Marshall's Bar-B-Q
marshallsbarbq.com is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Marshall's Bar-B-Q directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through toast acting for the business. Report a mistake
5211 Forest Ln Ste 105, 75244, Dallas · (972) 490-7574
Places near Marshall's Bar-B-Q that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Mama's Pizza90 m · pizza
- Rusty Taco320 m · mexican
- Village Burger Bar620 m
- Onesan Dim Sum & Sushi630 m · dim sum
- Republic Texas Tavern640 m
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by Marshall's Bar-B-Q's website. It can read what Marshall's Bar-B-Q offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast.
49.6 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware
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.
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 Dallas and named 88 places. Marshall's Bar-B-Q wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Marshall's Bar-B-Q compares
430 of 1,679 in Dallas
Top 26% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Wing Daddy's B, WnB Factory B. Just below: Al Biernat's B, Bad Chicken B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 69% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 44% | no |
The top 10% are the 171 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using Toast 3,305 sites | 72% | 57% | 76.3% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street's Fine Chicken | 60 m | B | no |
| Mama's Pizza pizza | 90 m | C | yes |
| Jonathon's Forestwood american | 226 m | F | no |
| Rusty Taco mexican | 315 m | B | yes |
| Village Burger Bar | 621 m | A | yes |
| Onesan Dim Sum & Sushi dim_sum | 632 m | B | yes |
| Republic Texas Tavern | 638 m | A | yes |
| The Gem juice | 1.1 km | B | yes |
| Ku Sushi Japanese Cuisine japanese, sushi | 1.1 km | F | no |
| Renny's Bar & Grill american | 1.2 km | B | yes |
Businesses like Marshall's Bar-B-Q in Dallas
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Dallas | 1,679 | 55% | 35% | 76.3% |
| Sites using Toast in Dallas | 147 | 75% | 65% | 76.3% |
The best of the sites using Toast in Dallas
Bit of Grub A 100% · Cyclone Anaya's Mexican Kitchen A 100% · Good Side Pizza Pub A 100% · Hurtado Barbecue Dallas A 100% · Miriam Cocina Latina A 100%
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 107th of 1,679 in Dallas, up from 430th.
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.
What to fix first
- 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
- robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 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
- 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
- The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data
The site shows +19723950023, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists (972) 490-7574. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Dallas. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- 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 · contact page /contact-us.html: nothing new; menu page /menu.html: nothing new
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
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.
# Marshall's Bar-B-Q > restaurant (barbecue) in 5211 Forest Ln Ste 105, 75244, Dallas, Dallas. Phone (972) 490-7574. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://www.toasttab.com/marshall-s-bar-b-q-carrollton-1855-e-rosemeade/v3 (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.marshallsbarbq.com/menu.html ## About - Website: http://www.marshallsbarbq.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
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.
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/marshallsbarbq.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/marshallsbarbq.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.
Show the details
What agents get for Marshall's Bar-B-Q
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/marshallsbarbq.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/dallas/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | www.toasttab.com/marshall-s-bar-b-q-carrollton-1855-e-roseme vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.marshallsbarbq.com/menu.html html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | (972) 490-7574 |
Stable links that count: /go/marshallsbarbq.com/order, /go/marshallsbarbq.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.
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.
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | yes |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |