The Direct Index
Report · New York cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Toast

toastnyc.com is partly visible to agents.

Order directly: www.toasttab.com/toastuptownnyc through toast acting for the business · Menu: toastnyc.com/brunch-menu/

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C
64.6%

42 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

2

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 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. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Toast",
  "url": "https://toastnyc.com/",
  "telephone": "+1212-662-1144",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Broadway 3157",
    "postalCode": "10027",
    "addressLocality": "New York"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.8147613,
    "longitude": -73.9593075
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://toastnyc.com/brunch-menu/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.toasttab.com/toastuptownnyc",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Toast

> bar or pub in Broadway 3157 10027 New York, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1212-662-1144.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.toasttab.com/toastuptownnyc (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://toastnyc.com/brunch-menu/

## About

- Website: https://toastnyc.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

602 of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars

Top 37% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Crossbar C, The Lowery C. Just below: Whiskey Trader C, Little Cupcake Bakeshop C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours24%no
Have an llms.txt11%no

The top tenth is the 162 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 36,926 sites58%29%64.6%
Sites using Toast 1,884 sites74%63%64.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Craftsman juice, coffee_shop, tea, sandwich, beer, wine13 mDno
The Expat98 mCyes
Cotton Club325 mCyes
Omega Bakery & Cafe717 mCno
Sugar Monk903 mBno
Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor921 mByes
Oren's Daily Roast1.1 kmDno
Harlem Tavern pub1.2 kmByes
Qahwah House coffee_shop1.2 kmAyes
BO's Bagels bagel1.3 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Toast in New York cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York cafes and bars1,61246%30%64.6%
Built with WordPress in New York cafes and bars23560%33%64.6%
Using Toast in New York cafes and bars8177%69%64.6%
Built with WordPress and using Toast in New York cafes and bars966%22%64.6%

The best of Built with WordPress and using Toast in New York cafes and bars

Kissa Kissa A 93.8% · Keybar A 88.8% · Tap That C 63.1% · The Seneca C 61.5% · Zatar C 61.1%

The climb

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 72nd of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars, up from 602nd.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Toast

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/toastnyc.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.toasttab.com/toastuptownnyc vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menutoastnyc.com/brunch-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1212-662-1144

Stable links that count: /go/toastnyc.com/order, /go/toastnyc.com/menu 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.

Transactable

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.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno
Assistants

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.

Badge

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Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/toastnyc.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/toastnyc.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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