# The Malt House: Agent-Direct Score C (60%) Site: https://www.themalthousevillage.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/themalthousevillage.com Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) The Malt House is partly visible to agents. ## Direct links - Menu: https://themalthousevillage.com/new-york-greenwich-village-the-malt-house-food-menu - Phone: +1-212-228-7713 ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Malt House > bar or pub (american) in Thompson Street 206, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-212-228-7713. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://themalthousevillage.com/new-york-greenwich-village-the-malt-house-food-menu ## Opening hours Mo-Fr 11:30-04:00; Sa, Su 10:30-04:00 ## About - Website: https://www.themalthousevillage.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 key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. ## Where it stands 685 of 1612 in New York cafes and bars. Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth 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 | 96% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 99% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 24% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 11% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Daily Provisions (B, 375 m, https://directindex.org/r/dailyprovisions.co); White Oak Tavern (A, 442 m, https://directindex.org/r/whiteoakny.com); Coopers Craft & Kitchen (A, 883 m, https://directindex.org/r/coopersnyc.com); The Penny Farthing (B, 1077 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepennyfarthingnyc.com); Little Rebel (D, 1231 m, https://directindex.org/r/littlerebelnyc.com); Russ & Daughters Cafe (D, 1293 m, https://directindex.org/r/russanddaughterscafe.com); Society Billiards + Bar (D, 1484 m, https://directindex.org/r/societybilliards.com); Bathtub Gin (A, 1694 m, https://directindex.org/r/bathtubginnyc.com); Seven Sins (B, 1744 m, https://directindex.org/r/sevensinsnyc.com); 230 Fifth (B, 1949 m, https://directindex.org/r/230-fifth.com). ## What assistants answer 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. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/themalthousevillage.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Malt House in New York cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in New York cafes and bars | 1612 | 46% | 30% | 60% | The best of Same kind in New York cafes and bars: Analogue (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/analoguenyc.com); Sandwell (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/getsandwell.com); The Winslow (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/thewinslownyc.com); Nurse Bettie (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/nursebettie.com); Someday (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/somedaybarnyc.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 95.4%: 8th of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars, up from 685th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Malt House, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/themalthousevillage.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://themalthousevillage.com/new-york-greenwich-village-the-malt-house-food-menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Mo-Fr 11:30-04:00; Sa, Su 10:30-04:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-212-228-7713 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/themalthousevillage.com/menu - Agents and people followed 1 direct link to this business this month (1 by AI agents). ## 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): 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 Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 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/themalthousevillage.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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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: 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 Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/themalthousevillage.com/deep. 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. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=themalthousevillage.com&force=1