The Direct Index
Report · Philadelphia · scanned 2026-10-16

Vientiane Café

vientiane-cafe.com is mostly ready for agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of Vientiane Café. It can read what Vientiane Café offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Order directly: vientianebistro.square.site/ through square acting for the business · Menu: www.vientiane-cafe.com/menu/dinner

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83.1%

54 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

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.

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.

Where it stands

How Vientiane Café compares

Where it stands

124 of 638 in Philadelphia

Top 19% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Chickie's & Pete's Cafe B, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse B. Just below: Drake Tavern B, Bank & Bourbon B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML98%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)83%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours58%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 64 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,341 sites66%50%83.1%
Sites using Square 928 sites66%44%83.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Dahlak ethiopian, eritrean49 mDno
Hayashi Sushi japanese, sushi, poke, bubble_tea, salad90 mCyes
The Gold Standard Café american, coffee_shop151 mCyes
Desi Village indian327 mCyes
Queen of Sheba ethiopian383 mDno
48th Street Grille caribbean, american532 mCyes
Booker's Restaurant & Bar542 mCyes
J&P Seafood seafood579 mCyes
Pizza Plus pizza581 mDyes
Don Barriga mexican723 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Vientiane Café in Philadelphia

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia63856%39%83.1%
Sites built with Squarespace in Philadelphia8073%68%83.1%
Sites using Square in Philadelphia862%50%83.1%
Sites built with Squarespace and using Square in Philadelphia382%100%83.1%

The best of the sites using Square in Philadelphia

Revolution Taco B 84.6% · Baby's Kusina + Market B 76.9% · Percy B 72.3% · Wood Street Pizza C 66.2% · Gilda Cafe & Market D 50.8%

The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 85th of 638 in Philadelphia, up from 124th.

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

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: address, telephone. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Philadelphia. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact-us: nothing new; menu page /menu/dinner: nothing new

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 squarespace is in the guides.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Vientiane Café",
  "url": "https://www.vientiane-cafe.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-215-726-1095",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Baltimore Avenue 4728",
    "postalCode": "19143",
    "addressLocality": "Philadelphia",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 39.9483295,
    "longitude": -75.2179106
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo off; Tu-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su off",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "lao",
    "thai"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.vientiane-cafe.com/menu/dinner",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://vientianebistro.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Vientiane Café

> restaurant (lao, thai) in Baltimore Avenue 4728 19143 Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Phone +1-215-726-1095.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://vientianebistro.square.site/ (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.vientiane-cafe.com/menu/dinner

## Opening hours

Mo off; Tu-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su off

## About

- Website: https://www.vientiane-cafe.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Vientiane Café

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/vientiane-cafe.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/philadelphia/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordervientianebistro.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuwww.vientiane-cafe.com/menu/dinner html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo off; Tu-Sa 16:00-21:00; Su off (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-215-726-1095

Stable links that count: /go/vientiane-cafe.com/order, /go/vientiane-cafe.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
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · all vendors.

Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
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 businessyes