The Direct Index
Report · New York · scanned 2026-10-23

Southern Chick

southernchicknyc.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Southern Chick directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Report a mistake

208 E 58th St, 10022, New York · (212) 308-9401

Prices: 68 prices on the site, the middle one $11.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Southern Chick that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Southern Chick's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to Grubhub, a marketplace.

43.1%

28 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

68 prices on the landing page, the middle one $11.00.

In New York, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $14.00.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Southern Chick wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Southern Chick compares

Where it stands

6,890 of 11,000 in New York

Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sidewalk Tacos D, Simit Sarayı D. Just below: Sushi Jin D, Sushi Yuki D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours59%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 1114 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 29,454 sites61%42%43.1%
Sites using Grubhub 458 sites67%53%43.1%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
International Burgers burger, mexican, japanese, american, chicken1.0 kmFyes
Yankee Doodle Dandy's chicken1.1 kmFno
International Chicken Company chicken, wings, burger1.1 kmAyes
580 Fifth Avenue :: The World Diamond Tower chicken1.1 kmFno
Chicken Guy! chicken1.7 kmByes
Crispy Chick chicken1.7 kmFno
Chirping Chicken chicken1.9 kmFno
Church's Chicken chicken1.9 kmFno
Huli Huli Hawaiian Rotisserie chicken2.0 kmDyes
375° Chicken 'n Fries chicken2.1 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Southern Chick in New York

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New York11,00052%34%43.1%
Sites built with Squarespace in New York1,23770%52%43.1%
Sites using Grubhub in New York20268%56%43.1%
Sites built with Squarespace and using Grubhub in New York3866%39%43.1%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Grubhub in New York

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After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering only through grubhub; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 336th of 11,000 in New York, up from 6890th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through grubhub +12 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. No menu or price list found +7 points

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

  4. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • 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. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.grubhub.com/legal/terms-of-use. 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.

Builder: squarespace

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

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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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Southern Chick",
  "url": "http://www.southernchicknyc.com",
  "telephone": "(212) 308-9401",
  "address": "208 E 58th St, 10022, New York",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.76047881598721,
    "longitude": -73.96648221213754
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Southern Chick

> local business (chicken) in 208 E 58th St, 10022, New York, New York. Phone (212) 308-9401.

## About

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

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/southernchicknyc.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/southernchicknyc.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Southern Chick

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-23 found no booking or ordering link on southernchicknyc.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/southernchicknyc.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone(212) 308-9401

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

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
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
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.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno