The Direct Index
Report · Philadelphia · scanned 2026-10-24

Mercer Cafe

mercercafephilly.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Mercer Cafe directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

2619 E Westmoreland St, 19134-5228, Philadelphia · 12154262153

Nearby, also direct

Places near Mercer Cafe 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 Mercer Cafe's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

62%

40.3 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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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 22 everyday questions about Philadelphia and named 105 places. Mercer Cafe wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Mercer Cafe compares

Where it stands

824 of 2,075 in Philadelphia

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Desi Village C, Le Virtu C. Just below: 48th Street Grille C, Allegro Pizza C.

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 HTML84%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)86%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours67%no
Have an llms.txt26%no

The top 10% are the 210 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with BentoBox 2,256 sites80%86%62%
Sites using Square 5,073 sites65%41%62%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Miles Table breakfast_and_brunch7 mCyes
3 Brothers Pizza & Pasta pizza229 mFno
Czerw's Polish Kielbasa polish241 mDno
La Roma Restaurant + Bar291 mDno
New China Restaurant chinese308 mAyes
Tony's Pizzeria pizza474 mBno
Mom-Mom's Kitchen polish508 mFno
Bonk's Bar543 mFno
Spice Grill chinese548 mDno
IHOP breakfast, pancake646 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Mercer Cafe in Philadelphia

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia2,07550%31%62%
Sites built with BentoBox in Philadelphia3984%85%62%
Sites using Square in Philadelphia2966%45%62%
Sites built with BentoBox and using Square in Philadelphia276%50%62%

The best of the sites using Square in Philadelphia

The Legends Of Seafood And Soul Food A 92.3% · Snap Custom Pizza A 90.8% · Saami Somi A 87.7% · LeBus East Falls B 84.6% · Metropolitan Bakery B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 185th of 2,075 in Philadelphia, up from 824th.

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 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

  2. 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

  3. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

  4. 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

  5. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows 215-419-5973, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists 12154262153. 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

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

No one is listed yet to fix this in Philadelphia. 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.
  • Structured data found (FoodEstablishment) address, phone
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: bentobox · contact page /about/: 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 bentobox.

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": "FoodEstablishment",
  "name": "Mercer Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.mercercafephilly.com",
  "telephone": "12154262153",
  "address": "2619 E Westmoreland St, 19134-5228, Philadelphia",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 39.9864657,
    "longitude": -75.1006889
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://miles-table.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Mercer Cafe

> food establishment in 2619 E Westmoreland St, 19134-5228, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Phone 12154262153.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://miles-table.square.site/ (through square acting for the business)

## About

- Website: https://www.mercercafephilly.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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Agent-Direct Score C

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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 Mercer Cafe

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/mercercafephilly.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/philadelphia/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordermiles-table.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone12154262153

Stable links that count: /go/mercercafephilly.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
Square
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · 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 businessyes