McDonald's
mcdonalds.com is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
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
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Read by AI agents 3 times this month. The crawlers behind the assistants read this page when they answer questions about the business.
37 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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. How to fix it
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /us/en-us/about-our-food.html: nothing new; menu page /us/en-us/full-menu.html: ordering link (other); booking page /us/en-us/mcdelivery.html: ordering via doordash_storefront; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
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.
Show the code 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. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "FastFoodRestaurant",
"name": "McDonald's",
"url": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/location/4234.html",
"telephone": "+1 718-617-0869",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Bruckner Boulevard 1600",
"postalCode": "10473",
"addressLocality": "Bronx"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 40.8233844,
"longitude": -73.874704
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Th 06:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 06:00-24:00; Su 06:00-23:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "06:00",
"closes": "23:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday",
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "06:00",
"closes": "24:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "06:00",
"closes": "23:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"burger"
],
"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>
How McDonald's compares
3,836 of 4,270 in New York
Top 90% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Max's Restaurant F, Maxi's Noodle F. Just below: McDonald's F, Meadowsweet F.
| What the top tenth 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 | 99% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | yes |
The top tenth is the 433 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Love NY Pizza pizza | 1.1 km | B | no |
| John's Diner diner | 1.1 km | C | no |
| Willie's Steak House steak_house | 1.3 km | C | no |
| Joe's Place spanish | 1.3 km | F | no |
| Hook & Reel Cajun Seafood & Bar seafood | 2.0 km | A | yes |
| Venice Pizzeria pizza | 2.1 km | C | yes |
| Al-Aqsa Restaurant bangladeshi | 2.2 km | A | yes |
| Lava Rock Kitchen | 2.2 km | D | no |
| Seis Vecinos honduran, mexican | 2.6 km | A | yes |
| Osaka Sushi japanese | 3.3 km | B | yes |
Businesses like McDonald's in New York
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in New York | 4,270 | 52% | 40% | 56.9% |
The best of Same kind in New York
Akdeniz A 100% · Amelie Wine Bar A 100% · Antoya Korean BBQ A 100% · Betty A 100% · Club A Steakhouse A 100%
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%: 74th of 4,270 in New York, up from 3836th.
This site appears in 40 cities (47 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.
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.
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<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>
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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What agents get for McDonald's
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/new-york/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mcdelivery.html own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/full-menu.html html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Th 06:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 06:00-24:00; Su 06:00-23:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1 718-617-0869 |
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.
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: menu page /us/en-us/full-menu.html: ordering link (other); booking page /us/en-us/mcdelivery.html: ordering via doordash_storefront.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| 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 | no |