Salt+Charcoal

What to fix first

1. No menu or price list found +7 points

   Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

2. Structured data is incomplete +2 points

   Missing: telephone. How to fix it

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.
• Structured data present (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
• Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
• Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

Builder: squarespace · 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 squarespace 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": "Salt+Charcoal",
  "url": "https://www.saltandcharcoal.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-718-782-2087",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Grand Street 171",
    "postalCode": "11249",
    "addressLocality": "Brooklyn"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7146299,
    "longitude": -73.9613291
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 17:30-24:00, Sa-Su 12:00-15:30,17:30-24:00",
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese",
    "steak house"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.saltandcharcoal.com/reservations-resy",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.saltandcharcoal.com/reservations-resy",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.online/store/salt-+-charcoal-brooklyn-178419/?hideModal=true&pickup=true&rwg_token=ACgRB3dkoVAZHn-SkcsvM0qGfAM8_ubCnb3-HMehDOMNoU0povZUxTDX5QgH58batdXIgs8e4ihkb9a9qZduzVhL4SHjIrtFPA==&utm_source=gfo",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt Copy

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

# Salt+Charcoal

> restaurant (japanese, steak house) in Grand Street 171 11249 Brooklyn, New York. Phone +1-718-782-2087.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.saltandcharcoal.com/reservations-resy (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://order.online/store/salt-+-charcoal-brooklyn-178419/?hideModal=true&pickup=true&rwg_token=ACgRB3dkoVAZHn-SkcsvM0qGfAM8_ubCnb3-HMehDOMNoU0povZUxTDX5QgH58batdXIgs8e4ihkb9a9qZduzVhL4SHjIrtFPA==&utm_source=gfo (through doordash_storefront acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 17:30-24:00, Sa-Su 12:00-15:30,17:30-24:00

## About

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

945 of 4,270 in New York

Top 22% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pisticci B, Pranakhon B. Just below: San Matteo Pizzeria e Cucina B, Sawa B.

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

Against its peers

Nearest places with a similar menu

Businesses like Salt+Charcoal in New York

The best of Built with Squarespace and using DoorDash Storefront in New York

Bhatti A 93.8% · Jora A 92.3% · SANUKI UDON A 92.3% · Grand Banks A 89.2% · Empanada Mama A 87.7%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 74th of 4,270 in New York, up from 945th.

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 Salt+Charcoal

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

Stable links that count: /go/saltandcharcoal.com/book, /go/saltandcharcoal.com/order 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.

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.

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.

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

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