North Bowl
northbowlphilly.com is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of North Bowl. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Order directly: www.toasttab.com/north-bowl/giftcards through toast acting for the business
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50 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.
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.
How North Bowl compares
37 of 222 in Philadelphia cafes and bars
Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: K’Far B, Loretta's B. Just below: Talula's Daily B, The Dandelion B.
| 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 | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 43% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 4% | no |
The top tenth is the 23 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 1,027 sites | 85% | 96% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Toast 2,267 sites | 72% | 58% | 76.9% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison K Cookies dessert, cookie | 170 m | F | yes |
| Ortlieb's Lounge | 171 m | D | no |
| Dolce & Caffe coffee_shop, italian | 266 m | F | no |
| Bourbon & Branch | 273 m | A | yes |
| The 700 | 283 m | F | no |
| Higher Grounds Cafe | 350 m | F | no |
| Cafe La Maude french, lebanese | 357 m | C | no |
| Other Half Brewing | 399 m | B | yes |
| Philadelphia Distilling | 441 m | A | yes |
| Craft Hall | 441 m | D | no |
Businesses like North Bowl in Philadelphia cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia cafes and bars | 222 | 50% | 24% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with BentoBox in Philadelphia cafes and bars | 3 | 86% | 100% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Toast in Philadelphia cafes and bars | 34 | 66% | 38% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with BentoBox and using Toast in Philadelphia cafes and bars | 1 | 77% | 100% | 76.9% |
The best of the sites using Toast in Philadelphia cafes and bars
The Plough & the Stars A 100% · Devil's Alley Bar & Grill A 95.4% · Con Murphy's A 92.3% · The SideCar Bar & Grille A 92.3% · Artesano Cafe A 87.7%
The climb
With the fix above (No menu or price list found) the score would be about 87.7%: 15th of 222 in Philadelphia cafes and bars, up from 37th.
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 to fix first
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing 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 Philadelphia cafes and bars. 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.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (FoodEstablishment) address, phone, opening hours
- Ordering through toast on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about/: nothing new
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on bentobox is in the guides.
Show the code to paste
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# North Bowl > bar or pub in North 2nd Street 909 19123 Philadelphia, Philadelphia cafes and bars. Phone +1 215-238-2695. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://www.toasttab.com/north-bowl/giftcards (through toast acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://www.northbowlphilly.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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Show the score
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/northbowlphilly.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/northbowlphilly.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" 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 North Bowl
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/northbowlphilly.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/philadelphia-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | www.toasttab.com/north-bowl/giftcards vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1 215-238-2695 |
Stable links that count: /go/northbowlphilly.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.
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 Toast | yes |
| Vendor terms for agents Toast, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · all vendors.
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 | 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 | yes |