The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-23

Luling City Market

lulingcitymarket.com is ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Luling City Market directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through spoton acting for the business. Report a mistake

4726 Richmond Ave, 77027, Houston · +17138711903

Nearby, also direct

Places near Luling City Market that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Luling City Market's website. It can read what Luling City Market offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.

92.3%

60 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 61 places. Luling City Market wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Luling City Market compares

Where it stands

170 of 2,427 in Houston

Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Guadalajara Del Centro A, LA Crawfish Shack A. Just below: Mr. Fries Man A, Roegels Barbecue A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)92%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%yes
Have an llms.txt51%no

The top 10% are the 243 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using SpotOn 2,171 sites78%68%92.3%
Sites using ChowNow 1,059 sites72%54%92.3%

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Maxim's Restaurant429 mCyes
Kumari Tasty Grill american555 mDno
Uncle Louie G's - Houston, Texas589 mBno
Nielsen's Delicatesen deli, sandwich612 mByes
H.S. Green656 mAyes
Ambassador Chinese Restaurant chinese763 mByes
La Bar cajun_and_creole792 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Luling City Market in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston2,42753%34%92.3%
Sites using SpotOn in Houston6077%67%92.3%

The best of the sites using SpotOn in Houston

BARI RISTORANTE A 95.4% · Bori - Spring Branch A 95.4% · El Hidalguense A 95.4% · Lucio's A 95.4% · Ruggles Black A 95.4%

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Houston. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking through spoton on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Ordering through chownow on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /houston-galleria-houston-texas-luling-city-market-about: nothing new; menu page /houston-galleria-houston-texas-luling-city-market-food-menu: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

Show the code to paste

llms.txt

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

# Luling City Market

> restaurant (barbecue) in 4726 Richmond Ave, 77027, Houston, Houston. Phone +17138711903.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://tmt.spotapps.co/private-parties?spot_id=61924&source=pop_up&destination=private_parties&promotion=holiday_party (through spoton acting for the business)
- Order: https://ordering.chownow.com/order/22403/locations (through chownow acting for the business)
- Menu: https://lulingcitymarket.com/houston-galleria-houston-texas-luling-city-market-food-menu

## About

- Website: http://lulingcitymarket.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score A

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Luling City Market

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/lulingcitymarket.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booktmt.spotapps.co/private-parties?spot_id=61924&source=pop_up& vendor on own site: SpotOnfound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Orderordering.chownow.com/order/22403/locations vendor on own site: ChowNowfound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Menululingcitymarket.com/houston-galleria-houston-texas-luling-c html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+17138711903

Stable links that count: /go/lulingcitymarket.com/book, /go/lulingcitymarket.com/order, /go/lulingcitymarket.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
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Vendor terms for agents
SpotOn, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About SpotOn · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtno how
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 businessyes