# Alessa Cucina & Bar: Agent-Direct Score B (75.4%) Site: https://www.alessanyc.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/pennysbarnyc.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.) Alessa Cucina & Bar is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open the website of Alessa Cucina & Bar. It can read what Alessa Cucina & Bar offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.pennysbarnyc.com/menus - Phone: +1-929-532-2552 ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+1 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Alessa Cucina & Bar > restaurant (italian) in New York. Phone +1-929-532-2552. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.pennysbarnyc.com/menus ## Opening hours Mo-Sa 12:00-24:00, Su 12:00-22:00 ## About - Website: https://www.alessanyc.com - 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. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **Resy works with agents through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. 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. ## Where it stands 1040 of 3788 in New York. Top 27% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 48% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 14% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Stella 34 Trattoria (B, 355 m, https://directindex.org/r/stella34.com); Tavola (B, 422 m, https://directindex.org/r/tavolaofnewyork.com); Mercato (B, 463 m, https://directindex.org/r/mercatonyc.com); Pomodoro Italian Restaurant (D, 477 m, https://directindex.org/r/pomodoronyc.com); AperiBar (B, 544 m, https://directindex.org/r/aperibar.com); Valbella at the Park (C, 591 m, https://directindex.org/r/valbellaatthepark.com); Etcetera Etcetera (F, 777 m, https://directindex.org/r/etcetcnyc.com); Bond 45 (B, 881 m, https://directindex.org/r/bond45ny.com); Senza Gluten by Jemiko (B, 992 m, https://directindex.org/r/senzaglutenbyjemiko.com); Nino's 46 (A, 1050 m, https://directindex.org/r/ninos46.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 Squarespace 65% (48% A or B, 7098 sites); Sites using Resy 69% (48% A or B, 600 sites); This site 75.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/pennysbarnyc.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Alessa Cucina & Bar in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 3788 | 55% | 41% | 75.4% | | Sites built with Squarespace in New York | 544 | 74% | 64% | 75.4% | | Sites using Resy in New York | 274 | 68% | 46% | 75.4% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York | 100 | 69% | 46% | 75.4% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York: Barrio Chino (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/barriochinony.com); Concrete (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/concrete-brooklyn.com); Mayfield (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/mayfieldbk.com); Bar Camillo (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/barcamillo.com); Chela (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/chelaparkslope.com). With the two fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 65th of 3,788 in New York, up from 1040th. ## The direct record What agents get for Alessa Cucina & Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/pennysbarnyc.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.pennysbarnyc.com/menus (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Mo-Sa 12:00-24:00, Su 12:00-22:00 (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-929-532-2552 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/pennysbarnyc.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 - Vendor terms for agents, Resy: Through partners. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 21 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/pennysbarnyc.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: 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: 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/pennysbarnyc.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/pennysbarnyc.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=pennysbarnyc.com&force=1