# Lou Balico: Agent-Direct Score D (50.8%)

Site: https://loubalico.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/loubalico.com
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Lou Balico is hard for agents to use.

## Direct links
- Phone: +33 4 93 85 93 71

## 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Menu or price list lives on another site.** (+5 points) The link points to delicity.com, so the credit and the traffic go there. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Lou Balico",
  "url": "https://loubalico.com/",
  "telephone": "+33 4 93 85 93 71",
  "email": "info@loubalico.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste 20"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.7013624,
    "longitude": 7.2776451
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 12:00-14:30,19:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "14:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "19:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "regional"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://delicity.com/lou-balico"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Lou Balico

> restaurant (regional) in Avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste 20, Nice. Phone +33 4 93 85 93 71.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://delicity.com/lou-balico

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 12:00-14:30,19:00-23:00

## About

- Website: https://loubalico.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 is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.

## Where it stands
275 of 390 in Nice. Top 71% 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 | 80% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 40% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: L'Escalinada (F, 221 m, https://directindex.org/r/escalinada.fr); Le Gaglio (C, 242 m, https://directindex.org/r/legaglio.com); La Rossettisserie (B, 438 m, https://directindex.org/r/larossettisserie.com); L'Ecurie (D, 454 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-lecurie-nice.fr); Lu Fran Calin (D, 470 m, https://directindex.org/r/lu-francalin.fr); L'Uzine (D, 546 m, https://directindex.org/r/luzine-restaurant.com); Olive & Artichaut (C, 557 m, https://directindex.org/r/oliveartichaut.com); Lou Pastrouil (B, 566 m, https://directindex.org/r/loupastrouil.fr); 21 Paysans (F, 641 m, https://directindex.org/r/21paysans.com); Le Safari (C, 643 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurantsafari.fr).

## 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.

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

## Businesses like Lou Balico in Nice

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Nice | 390 | 57% | 32% | 50.8% |

The best of Same kind in Nice: CaSa Leya (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/casaleya.com); La Barque Bleue (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-la-barque-bleue.fr); 3 Brasseurs (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/3brasseurs.com); La Maison WM (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/wixsite.com); La Planxa (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/laplanxa.fr).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party; Menu or price list lives on another site) the score would be about 95.4%: 3rd of 390 in Nice, up from 275th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Lou Balico, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/loubalico.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://delicity.com/lou-balico (external; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 12:00-14:30,19:00-23:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +33 4 93 85 93 71
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/loubalico.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): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- 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): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## 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/loubalico.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: 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

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/loubalico.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=loubalico.com&force=1