Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar

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 resy +5 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. 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

• 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.
• Ordering through square on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

What to paste

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

Structured data (JSON-LD) Copy

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": "Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar",
  "url": "https://www.russiansamovar.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-212-757-0168",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West 52nd Street 256"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7631875,
    "longitude": -73.9847037
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo 17:00-02:00; Tu-Th 12:00-02:00; Fr-Su 12:00-04:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "04:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "russian"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://russiansamovar.com/new-york-theater-district-russian-samovar-food-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://squareup.com/gift/1PK3GP185FFDB/order",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt Copy

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

# Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar

> restaurant (russian) in West 52nd Street 256, New York. Phone +1-212-757-0168.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://squareup.com/gift/1PK3GP185FFDB/order (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://russiansamovar.com/new-york-theater-district-russian-samovar-food-menu

## Opening hours

Mo 17:00-02:00; Tu-Th 12:00-02:00; Fr-Su 12:00-04:00

## About

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

1,915 of 4,270 in New York

Top 45% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Riverpark C, Rucola C. Just below: Russian Tea Room C, Sabor de Columbia C.

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

Against its peers

Nearest places in the index

Businesses like Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar in New York

The best of Using Resy in New York

Verde A 95.4% · Barrio Chino A 93.8% · Concrete A 93.8% · Beyond Sushi - Vegan Restaurant A 92.3% · Soho Diner A 92.3%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through resy) the score would be about 95.4%: 74th of 4,270 in New York, up from 1915th.

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

What agents get for Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar

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

Stable links that count: /go/russiansamovar.com/order, /go/russiansamovar.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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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Show the score

Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

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

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