# Rick's Cafe Americain: Agent-Direct Score C (60%)

Site: https://rickscafe.co.za/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/rickscafe.co.za
Scanned: 2026-10-17 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Rick's Cafe Americain is partly visible to agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Rick's Cafe Americain. It can read what Rick's Cafe Americain offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through dineplan.com.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://rickscafe.co.za/menus
- Phone: +27 21 424 1100

## What to fix first

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2005.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **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

## 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Rick's Cafe Americain",
  "url": "https://rickscafe.co.za/",
  "telephone": "+27 21 424 1100",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Kloof Street 2",
    "addressLocality": "Cape Town"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -33.9314885,
    "longitude": 18.4094247
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Sa 11:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "burger",
    "american",
    "international",
    "moroccan"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://rickscafe.co.za/menus"
}
</script>
```

## 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.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
63 of 134 in Cape Town. Top 47% 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 | 86% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 86% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 43% | yes |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Society Bistro (F, 429 m, https://directindex.org/r/societi.co.za); Hudsons - The Burger Joint (Kloof) (C, 486 m, https://directindex.org/r/theburgerjoint.co.za); The Fussy Vegan (B, 605 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefussyvegan.co.za); The Electric (C, 1401 m, https://directindex.org/r/the-electric.com); Wimpy (C, 1618 m, https://directindex.org/r/uk.com); NV-80 (D, 2696 m, https://directindex.org/r/nv-80.co.za); Kleinsky's (F, 2761 m, https://directindex.org/r/kleinskys.co.za); Mitchell's Scottish Ale House Victoria & Alfred Waterfront (A, 3071 m, https://directindex.org/r/mitchellsalehouse.co.za); Ferrymans Tavern (A, 3079 m, https://directindex.org/r/ferrymans.co.za); The Alba Restaurant Boat (B, 3096 m, https://directindex.org/r/thealba.co.za).

## 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.

Asked 12 everyday questions about Cape Town, the assistants named 65 places; Rick's Cafe Americain was not among them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/cape-town/recommended


Against its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 41% (14% A or B, 1674 sites); This site 60%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/rickscafe.co.za/agent-view

## Businesses like Rick's Cafe Americain in Cape Town

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town | 134 | 53% | 23% | 60% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Cape Town | 1 | 60% | 0% | 60% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Cape Town: Ferrymans Tavern (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/ferrymans.co.za); Fyn Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fynrestaurant.com); Woodlands Eatery (A 94.9%, https://directindex.org/r/thewoodlandseatery.com); Therapy (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/therapyrestaurant.co.za); Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/dunesrestaurant.co.za).

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 95.4%: 3rd of 134 in Cape Town, up from 63rd.

## The direct record
What agents get for Rick's Cafe Americain, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/rickscafe.co.za
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://rickscafe.co.za/menus (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-23:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +27 21 424 1100
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/rickscafe.co.za/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 | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 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/rickscafe.co.za
- 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: yes
- 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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/rickscafe.co.za/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/rickscafe.co.za/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=rickscafe.co.za&force=1