# El Nico: Agent-Direct Score C (57.4%)

Site: https://penny-hotel.com/elnico
Report: https://directindex.org/r/penny-hotel.com
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
El Nico is partly visible to agents.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.penny-hotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/elNico_WinterDinner-Menu_11.18.2025_v3-2.pdf
- Phone: +1-929-594-2028

## What to fix first
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "El Nico",
  "url": "https://penny-hotel.com/elnico",
  "telephone": "+1-929-594-2028",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "North 8th Street 288",
    "postalCode": "11211",
    "addressLocality": "Brooklyn"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7155266,
    "longitude": -73.9529936
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 14:00-22:00; Fr 14:00-01:00; Sa 09:00-01:00; Su 09:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "01:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "01:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "mexican"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.penny-hotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/elNico_WinterDinner-Menu_11.18.2025_v3-2.pdf"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# El Nico

> bar or pub (mexican) in North 8th Street 288 11211 Brooklyn, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-929-594-2028.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.penny-hotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/elNico_WinterDinner-Menu_11.18.2025_v3-2.pdf

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 14:00-22:00; Fr 14:00-01:00; Sa 09:00-01:00; Su 09:00-22:00

## About

- Website: https://penny-hotel.com/elnico
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **Structured data present (Person).** but without address, phone or hours

## Where it stands
719 of 1612 in New York cafes and bars. Top 45% 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 | 98% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 99% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 24% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 11% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Bobby's Night Out (B, 2383 m, https://directindex.org/r/bobbysnightout.com); Eastpoint (B, 2645 m, https://directindex.org/r/eastpointnyc.com); Starr Bar (B, 2783 m, https://directindex.org/r/starrbar.com); Calabrije's Margaritas & Tacos (D, 2797 m, https://directindex.org/r/calabrijesnyc.com); Empellón Al pastor (C, 2836 m, https://directindex.org/r/empellon.com); For All Things Good (B, 3119 m, https://directindex.org/r/forallthingsgoodbk.com); Superbueno (B, 3124 m, https://directindex.org/r/superbuenonyc.com); Maya Mezcal (C, 3233 m, https://directindex.org/r/mayamezcal.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.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 57.4%.

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

## Businesses like El Nico in New York cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in New York cafes and bars | 1612 | 46% | 30% | 57.4% |
| Built with WordPress in New York cafes and bars | 235 | 60% | 33% | 57.4% |

The best of Built with WordPress in New York cafes and bars: The Winslow (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/thewinslownyc.com); Vista Lounge (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/pendry.com); Kissa Kissa (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/kissakissa.us); La Bagel Delight (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/labageldelight.com); Brooklyn Bread (A 89.7%, https://directindex.org/r/brooklynbread.com).

With the three fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 90.8%: 30th of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars, up from 719th.

## The direct record
What agents get for El Nico, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/penny-hotel.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.penny-hotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/elNico_WinterDinner-Menu_11.18.2025_v3-2.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Th 14:00-22:00; Fr 14:00-01:00; Sa 09:00-01:00; Su 09:00-22:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-929-594-2028
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/penny-hotel.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): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- 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): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 18.3 | 25 |
| Readable | 13 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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/penny-hotel.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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- 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: yes
- OAuth protected resource metadata: yes
- 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

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/penny-hotel.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=penny-hotel.com&force=1