The Halal Zone
thehalalzone.org is mostly ready for agents.
Order directly: order.toasttab.com/online/the-halal-zone-400-n-broad-st-eexh through toast acting for the business
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
50 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
thing 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
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. 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 (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
- Ordering through toast on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- Toast lets agents act only through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner cannot finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: godaddy · Front: cloudflare
1,135 of 4,270 in New York
Top 27% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Strange Delight B, Take Care B. Just below: The Handpulled Noodle B, Titi's B.
| What the top tenth 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 | 99% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | yes |
The top tenth is the 433 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 285 sites | 54% | 23% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Toast 1,884 sites | 74% | 63% | 76.9% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punta Cana Restaurant | 52 m | B | yes |
| Bull Horns Burger + Grill burger, grill | 350 m | C | yes |
| Brisas Bakery & Restaurant latin_american, colombian, bakery, coffee_shop | 402 m | D | no |
| NOAH Osteria italian | 484 m | F | no |
| Sakura Japan japanese | 1.2 km | A | yes |
| Jalapeño de Fuego mexican | 1.5 km | F | no |
| & Pizza pizza | 2.0 km | A | yes |
| Noches de Colombia caribbean | 2.9 km | A | yes |
| Del Porto | 3.5 km | B | yes |
| Ruby Tuesday american | 3.5 km | B | yes |
Businesses like The Halal Zone in New York
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in New York | 4,270 | 52% | 40% | 76.9% |
| Built with GoDaddy Website Builder in New York | 51 | 63% | 41% | 76.9% |
| Using Toast in New York | 324 | 77% | 69% | 76.9% |
| Built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using Toast in New York | 7 | 82% | 100% | 76.9% |
The best of Built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using Toast in New York
DelMonico Steal & Beyond A 87.7% · Tortelli A 87.7% · Retro Polish Restaurant and Wine Bar A 86.2% · 44 & X B 83.1% · Yummy Thai B 75.4%
The climb
With the fix above (No menu or price list found) the score would be about 87.7%: 471st of 4,270 in New York, up from 1135th.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What agents get for The Halal Zone
The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/thehalalzone.org, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | order.toasttab.com/online/the-halal-zone-400-n-broad-st-eexh vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Su 14:00-23:00; Mo-Sa 11:00-02:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1-908-355-6229 |
Stable links that count: /go/thehalalzone.org/order answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.
| UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents Toast, read 2026-10-15 | Partners only |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Source. About Toast · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
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 | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| 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.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thehalalzone.org"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thehalalzone.org.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.