# Shakespeare and Company Café: Agent-Direct Score F (34.3%) Site: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/page/26/cafe Report: https://directindex.org/r/shakespeareandcompany.com Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) Shakespeare and Company Café is largely invisible to agents. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/media/general/CAFE-MENU-2025-ENG-1.pdf ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). 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 - **No booking or ordering path at all.** (+15 points) Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Shakespeare and Company Café > cafe or coffee shop in Rue de la Bûcherie 35, Paris cafes and bars. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/media/general/CAFE-MENU-2025-ENG-1.pdf ## Opening hours Mo-Su 09:00-19:00 ## About - Website: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/page/26/cafe - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then) - Fixed: nothing - New: nothing ## Where it stands 654 of 806 in Paris cafes and bars. Top 81% 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 | 99% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 91% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 43% | no | Nearest places in the index: Aux Trois Mailletz (F, 61 m, https://directindex.org/r/lestroismailletz.fr); Caveau des Oubliettes (C, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/caveau-des-oubliettes.com); Odette (C, 77 m, https://directindex.org/r/odette-paris.com); Café Panis (B, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafepanis.com); RoadHouse (D, 168 m, https://directindex.org/r/roadhouse.paris); Le Privé (D, 174 m, https://directindex.org/r/lepriveparis.com); Café Gisèle (A, 227 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafe-gisele.com); The Long Hop (A, 261 m, https://directindex.org/r/the-long-hop.com); Le Lutèce (B, 273 m, https://directindex.org/r/leluteceparis.fr); La Dame de Paris (C, 286 m, https://directindex.org/r/ladamedeparis.fr). ## 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. Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 34%, 2026-10-15 34%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/shakespeareandcompany.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Shakespeare and Company Café in Paris cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in Paris cafes and bars | 806 | 54% | 37% | 34.3% | The best of Same kind in Paris cafes and bars: 5 Pailles (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/5pailles.com); Brasserie Valma (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/brasserie-valma.fr); Cafe Français (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/cafe-francais.fr); Café Gisèle (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/cafe-gisele.com); La Belle Équipe (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/labelleequipecharonne.fr). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering path at all; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 90.8%: 32nd of 806 in Paris cafes and bars, up from 654th. ## The direct record What agents get for Shakespeare and Company Café, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/shakespeareandcompany.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/media/general/CAFE-MENU-2025-ENG-1.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-19:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/shakespeareandcompany.com/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 | 18.3 | 25 | | Readable | 4 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/shakespeareandcompany.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - 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: no Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/shakespeareandcompany.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=shakespeareandcompany.com&force=1