The Direct Index
Report · Florence cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

McCafé

mcdonalds.com is partly visible to agents.

Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of McCafé. It can read what McCafé offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Questa pagina in italiano

Order directly: www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mcdelivery.html on the business's own site · Menu: www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/full-menu.html

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Read by AI agents 3 times this month. The crawlers behind the assistants read this page when they answer questions about the business.

56.9%

37 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No structured data for the business.

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How McCafé compares

Where it stands

41 of 46 in Florence cafes and bars

Top 89% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pasticceria Giorgio F, Caffè Lietta F. Just below: McCafé F, Pasticcieria Anna F.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain50%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML50%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours40%no
Have an llms.txt30%yes

The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Starbucks coffee_shop513 mCyes
Caffè Gilli coffee_shop, dessert714 mDno
Shake Café breakfast, brunch, coffee_shop715 mFno
shake cafe & juice bar sandwich, international, coffee_shop, breakfast, bagel, tea885 mFno
Ditta Artigianale breakfast, coffee_shop1.3 kmDno
Jazz Bistrot breakfast, coffee_shop, diner, tea, pizza, pastry, cake3.1 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like McCafé in Florence cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Florence cafes and bars4644%11%56.9%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Florence cafes and bars

Fico B 81.5% · Jazz Bistrot B 78.8% · Rusticheria B 75.4% · ChiaroScuro B 73.8% · The Arts Inn B 72.3%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 46 in Florence cafes and bars.

This site appears in 42 cities (54 places on mcdonalds.com). Every city it is in →

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Florence cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /us/en-us/about-our-food.html: nothing new; menu page /us/en-us/full-menu.html: nothing new; booking page /us/en-us/mcdelivery.html: ordering via doordash_storefront; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

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

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "McCafé",
  "url": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/mccafe",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.7768578,
    "longitude": 11.2485598
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "coffee shop"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/full-menu.html",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mcdelivery.html",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/mcdonalds.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/mcdonalds.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for McCafé

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mcdelivery.html own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuwww.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/full-menu.html html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Agents and people followed 1 direct link to this business this month (1 by AI agents).

Stable links that count: /go/mcdonalds.com/order, /go/mcdonalds.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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /us/en-us/mcdelivery.html: ordering via doordash_storefront.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
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