# Tasty Dumpling: Agent-Direct Score B (76.9%)

Site: http://www.tastebudskitchen.com/nyc
Report: https://directindex.org/r/tastebudskitchen.com
Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Tasty Dumpling is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Tasty Dumpling's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through FareHarbor.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/api/v1/ (through fareharbor acting for the business)
- Phone: (718) 633-8008
- Address: 5216 8th Ave, 11220, Brooklyn
- Prices: 5 prices on the site, the middle one $99.00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Tasty Dumpling that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Simon's BBQ (20 m): https://directindex.org/r/bigtickets.com
- Xun Yu Si Kao (360 m): https://directindex.org/r/xunyusikaonyc.com
- Fat Chen (530 m): https://directindex.org/r/fatchentogo.com

## What to fix first
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2024.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In New York, 76% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.
- **5 prices on the landing page, the middle one $99.00.** In New York, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $14.00.

## 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.
- **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Booking through fareharbor on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
2416 of 11166 in New York. Top 22% 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 | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | yes |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Simon's BBQ (C, 23 m, https://directindex.org/r/bigtickets.com); Hot Space Brooklyn (F, 119 m, https://directindex.org/r/hotspaceusa.com); Lucky Vegetarian (D, 123 m, https://directindex.org/r/luckyvege.com); City Cafe (F, 296 m, https://directindex.org/r/citycafeny.com); Golden Chop Sticks Inc (F, 320 m, https://directindex.org/r/goldenchopsticks.biz); Xun Yu Si Kao (F, 359 m, https://directindex.org/r/xunyusikaonyc.com); Fire Leopard BBQ (F, 364 m, https://directindex.org/r/qmenu.us); Jian Bao (D, 474 m, https://directindex.org/r/zhoujianlun.com); Mr. Q's (F, 494 m, https://directindex.org/r/mrqs.com); Fat Chen (A, 533 m, https://directindex.org/r/fatchentogo.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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Tasty Dumpling wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using FareHarbor 67% (48% A or B, 914 sites); This site 76.9%.

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

## Businesses like Tasty Dumpling in New York

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11166 | 52% | 34% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with WordPress in New York | 1841 | 61% | 37% | 76.9% |
| Sites using FareHarbor in New York | 10 | 63% | 30% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using FareHarbor in New York | 6 | 64% | 33% | 76.9% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using FareHarbor in New York: Greenwich Village Food Tour (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/foodsofny.com); Scott's Pizza Tours (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/scottspizzatours.com); A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour (C 62.6%, https://directindex.org/r/asliceofbrooklyn.com); Pizza a Casa - Pizza School (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/pizzaschool.com); Breezy Point Surf Club (D 42%, https://directindex.org/r/nybreezypoint.com).

With the fix above (No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 1209th of 11,166 in New York, up from 2416th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Tasty Dumpling, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/tastebudskitchen.com
- Book: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/api/v1/ (vendor on own site: FareHarbor; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: (718) 633-8008
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/tastebudskitchen.com/book

## 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
- Vendor terms for agents, FareHarbor: Not stated. FareHarbor's customer terms (1 September 2025), section 5.1, bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the service for a commercial purpose without written permission; whether an assistant booking for a traveller counts as commercial is not stated; the external API is for affiliates and software partners. Read 2026-10-15: https://marketing.fareharbor.com/legal/tos-customers/

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

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/tastebudskitchen.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/tastebudskitchen.com/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/tastebudskitchen.com/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=tastebudskitchen.com&force=1