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

Crossroads Cafe

xroads.cafe is mostly ready for agents.

Order directly: app.squareup.com/gift/MLC3D4C1WX21Q/order through square acting for the business · Menu: www.xroads.cafe/menu

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B
76.9%

50 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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. 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: squarespace · 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 squarespace 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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Crossroads Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.xroads.cafe/",
  "telephone": "+1-347-422-0969",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Knickerbocker Avenue 119"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7050509,
    "longitude": -73.928984
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "sandwich",
    "pastry"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.xroads.cafe/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://app.squareup.com/gift/MLC3D4C1WX21Q/order",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Crossroads Cafe

> cafe or coffee shop (sandwich, pastry) in Knickerbocker Avenue 119, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-347-422-0969.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://app.squareup.com/gift/MLC3D4C1WX21Q/order (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.xroads.cafe/menu

## About

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

299 of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars

Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Corner Bistro East B, Crispy Heaven Bakery B. Just below: Frenchy Cafe B, Gather B.

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 hours23%no
Have an llms.txt10%no

The top tenth is the 164 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 6,916 sites64%46%76.9%
Sites using Square 774 sites69%48%76.9%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Nook coffee_shop, sandwich365 mByes
Pitanga health_food, sandwich, juice470 mAyes
Cilantro Club coffee_shop, sandwich529 mFno
Bushwick Bakery pastry, salad, sandwich579 mByes
Hart Bar sandwich, snack971 mByes
IC Brooklyn Cafe sandwich1.0 kmFno
Win Son Bakery coffee_shop, asian, taiwanese, pastry1.2 kmFno
Mixtape Bushwick coffee, tea, coffee_shop, sandwich1.4 kmFno
The Seneca american, burger, sandwich1.6 kmCyes
Fortunato Brothers pastry1.7 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Crossroads Cafe in New York cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York cafes and bars1,80841%26%76.9%
Built with Squarespace in New York cafes and bars40367%44%76.9%
Using Square in New York cafes and bars7471%59%76.9%
Built with Squarespace and using Square in New York cafes and bars4674%74%76.9%

The best of Built with Squarespace and using Square in New York cafes and bars

Fifth Hammer Brewing Company A 93.8% · Plug Uglies A 92.3% · Henry Public A 90.8% · Decibel A 86.2% · Grace Street A 86.2%

The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 103rd of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars, up from 299th.

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 Crossroads Cafe

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderapp.squareup.com/gift/MLC3D4C1WX21Q/order vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menuwww.xroads.cafe/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-347-422-0969

Stable links that count: /go/xroads.cafe/order, /go/xroads.cafe/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
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

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.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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
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.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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Owners

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