The Nickel Sandwich Grill
nickelsandwichgrill.com is largely invisible to agents.
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Ways to reach The Nickel Sandwich Grill directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Report a mistake
5601 Lyons Ave, 77020, Houston · +17136748020
Places near The Nickel Sandwich Grill that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Build a Pizza1.2 km
- Zunex Restaurant & Seafood Bar1.6 km · seafood
- Birdies Icehouse2 km · bar and grill
- Taconmadre (Food Truck)2.1 km · taco
- Mr. Tucan (Food Truck)3.2 km · mexican
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Nickel Sandwich Grill's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.
22 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Not Ready
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 Houston and named 62 places. The Nickel Sandwich Grill wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Nickel Sandwich Grill compares
1,854 of 2,427 in Houston
Top 76% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Branch F, The Marq'E F. Just below: The Real Food Co F, Uncle Chin F.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 92% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 72% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 51% | no |
The top 10% are the 243 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 217,120 sites | 55% | 24% | 33.8% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas and Thomas BBQ & Catering barbecue | 417 m | B | no |
| Build a Pizza | 1.2 km | A | yes |
| Alamos Taqueria mexican | 1.5 km | F | no |
| Zunex Restaurant & Seafood Bar seafood | 1.6 km | B | yes |
| Cafe El Caracol | 1.7 km | F | no |
| Birdies Icehouse bar_and_grill | 2.0 km | C | yes |
| Taconmadre (Food Truck) taco | 2.1 km | B | yes |
| J and J Lounge | 2.1 km | F | no |
| Taqueria El Rojo Loco mexican | 3.2 km | F | no |
| Mr. Tucan (Food Truck) mexican | 3.2 km | C | yes |
Businesses like The Nickel Sandwich Grill in Houston
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Houston | 2,427 | 53% | 34% | 33.8% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Houston | 501 | 62% | 42% | 33.8% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress in Houston
2 Phat Bastard Pies A 100% · Aladdin Mediterranean cuisine A 100% · Burger Bodega A 100% · First Watch A 100% · Foodgod Truffle Fries A 100%
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 90.8%. That would be 184th of 2,427 in Houston, up from 1854th.
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
- 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points
There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- 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
- No working HTTPS +3 points
The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse 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
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Houston. 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.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
Builder: wordpress
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 wordpress.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.
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": "LocalBusiness",
"name": "The Nickel Sandwich Grill",
"url": "http://www.nickelsandwichgrill.com/",
"telephone": "+17136748020",
"address": "5601 Lyons Ave, 77020, Houston",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 29.776791284802453,
"longitude": -95.31485619738125
}
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Nickel Sandwich Grill > local business (barbecue) in 5601 Lyons Ave, 77020, Houston, Houston. Phone +17136748020. ## About - Website: http://www.nickelsandwichgrill.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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.
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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What agents get for The Nickel Sandwich Grill
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-23 found no booking or ordering link on nickelsandwichgrill.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/nickelsandwichgrill.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +17136748020 |
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 |
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | no how |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| 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 | no |