# Sierra Café: Agent-Direct Score F (27.7%)

Site: http://www.sierracafe.ca/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/sierracafe.ca
Scanned: 2026-10-19 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Sierra Café is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open Sierra Café's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://order.toasttab.com/online/sierra-cafe-6439-crowchild-trl-sw (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://sierracafe.ca/pages/menu_browse
- Phone: 4032423884

## What to fix first
- Languages: English, French

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2020.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Calgary, 73% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Sierra Café",
  "url": "http://www.sierracafe.ca/",
  "telephone": "4032423884",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.9969415,
    "longitude": -114.1182873
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://sierracafe.ca/pages/menu_browse",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/online/sierra-cafe-6439-crowchild-trl-sw",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
390 of 449 in Calgary cafes and bars. Top 87% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 26% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Gong Cha (D, 1394 m, https://directindex.org/r/gong-cha.com); Cafe du Parc (F, 1463 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafeduparc.ca); Barrow Coffee Roasters (F, 1831 m, https://directindex.org/r/barrowespresso.com); Wild Rose Brewery & Tap Room (F, 1985 m, https://directindex.org/r/wildrosebrewery.com); Railway Cafe (C, 2019 m, https://directindex.org/r/heritagepark.ca); Veranda at The Stables (C, 2249 m, https://directindex.org/r/verandayyc.com); The Garrison (B, 2256 m, https://directindex.org/r/garrisonpub.com); Good Heart Cafe (C, 2329 m, https://directindex.org/r/goodheartcafecalgary.com); Neighbour Coffee (B, 2686 m, https://directindex.org/r/nhbrcoffee.com); Point and Feather (C, 2841 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepointpub.com).

## What assistants answer
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Shopify 46% (24% A or B, 3402 sites); Sites using Toast 72% (57% A or B, 3168 sites); This site 27.7%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/sierracafe.ca/agent-view

## Businesses like Sierra Café in Calgary cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Calgary cafes and bars | 449 | 52% | 27% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Calgary cafes and bars | 31 | 39% | 10% | 27.7% |
| Sites using Toast in Calgary cafes and bars | 21 | 67% | 33% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Shopify and using Toast in Calgary cafes and bars | 2 | 37% | 0% | 27.7% |

The best of the sites using Toast in Calgary cafes and bars: The Rooftop YYC (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/therooftop.ca); Bar Chouette (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/barchouette.ca); Dairy Lane Cafe (B 83.8%, https://directindex.org/r/dairylanecafe.ca); The Comedy Cave (B 78.8%, https://directindex.org/r/comedycave.com); True Wild Distilling (B 78.8%, https://directindex.org/r/truewilddistilling.com).

With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 18th of 449 in Calgary cafes and bars, up from 390th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Sierra Café, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/sierracafe.ca
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/sierra-cafe-6439-crowchild-trl-sw (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://sierracafe.ca/pages/menu_browse (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: 4032423884
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/sierracafe.ca/order, https://directindex.org/go/sierracafe.ca/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 (Toast): yes
- Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/sierracafe.ca/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/sierracafe.ca/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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=sierracafe.ca&force=1