Softbite
softbite.us is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Menu: www.softbite.us/menu
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 65% → 69%
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45 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14: fixed No booking or ordering path at all. new Ordering only through a marketplace.
What to fix first
- Ordering only through grubhub +12 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
- Structured data is incomplete +5 points
Missing: telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York cafes and bars. 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
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Grubhub works with agents through its partners Grubhub's terms of use (17 December 2024) bar access with any robot, spider, crawler or automated process; since June 2026 Alexa+ users can browse, build an order and check out through Grubhub by voice. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.grubhub.com/legal/terms-of-use. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: wix · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /menu: ordering via grubhub, ordering via ubereats
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wix is in the guides.
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Structured data (JSON-LD)
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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
"name": "Softbite",
"url": "https://www.softbite.us/",
"telephone": "+1 347-612-4136",
"email": "hello@softbite.us",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Crescent Street 42-60",
"postalCode": "11101"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 40.7490625,
"longitude": -73.942171
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Th 10:00-21:00; Fr-Su 09:00-21:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "10:00",
"closes": "21:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday",
"Saturday",
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "09:00",
"closes": "21:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"japanese"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.softbite.us/menu"
}
</script>
How Softbite compares
500 of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars
Top 31% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sahola Cofee Shop C, Seeyamañana C. Just below: Soho Room C, Ted's Corner Tavern C.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 99% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 24% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 11% | yes |
The top tenth is the 162 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Wix 3,255 sites | 58% | 35% | 69.2% |
| Sites using Grubhub 150 sites | 66% | 44% | 69.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Beast Next Door Cafe & Bar gastropub | 114 m | A | yes |
| Teazzi Tea Shop bubble_tea | 128 m | D | no |
| Lately Café | 278 m | F | no |
| Pumpernickel Bagel & Delicatessan bagel | 286 m | D | no |
| Big Alice Brewing | 783 m | C | no |
| Fifth Hammer Brewing Company | 839 m | A | yes |
| Petite Maman | 886 m | C | yes |
| Overflow Coffee | 994 m | C | no |
| Griddle Cafe & Deli | 1.0 km | B | yes |
| Little Chef Little Café | 1.1 km | A | yes |
Businesses like Softbite in New York cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in New York cafes and bars | 1,612 | 46% | 30% | 69.2% |
| Built with Wix in New York cafes and bars | 24 | 66% | 33% | 69.2% |
| Using Grubhub in New York cafes and bars | 27 | 68% | 52% | 69.2% |
| Built with Wix and using Grubhub in New York cafes and bars | 1 | 69% | 0% | 69.2% |
The best of Using Grubhub in New York cafes and bars
La Cava Wine Bar A 90.8% · Maggie's Place A 85% · Paneantico B 81.5% · Corner Bistro East B 76.9% · Crispy Heaven Bakery B 76.9%
The climb
With the two fixes above (Ordering only through grubhub; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 8th of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars, up from 500th.
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 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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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/softbite.us"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/softbite.us.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Softbite
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/softbite.us, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.softbite.us/menu html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Th 10:00-21:00; Fr-Su 09:00-21:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1 347-612-4136 |
Stable links that count: /go/softbite.us/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.
| UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol | yes |
| 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 |
| Vendor terms for agents Grubhub, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Grubhub's terms of use (17 December 2024) bar access with any robot, spider, crawler or automated process; since June 2026 Alexa+ users can browse, build an order and check out through Grubhub by voice. Source. About Grubhub · all vendors.
Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu: ordering via grubhub, ordering via ubereats.
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.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |