The Common
thecommonbrooklyn.com is ready for agents.
Order directly: getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=thecommonbr through bentobox acting for the business · Menu: www.thecommonbrooklyn.com/bay-ridge-menu/
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57 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.
What to fix first
- Booking only through resy +5 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
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. 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 (FoodEstablishment) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Ordering through bentobox on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on bentobox is in the guides.
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Common > cafe or coffee shop (eclectic, brunch) in 4th Avenue 548 11215, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-718-971-9580. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=thecommonbrooklyn.com (through bentobox acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.thecommonbrooklyn.com/bay-ridge-menu/ ## About - Website: https://www.thecommonbrooklyn.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
119 of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars
Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Tavern29 A, Teapulse A. Just below: The Dead Poet A, The Empire Rooftop A.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | yes |
| 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 | 23% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 9% | no |
The top tenth is the 182 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 862 sites | 84% | 96% | 87.7% |
| Sites using Resy 548 sites | 69% | 48% | 87.7% |
| Sites using BentoBox 322 sites | 83% | 93% | 87.7% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| 390 Social coffee_shop, vietnamese, sandwich, charcuterie, eclectic | 718 m | D | no |
| LoFi snack, mediterranean, brunch | 1.1 km | B | yes |
| Bar Louise american, eclectic | 1.2 km | D | no |
| Abilene american, mexican, brunch | 1.4 km | A | yes |
| Evalyn's Tap House northern_european, pub, brunch | 1.7 km | B | yes |
| Winner in the Park breakfast, sandwich, eclectic | 1.7 km | B | yes |
| Bee's Knees Provisions brunch, sandwich, charcuterie, seafood | 2.0 km | A | yes |
| Clover Club american, brunch, snack | 2.0 km | B | yes |
| Kasbah Bakery pastry, sandwich, brunch | 2.1 km | F | no |
| Henry Public pub, brunch | 2.6 km | A | yes |
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 | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| 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 |
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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Show the score
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Own this business?
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