The Direct Index
Report · Dallas cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-23

Lyla Dallas

lylarestaurant.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Lyla Dallas directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through toast acting for the business. Report a mistake

3309 McKinney Ave, 75204-2367, Dallas · +12142160575

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Lyla Dallas's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.

43.5%

28.3 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

5

things 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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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?" in Dallas cafes and bars, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Dallas cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-19

Every place named in Dallas cafes and bars, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lylarestaurant.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/lylarestaurant.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Lyla Dallas compares

Where it stands

343 of 542 in Dallas cafes and bars

Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Crown & Harp D, Classic Cup Cafe D. Just below: Quarterly Coffee D, American Legion D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours57%no
Have an llms.txt50%no

The top 10% are the 56 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Resy 830 sites67%45%43.5%
Sites using Toast 3,305 sites72%57%43.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Parlay Sports Club9 mFno
The Quarter Bar25 mByes
The Loon65 mByes
Chef Sharon Payot76 mFno
TBD78 mFno
Del Frisco's Grille143 mAyes
Uptown Pub320 mDno
Heroes Lounge343 mCyes
Bar Colette379 mDno
Upside West Village434 mBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Lyla Dallas in Dallas cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Dallas cafes and bars54253%29%43.5%
Sites using Resy in Dallas cafes and bars1263%42%43.5%

The best of the sites using Resy in Dallas cafes and bars

Isla & Co. B 84.6% · Two Hands B 77.5% · The Woolworth B 76.9% · Laurel Tavern B 72.3% · Nice Coffee Cocktail Bar B 72.3%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 47th of 542 in Dallas cafes and bars, up from 343rd.

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 structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. Booking only through resy +5 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  5. 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 Dallas cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Toast works with agents through its 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. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: unknown

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

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Lyla Dallas",
  "url": "https://www.lylarestaurant.com/",
  "telephone": "+12142160575",
  "address": "3309 McKinney Ave, 75204-2367, Dallas",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 32.80481585,
    "longitude": -96.79930151
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/online/lyla-3309-mckinney-avenue",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Lyla Dallas

> local business in 3309 McKinney Ave, 75204-2367, Dallas, Dallas cafes and bars. Phone +12142160575.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/lyla-3309-mckinney-avenue (through toast acting for the business)

## About

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

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If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lylarestaurant.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/lylarestaurant.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Lyla Dallas

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/lylarestaurant.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/dallas-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.toasttab.com/online/lyla-3309-mckinney-avenue vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+12142160575

Stable links that count: /go/lylarestaurant.com/order 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 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
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 businessno