# The Whale Tea: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%) Site: https://www.whaleteabk.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/whaleteabk.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Whale Tea is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Whale Tea's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Chowbus POS. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/13956 (through chowbus_pos acting for the business) - Phone: 19295337288 - Address: 6511 Bay Pkwy, 11204-3932, Brooklyn ## What to fix first - **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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Whale Tea > local business in 6511 Bay Pkwy, 11204-3932, Brooklyn, New York cafes and bars. Phone 19295337288. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/13956 (through chowbus_pos acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://www.whaleteabk.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Ordering through chowbus_pos on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 1969 of 4114 in New York cafes and bars. Top 48% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 23% | no | Nearest places in the index: Vivi's Bubble Tea (D, 214 m, https://directindex.org/r/vivibubbletea.com); Cafe Lounge (F, 896 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafeloungenyc.com); Ave P Coffee Shop (F, 901 m, https://directindex.org/r/avpcoffeeshop.com); Lou Lou Lounge (D, 922 m, https://directindex.org/r/loulouloungenyc.com); Caffé Bene (F, 988 m, https://directindex.org/r/caffebeneusa.com); Beer Taps (D, 1055 m, https://directindex.org/r/beertaps.com); OH! Bagel (B, 1573 m, https://directindex.org/r/ohbagelcafe.com); BHI Thursdays (A, 1603 m, https://directindex.org/r/bhithursdays.com); Davry Kosher Sports Bar (F, 1610 m, https://directindex.org/r/davrykoshersportsbar.com); Cafe Renaissance (D, 1628 m, https://directindex.org/r/caferenaissance.com). ## What assistants answer 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 New York cafes and bars and named 95 places. The Whale Tea wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york-cafes-bars/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Wix 52% (28% A or B, 48660 sites); Sites using Chowbus POS 67% (59% A or B, 149 sites); This site 53.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/whaleteabk.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Whale Tea in New York cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York cafes and bars | 4114 | 48% | 27% | 53.8% | | Sites built with Wix in New York cafes and bars | 221 | 61% | 36% | 53.8% | | Sites using Chowbus POS in New York cafes and bars | 6 | 64% | 33% | 53.8% | | Sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in New York cafes and bars | 6 | 64% | 33% | 53.8% | The best of the sites built with Wix and using Chowbus POS in New York cafes and bars: Sing NYC 星财记 (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/singnyc.online); Cafe 1 of a Kind (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/cafe1ofakind.com); Tsaocaa Tea Bayside & I'm Mochi Donut (C 67.5%, https://directindex.org/r/tsaocaatea.com); The Duo Coffee & Cocktail Bar (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/theduocoffeebar.com); Cafe 2by2 (F 33.8%, https://directindex.org/r/cafe2by2.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 248th of 4,114 in New York cafes and bars, up from 1969th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Whale Tea, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/whaleteabk.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/13956 (vendor on own site: Chowbus POS; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: 19295337288 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/whaleteabk.com/order ## 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): yes - 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, Chowbus POS: 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. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/whaleteabk.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/whaleteabk.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/whaleteabk.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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=whaleteabk.com&force=1