# Ban Ban Shop: Agent-Direct Score D (52.3%) Site: https://www.thebanbanshop.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebanbanshop.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Ban Ban Shop is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Ban Ban Shop's website. What Ban Ban Shop offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Sauce. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://www.getsauce.com/order/ban-ban-shop/menu (through sauce acting for the business) - Phone: +19172612231 - Address: 2911 Broadway, 10025-7823, New York ## Nearby, also direct Places near Ban Ban Shop that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Wu + Nussbaum (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/wunussbaum.com - Ferris Booth Commons (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/columbia.edu - Junzi Kitchen (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/junzi.kitchen - Le Monde (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/lemondenyc.com - Il Cibreo (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/camponyc.com ## What to fix first - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Menu or price list is an image.** (+6 points) Agents can't read it. Publish it as text. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Ban Ban Shop > local business in 2911 Broadway, 10025-7823, New York, New York. Phone +19172612231. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://www.getsauce.com/order/ban-ban-shop/menu (through sauce acting for the business) - Menu: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63fe313050a6e34952869bc3/643846380f2d65d640b5db46_2023.03.22_Ban%20Ban%20Menu%20Final%20resized.jpg ## About - Website: https://www.thebanbanshop.com - 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 main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Ordering through sauce on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 6054 of 11180 in New York. Top 54% 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% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places in the index: Amir's Grill (F, 36 m, https://directindex.org/r/amirsnyc.com); Wu + Nussbaum (B, 67 m, https://directindex.org/r/wunussbaum.com); Deluxe (F, 71 m, https://directindex.org/r/deluxenyc.com); Ferris Booth Commons (C, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/columbia.edu); Unicafé (C, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/unicafe.com.br); Community Food & Juice (F, 85 m, https://directindex.org/r/communityrestaurant.com); Sweetgreen (F, 94 m, https://directindex.org/r/sweetgreen.com); Junzi Kitchen (A, 98 m, https://directindex.org/r/junzi.kitchen); Le Monde (B, 107 m, https://directindex.org/r/lemondenyc.com); Il Cibreo (D, 113 m, https://directindex.org/r/camponyc.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. Ban Ban Shop wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites using Sauce 73% (60% A or B, 340 sites); This site 52.3%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thebanbanshop.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Ban Ban Shop in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11180 | 52% | 34% | 52.3% | | Sites using Sauce in New York | 206 | 72% | 58% | 52.3% | The best of the sites using Sauce in New York: Casa Louie (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/casalouienyc.com); Gyro City (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/gyrocitynyc.com); Meetnmeatnyc (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/meetandmeatbk.com); Pastasole (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pastasoleny.com); Pizza by Lucilles (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pizzabylucilles.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is an image; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 1209th of 11,180 in New York, up from 6054th. ## The direct record What agents get for Ban Ban Shop, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebanbanshop.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://www.getsauce.com/order/ban-ban-shop/menu (vendor on own site: Sauce; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Menu: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63fe313050a6e34952869bc3/643846380f2d65d640b5db46_2023.03.22_Ban%20Ban%20Menu%20Final%20resized.jpg (image; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +19172612231 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebanbanshop.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/thebanbanshop.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 - Vendor terms for agents, Sauce: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 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/thebanbanshop.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: yes - 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 Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thebanbanshop.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/thebanbanshop.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=thebanbanshop.com&force=1