# Merit Vegetarian Cuisine: Agent-Direct Score A (87.7%)

Site: https://meritvegetarian.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/meritvegetarian.com
Scanned: 2026-10-17 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Merit Vegetarian Cuisine is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Merit Vegetarian Cuisine. What Merit Vegetarian Cuisine offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.meritvegetarian.com/reserve (on the business's own site)
- Order directly: https://meritvegan.square.site/faq (through square acting for the business)
- Phone: +1-408-245-8988

## What to fix first
- **Menu or price list lives on another site.** (+5 points) The link points to meritvegan.com, so the credit and the traffic go there. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- **Ordering through square on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-16 (D then)
- Fixed: The site turned every visitor without a browser away
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
357 of 566 in San Jose. Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index.

| 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 | 98% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 61% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 26% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Tasty Subs & Pizza (B, 171 m, https://directindex.org/r/tastysubspizza.com); Frankie (F, 184 m, https://directindex.org/r/myfrankie.net); Myzen Ramen (D, 227 m, https://directindex.org/r/myzenrestaurant.com); St. John's Bar & Grill (A, 270 m, https://directindex.org/r/stjohnsgrill.com); Laughing Monk Brewing (B, 381 m, https://directindex.org/r/laughingmonk.com); Swati Tiffins (C, 737 m, https://directindex.org/r/swathistiffin.com); Metro City Restaurant and Bar (A, 916 m, https://directindex.org/r/metrocitysunnyvale.com); California MoMo Kitchen (C, 929 m, https://directindex.org/r/camomokitchen.com); Tia Juana Grill (A, 941 m, https://directindex.org/r/tiajuanamexicangrill.com); Halal Fried Chicken (B, 945 m, https://directindex.org/r/hfcamerica.com).

## What assistants answer
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.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-16: 2026-10-16 49%, 2026-10-17 88%.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 49% (23% A or B, 7935 sites); Sites using Square 65% (42% A or B, 1380 sites); This site 87.7%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/meritvegetarian.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Merit Vegetarian Cuisine in San Jose

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in San Jose | 566 | 55% | 35% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with Wix in San Jose | 51 | 47% | 25% | 87.7% |
| Sites using Square in San Jose | 15 | 70% | 47% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Square in San Jose | 2 | 62% | 50% | 87.7% |

The best of the sites using Square in San Jose: The Diner of Los Gatos (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/lgdiner.com); Red Chili (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/redchilirestaurants.com); Metro City Restaurant and Bar (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/metrocitysunnyvale.com); One Pot Shabu Shabu (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/onepotshabushabu.com); Laughing Monk Brewing (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/laughingmonk.com).

With the fix above (Menu or price list lives on another site) the score would be about 95.4%: 20th of 566 in San Jose, up from 357th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Merit Vegetarian Cuisine, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/meritvegetarian.com
- Book: https://www.meritvegetarian.com/reserve (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-17, not yet tested)
- Order: https://meritvegan.square.site/faq (vendor on own site: Square; found by the scan of 2026-10-17, not yet tested)
- Menu: http://meritvegan.com/order (external; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 04:30-15:00,16:20-20:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-408-245-8988
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/meritvegetarian.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/meritvegetarian.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/meritvegetarian.com/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): yes
- 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 17 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/meritvegetarian.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/meritvegetarian.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/meritvegetarian.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=meritvegetarian.com&force=1