The Direct Index
Report · New Orleans · scanned 2026-11-13

The Daily Beet

thedailybeetnola.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach The Daily Beet directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 08:00–20:00

3300 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70115 · +1 504-766-0377

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Prices: 46 prices on the site, the middle one $9.45

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Daily Beet 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 The Daily Beet's website. It can read what The Daily Beet offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

76.3%

61 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Action test, 2026-11-13: partial, there's a path, but an agent would have trouble with it. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.

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

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

46 prices on the landing page, the middle one $9.45.

In New Orleans, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $12.00.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today" and "Something healthy like bowls or salads delivered to my office at lunch" in New Orleans, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in New Orleans and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-13
Something healthy like bowls or salads delivered to my office at lunch.ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-11-13

Every place named in New Orleans, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Something healthy like bowls or salads delivered to my office at lunch.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Daily Beet compares

Where it stands

201 of 827 in New Orleans

Top 24% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: brennans B, Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro B. Just below: The Grill Room at Windsor Court B, Lanna Thai Cuisine B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 259,325 sites55%24%76.3%
Sites using Square 5,920 sites65%42%76.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
El Paso Mexican Grill mexican30 mCyes
Slim Goodies Diner50 mAyes
Lanna Thai Cuisine thai50 mByes
Boil Seafood House92 mCyes
Cho Thai thai98 mCyes
Rum House189 mDno
Red Dog Diner201 mCyes
Atchafalaya217 mDno
Empanola229 mDyes
Aroma Indian Cuisine indian250 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Daily Beet in New Orleans

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans82758%38%76.3%
Sites built with WordPress in New Orleans18363%39%76.3%
Sites using Square in New Orleans1574%47%76.3%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in New Orleans376%67%76.3%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 80%. That would be 163rd of 827 in New Orleans, up from 201st.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

  2. 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 Orleans. 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.
  • Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /menus: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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