# The Best Sandwich Place: Agent-Direct Score D (50.8%) Site: http://www.thebestsandwichplace.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebestsandwichplace.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.) The Best Sandwich Place is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Best Sandwich Place's website. What The Best Sandwich Place offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through tbsplst.cloveronline.com. ## Direct links - Menu: https://tbsp919.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/TBSP_handheld+menus_2025+(002)+4-17-2025.pdf - Phone: +12022962988 - Address: 919 18th St NW Ste 150, 20006, Washington ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Best Sandwich Place that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Public Interest (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/publicinterestdc.com - LA Cafe (90 m): https://directindex.org/r/laprimacatering.com - Taberna del Alabardero (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/alabardero.com - Barbouzard (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/barbouzard.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 - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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. ``` # The Best Sandwich Place > local business in 919 18th St NW Ste 150, 20006, Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +12022962988. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://tbsp919.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/TBSP_handheld+menus_2025+(002)+4-17-2025.pdf ## About - Website: http://www.thebestsandwichplace.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. ## Where it stands Not ranked yet in Washington, DC. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 19% | no | Nearest places in the index: Deus Ex Machina (C, 18 m, https://directindex.org/r/deuscustoms.com); Public Interest (A, 65 m, https://directindex.org/r/publicinterestdc.com); LA Cafe (B, 85 m, https://directindex.org/r/laprimacatering.com); Cafe Asia (F, 95 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafeasia.com); Shawarma District (F, 97 m, https://directindex.org/r/shawarmadistrict.com); Taberna del Alabardero (A, 101 m, https://directindex.org/r/alabardero.com); Barbouzard (B, 106 m, https://directindex.org/r/barbouzard.com); District Seafood (F, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/gulfseafood.org); Wicked Waffle (F, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/wickedwaffle.com); Ranch 1 (D, 121 m, https://directindex.org/r/ranchone.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 22 everyday questions about Washington, DC and named 140 places. The Best Sandwich Place wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/washington/recommended See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thebestsandwichplace.com/agent-view ## The direct record What agents get for The Best Sandwich Place, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebestsandwichplace.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://tbsp919.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/TBSP_handheld+menus_2025+(002)+4-17-2025.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +12022962988 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebestsandwichplace.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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 4 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 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/thebestsandwichplace.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/thebestsandwichplace.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/thebestsandwichplace.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thebestsandwichplace.com&force=1