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title: What an AI agent reads on Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/oysterbarny.com/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [oysterbarny.com](https://www.oysterbarny.com/), from the copy the scanner kept.

45,744

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Home - Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant · language en-US. First 1,800 of 45,744 characters:

```
Home - Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Welcome to Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Skip to content 89 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 Grand Central Terminal, Lower Level Mon - Fri 11:30AM-9:30PM 212-490-6650 0 Home About Menu Private Dining Media Careers Contact Order online Make A Reservation UPDATE We are a New York landmark with Guastavino-tiled vaulted ceilings, located on the lower level of magnificent Grand Central Terminal. We are open Monday through Friday from 11:30 AM, with our last seating at 9:30 PM. A 15-minute grace period is provided for 9:30 PM reservations only. Please note that the kitchen closes at 10:00 PM Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to serving you. Make A Reservation 89 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 Grand Central Terminal, Lower Level 212-490-6650 Mon - Fri 11:30AM - 9:30PM From NEW YORK At 12:01 AM on February 2, 1913, the largest train station in the world and architectural wonder, Grand Central Terminal, opened to the public amid much fanfare. Three weeks later so too did the 440-seat Grand Central Oyster Bar. Back then, and for decades prior, oyster bars, stands, shacks, and cellars were an obsession in New York, and the opening of the terminal came right at the heyday of long-distance train travel, so it was a smart combo. The dining room supplied meals to the long-distance trains leaving the station and offered commuters and locals a place to slurp oysters and pan roasts at lunch and before heading home. The Oyster Bar space, designed by prolific New York architect Raphael Gustavino was then as it is now, grand and magnificent, accented with arched and vaulted ceilings covered in terracotta tiles. After a competing restaurateur passed on the space in 1912 (deeming it unappealing), concessionaire Union News sn
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | 212-490-6650 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML www.oysterbarny.com/menu/ |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (BreadcrumbList, EntryPoint, ImageObject, ListItem, PropertyValueSpecification, ReadAction) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [togoorder.com/web/4516#/](https://togoorder.com/web/4516#/) | ordering | an unrecognised third party |
| [www.opentable.com/grand-central-oyster-bar-reservations-new-york?restr](https://www.opentable.com/grand-central-oyster-bar-reservations-new-york?restref=179&lang=en-US&ot_source=Restaurant%20website) | booking | opentable, a marketplace |
| [www.oysterbarny.com/www.opentable.com/widget/reservation/loader?rid=17](https://www.oysterbarny.com/www.opentable.com/widget/reservation/loader?rid=179&type=standard&theme=standard&iframe=true&domain=com&lang=en-US&newtab=false&ot_source=Restaurant%20website) | booking | the business's own site |

Everything here comes from one fetch of the homepage as a crawler; the [report](https://directindex.org/r/oysterbarny.com) turns it into a score and fixes, with a kit to paste.

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```