The Pershing Café
thepershing.com is mostly ready for agents.
Book directly: thepershing.com/calendar/ on the business's own site · Menu: thepershing.com/house-menus/
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 62% → 85%
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55 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.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (C then): fixed No booking or ordering path at all.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Austin 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 (Organization) but without address, phone or hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: wordpress · 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 wordpress is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
"name": "The Pershing Café",
"url": "https://thepershing.com/pershing-cafe/",
"telephone": "+17372104655",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "E 5th St 2501",
"postalCode": "78702",
"addressLocality": "Austin"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 30.2576822,
"longitude": -97.7149778
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Su 07:00-20:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [],
"opens": "07:00",
"closes": "20:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"pastry"
],
"acceptsReservations": "https://thepershing.com/calendar/",
"hasMenu": "https://thepershing.com/house-menus/",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://thepershing.com/calendar/",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
}
]
}
</script>
21 of 240 in Austin cafes and bars
Top 9% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Dutch Bros. Coffee A, Workhorse Bar A. Just below: OPA! Greek Cafe B, Sa-Tén @ Canopy B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 92% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 40% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 32% | yes |
The top tenth is the 25 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites | 57% | 26% | 84.6% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercado Sin Nombre mexican | 361 m | B | no |
| Four Five Six | 445 m | C | yes |
| Strangelove | 453 m | B | yes |
| Murray’s Tavern american | 545 m | A | yes |
| Desnudo Coffee coffee_shop | 609 m | B | yes |
| Terrazzo Tea bubble_tea | 742 m | D | yes |
| Kalimotxo | 869 m | B | yes |
| West China Tea House teahouse | 954 m | C | yes |
| daydreamer | 970 m | C | no |
| Figure 8 Coffee Purveyors | 1.1 km | D | no |
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 | yes |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | yes |
| 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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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thepershing.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thepershing.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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