# Public Dining Room: Agent-Direct Score A (90.5%)

Site: https://publicdiningroom.com.au/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/publicdiningroom.com.au
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Public Dining Room is ready for agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Public Dining Room. It can read what Public Dining Room offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/reservations (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/a-la-carte
- Phone: +61 2 9968 4880

## What to fix first
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, ChatGPT-User.** (+6.2 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

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

```
# Public Dining Room

> restaurant in The Esplanade 2A, Sydney. Phone +61 2 9968 4880.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/reservations (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/a-la-carte

## Opening hours

Mo-Sa 12:00-15:00,18:00-21:00; Su 12:00-15:00

## About

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

## Already right
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.

## Where it stands
68 of 736 in Sydney. Top 9% 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% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 92% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Boathouse Balmoral Beach (B, 88 m, https://directindex.org/r/theboathousegroup.com.au); The Bathers' Pavilion (B, 586 m, https://directindex.org/r/batherspavilion.com.au); Burnt Orange (C, 719 m, https://directindex.org/r/burntorange.com.au); ONICE (B, 852 m, https://directindex.org/r/onice.com.au); Gunners Barracks (A, 1160 m, https://directindex.org/r/gunnersbarracks.com.au); Marilynas Famous Pizza (D, 2066 m, https://directindex.org/r/marilynasfamouspizzacremorne.com); Nilgiri's (C, 2162 m, https://directindex.org/r/nilgiris.com.au); Bosk (C, 2358 m, https://directindex.org/r/bosk.com.au); Tobikiri (F, 2765 m, https://directindex.org/r/tobikiri.com.au); Maisys (D, 2876 m, https://directindex.org/r/maisys24.com.au).

## 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.

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

## Businesses like Public Dining Room in Sydney

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Sydney | 736 | 60% | 43% | 90.5% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Sydney: 170 Grammi (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/170grammi.com.au); Bellevue Cottage (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bellevuecottage.com.au); Bellevue Woolloomooloo (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bellevuewoolloomooloo.com.au); Curry Lovers (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/curryloverswestmead.com.au); Delhi O Delhi (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/delhiodelhi.com.au).

With the fix above (robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, ChatGPT-User) the score would be about 100%: first of 736 in Sydney.

## The direct record
What agents get for Public Dining Room, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/publicdiningroom.com.au
- Book: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/reservations (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.publicdiningroom.com.au/a-la-carte (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Sa 12:00-15:00,18:00-21:00; Su 12:00-15:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +61 2 9968 4880
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/publicdiningroom.com.au/book, https://directindex.org/go/publicdiningroom.com.au/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): 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, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 18.8 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 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/publicdiningroom.com.au
- 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/publicdiningroom.com.au/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/publicdiningroom.com.au/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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=publicdiningroom.com.au&force=1