The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-24

Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse

tonysbarbecue.com is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through doordash_storefront acting for the business. Report a mistake

102 McCarty St, 77029, Houston · +13463357100

Nearby, also direct

Places near Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

AI assistants can't open Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

27.7%

18 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2022.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Houston, 76% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 61 places. Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse compares

Where it stands

2,207 of 2,663 in Houston

Top 83% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Line & Lariat F, Taverna F. Just below: Truth BBQ F, Bob's Steak and Chop House F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML97%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%no
Have an llms.txt53%no

The top 10% are the 271 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 7,300 sites35%9%27.7%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront 2,547 sites70%58%27.7%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Palmer Logistics1.0 kmDno
Taconmadre (Food Truck) taco1.9 kmByes
Taqueria Los Reyes mexican2.2 kmFno
Alamos Taqueria mexican2.5 kmFno
Zunex Restaurant & Seafood Bar seafood2.5 kmByes
Taco mex and gyros mexican3.1 kmCyes
Thomas and Thomas BBQ & Catering barbecue3.5 kmBno
Don Rey Mexican Restaurant mexican3.6 kmCyes
Mount Olive Gourmet Foods, Inc3.9 kmFno
Triple J's Smokehouse barbecue4.0 kmBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston2,66354%35%27.7%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Houston8848%23%27.7%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront in Houston9972%61%27.7%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using DoorDash Storefront in Houston556%40%27.7%

The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using DoorDash Storefront in Houston

The Brisket House B 81.5% · Pepe's Burgs & Margs B 73.4% · M Express Kitchen C 66.2% · Savory Scratch Kitchen F 32.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 303rd of 2,663 in Houston, up from 2207th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  3. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows 3466779081, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +13463357100. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Houston. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: godaddy · A plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on godaddy.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse",
  "url": "http://www.tonysbarbecue.com/",
  "telephone": "+13463357100",
  "address": "102 McCarty St, 77029, Houston",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.78973633,
    "longitude": -95.27822169
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.online/business/tonys-barbecue--steak-house-136606",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/tonysbarbecue.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/tonysbarbecue.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Tony's BBQ and Steakhouse

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/tonysbarbecue.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.online/business/tonys-barbecue--steak-house-136606 vendor on own site: DoorDash Storefrontfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menutonysbarbecue.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+13463357100

Stable links that count: /go/tonysbarbecue.com/order, /go/tonysbarbecue.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
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
Vendor terms for agents
DoorDash Storefront, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About DoorDash Storefront · all vendors.

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

JSON-LD for the businessno