# Thyme & Again: Agent-Direct Score F (23.1%)

Site: https://www.thymeandagain.ca/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thymeandagain.ca
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Thyme & Again is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Thyme & Again, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://thymeandagain.ca/pages/food-shop-landing
- Phone: +1-613-722-6277

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Thyme & Again",
  "url": "https://www.thymeandagain.ca/",
  "telephone": "+1-613-722-6277",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Wellington Street West 1255"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.3996875,
    "longitude": -75.7332705
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa 08:00-17:00; Su 10:00-17:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "regional"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://thymeandagain.ca/pages/food-shop-landing"
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **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.

## Where it stands
434 of 504 in Ottawa. Top 86% 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 | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Petit Bill's Bistro (B, 186 m, https://directindex.org/r/petitbillsbistro.com); The Wellington Gastropub (C, 303 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewellingtongastropub.com); gezellig (C, 1821 m, https://directindex.org/r/gezelligdining.ca); Gongfu Bao (A, 3385 m, https://directindex.org/r/gongfu.ca); Shakey's (C, 3684 m, https://directindex.org/r/shakeyshomestyle.com); Beckta (B, 3910 m, https://directindex.org/r/beckta.com); Restaurant 18 (C, 4347 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant18.com); Alora (B, 4403 m, https://directindex.org/r/aloraottawa.com); Starling (A, 4496 m, https://directindex.org/r/starlingottawa.ca).

## 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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Shopify 48% (26% A or B, 2586 sites); This site 23.1%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thymeandagain.ca/agent-view

## Businesses like Thyme & Again in Ottawa

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa | 504 | 54% | 35% | 23.1% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Ottawa | 20 | 29% | 0% | 23.1% |

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Ottawa: La Roma Restaurant (D 47.7%, https://directindex.org/r/laromaottawa.com); Mr. Puffs (D 47.7%, https://directindex.org/r/mrpuffs.com); Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom (D 46.2%, https://directindex.org/r/btpshop.ca); Harmons Steakhouse (D 43.1%, https://directindex.org/r/harmonssteakhouse.com); Chickpeas (F 38.5%, https://directindex.org/r/chickpeasottawa.ca).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 10th of 504 in Ottawa, up from 434th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Thyme & Again, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thymeandagain.ca
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://thymeandagain.ca/pages/food-shop-landing (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa 08:00-17:00; Su 10:00-17:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-613-722-6277
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thymeandagain.ca/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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thymeandagain.ca/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/thymeandagain.ca/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=thymeandagain.ca&force=1