# The Family Village Café: Agent-Direct Score C (62.3%)

Site: https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za
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 Family Village Café is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Family Village Café's website. What The Family Village Café offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/images/The%20Family%20Village%20Caf%C3%A9-NEWMenu_2025.pdf
- Phone: +27743182787
- Address: 68 Andries Pretorius St, 7130, Somerset West

## Nearby, also direct
Places near The Family Village Café that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Ooskus Somerset West (230 m): https://directindex.org/r/ooskussomersetwest.co.za
- The Farmhouse Somerset West (290 m): https://directindex.org/r/thefarmhouse.co.za
- The Smokey Brisket (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/smokeybrisket.co.za

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **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
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ChatGPT-User.** (+2.5 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Family Village Café",
  "url": "https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/",
  "telephone": "+27743182787",
  "address": "68 Andries Pretorius St, 7130, Somerset West",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -34.08199677,
    "longitude": 18.84724884
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/images/The%20Family%20Village%20Caf%C3%A9-NEWMenu_2025.pdf"
}
</script>
```

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# The Family Village Café

> restaurant in 68 Andries Pretorius St, 7130, Somerset West, Cape Town. Phone +27743182787.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/images/The%20Family%20Village%20Caf%C3%A9-NEWMenu_2025.pdf

## About

- Website: https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone

## Where it stands
Not ranked yet in Cape Town.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 91% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 38% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 42% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Chef Wu (F, 225 m, https://directindex.org/r/chefwu.co.za); Ooskus Somerset West (A, 226 m, https://directindex.org/r/ooskussomersetwest.co.za); The Farmhouse Somerset West (A, 292 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefarmhouse.co.za); Royal Restaurant (F, 309 m, https://directindex.org/r/royalrestaurant.co.za); Henri's Restaurant & Wine Bar (D, 318 m, https://directindex.org/r/henrisrestaurant.co.za); Fiore Restaurant and Garden Centre (C, 330 m, https://directindex.org/r/fioregardencentre.com); The Smokey Brisket (A, 332 m, https://directindex.org/r/smokeybrisket.co.za); Boeretroos & Barcode (D, 342 m, https://directindex.org/r/dienshospitality.co.za); Giuseppe's Pizzeria (D, 347 m, https://directindex.org/r/gpizza.co.za); Blue Waters Seafood and Sushi Restaurant (D, 381 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebluewater.co.za).

## 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 Cape Town and named 98 places. The Family Village Café wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/cape-town/recommended


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/agent-view

## The direct record
What agents get for The Family Village Café, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/images/The%20Family%20Village%20Caf%C3%A9-NEWMenu_2025.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +27743182787
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/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 | 22.5 | 25 |
| Readable | 16 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 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/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za
- 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: 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: yes
- 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/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/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/thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za/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=thefamilyvillagecafe.co.za&force=1