The Direct Index
Report · Toronto · scanned 2026-10-19

Poppadum

poppadum.ca is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Poppadum directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-19. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

874 Yonge St, M4W 2J1, Toronto · +16478922907

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Poppadum's website. What Poppadum offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

70.8%

46 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Toronto and named 106 places. Poppadum wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Poppadum compares

Where it stands

1,108 of 3,381 in Toronto

Top 33% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: North of Brooklyn Pizzeria B, Pho Saigon B. Just below: Ragu Scratch Pasta B, Sequel Event Catering B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt38%yes

The top 10% are the 352 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%70.8%
Sites using Square 1,644 sites65%41%70.8%

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Utsav Indian Cuisine indian280 mByes
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Govinda's indian, fusion, bengali889 mCyes
Bombay Street Food indian1.2 kmDno
Colaba Junction indian1.3 kmAyes
Bhoj Indian Cuisine indian1.5 kmCno
Madras Curry indian1.6 kmAyes
Butter Chicken Factory indian1.6 kmAyes
Poopathy Mess indian1.6 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Poppadum in Toronto

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Toronto3,38153%33%70.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Toronto83265%45%70.8%
Sites using Square in Toronto2064%25%70.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in Toronto265%0%70.8%

The best of the sites using Square in Toronto

That Freakin Greek A 85.7% · Danny's Pizza Tavern B 76.9% · Booyah B 73.8% · Sushi Momo B 73.8% · La Baciata C 69.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 297th of 3,381 in Toronto, up from 1108th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is on another site +5 points

    The link goes to square.site, so that site gets the credit and the visits. How to fix it

  3. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows 416-968-2101, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +16478922907. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Toronto. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Person) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

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

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Poppadum",
  "url": "http://www.poppadum.ca/",
  "telephone": "+16478922907",
  "address": "874 Yonge St, M4W 2J1, Toronto",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.67247844,
    "longitude": -79.38780293
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order-poppadum.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Poppadum

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/poppadum.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/toronto/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder-poppadum.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Menuorder-poppadum.square.site/ externalfrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+16478922907

Stable links that count: /go/poppadum.ca/order, /go/poppadum.ca/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
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
Square
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsyes
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes