The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Manchester cafes and bars, GB

Manchester cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

195 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 133 reachable. 23% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 47% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 41 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

195

sites scanned

23%

turn an AI crawler away

47%

book or order on their own domain

41

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F95
C36
B30
D23
A11
Menu or price list
none61
HTML page51
PDF17
elsewhere3
image1
Direct booking or ordering
none65
own site52
vendor on own site10
third party6
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge31
Block one in robots.txt6
Unreachable from our scanner62

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 133 reachable sites.

Method

How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.