The Direct Index
Report · New York · scanned 2026-10-14

Pershing Square

pershingsquare.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Menu: pershingsquare.com/dinner/

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55.4%

36 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through opentable +12 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. Ordering only through grubhub +12 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  4. 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

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Pershing Square",
  "url": "https://www.pershingsquare.com/",
  "telephone": "+2122869600",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7519669,
    "longitude": -73.9777869
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://pershingsquare.com/dinner/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Pershing Square

> restaurant in New York. Phone +2122869600.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://pershingsquare.com/dinner/

## About

- Website: https://www.pershingsquare.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

How Pershing Square compares

Where it stands

2,377 of 4,270 in New York

Top 56% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Patiala Indian Grill C, Paulie Gee's Slice Shop C. Just below: Pho 60 C, Provini C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 433 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 36,926 sites58%29%55.4%
Sites using OpenTable 1,462 sites67%43%55.4%
Sites using Grubhub 150 sites66%44%55.4%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Grand Brasserie french61 mBno
Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant seafood63 mCyes
Previti pizza pizza127 mByes
Katagiri japanese, ramen, sushi129 mDno
Palladino's Steak & Seafood seafood, steak_house131 mByes
Pera mediterranean140 mCno
Pret A Manger sandwich160 mByes
Benjamin Prime steak_house182 mByes
Maki Maki Sushi sushi182 mCyes
Melangerie184 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Pershing Square in New York

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York4,27052%40%55.4%
Built with WordPress in New York66867%49%55.4%
Using OpenTable in New York15572%57%55.4%
Built with WordPress and using OpenTable in New York5166%39%55.4%

The best of Built with WordPress and using OpenTable in New York

Jane Doe A 95.4% · Pico De Gallo Bar & Kitchen A 90.8% · Ainslie Bowery A 87.7% · Tutto Apposto A 86.2% · Antalia B 81.5%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable; Ordering only through grubhub) the score would be about 100%: first of 4,270 in New York.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Assistants

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.

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Deep report 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.

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/pershingsquare.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/pershingsquare.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

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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The direct record

What agents get for Pershing Square

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/pershingsquare.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menupershingsquare.com/dinner/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+2122869600

Stable links that count: /go/pershingsquare.com/menu 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.

Transactable

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
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
OpenTable, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

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

OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Source. About OpenTable · all vendors.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno