mezzomezzompls.com); Tom’s Watch Bar (A, 211 m, https://directindex.org/r/tomswatchbar.com); Lyon's Pub (A, 224 m, https://directindex.org/r/lyonspub.com); 7th Street Entry (C, 261 m, https://directindex.org/r/first-avenue.com); The Depot Tavern (F, 263 m, https://directindex.org/r/thedepottavern.com); Underground Music Cafe (B, 272 m, https://directindex.org/r/undergroundmusicvenue.com); Public Domain (F, 394 m, https://directindex.org/r/publicdomainmpls.com); The Saloon (D, 471 m, https://directindex.org/r/saloonmn.com); The Office Pub & Grill (D, 471 m, https://directindex.org/r/theofficepubandgrill.com); Blackwater (A, 491 m, https://directindex.org/r/blackwatercc.com).

## What assistants answer
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.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 59% (32% A or B, 54721 sites); This site 55.8%.

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

## Businesses like The Loon Cafe in Minneapolis cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis cafes and bars | 160 | 51% | 26% | 55.8% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars | 34 | 62% | 26% | 55.8% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Minneapolis cafes and bars: Crooked Pint Ale House (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/crookedpint.com); Mari's Watch Bar (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/mariswatchbar.com); Day Block Brewing Company (A 98.5%, https://directindex.org/r/dayblockbrewing.com); Tom’s Watch Bar (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/tomswatchbar.com); StormKing (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/stormkingbrewpub.com).

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 6th of 160 in Minneapolis cafes and bars, up from 81st.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Loon Cafe, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/looncafe.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.looncafe.com/minneapolis/menu/ (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Tu-Th 11:30-22:00; Fr-Sa 11:30-23:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1 612 332 8342
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/looncafe.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

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /minneapolis/contact/: phone.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 18.3 | 25 |
| Readable | 16 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 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/looncafe.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/looncafe.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/looncafe.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=looncafe.com&force=1