The Backbencher Gastropub
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Ways to reach The Backbencher Gastropub directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Through resdiary acting for the business. Report a mistake
34 Molesworth St, 6011, Wellington · +6444723065
Places near The Backbencher Gastropub that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Everest Chullo Wellington180 m · asian fusion
- Mariluca Ristoro - Thorndon240 m · italian
- Artisan at Bolton Hotel340 m
- Dumpling'd350 m
- Duke of Wellington370 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Backbencher Gastropub's website. What The Backbencher Gastropub offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ResDiary.
39 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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 22 everyday questions about Wellington and named 122 places. The Backbencher Gastropub wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Backbencher Gastropub compares
182 of 285 in Wellington
Top 64% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: St Pierre's Sushi C, Taste of India C. Just below: Domino's C, Kebab Plus C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 100% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 47% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 30% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 37,558 sites | 61% | 42% | 60% |
| Sites using ResDiary 1,002 sites | 73% | 62% | 60% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everest Chullo Wellington asian_fusion | 183 m | A | yes |
| Mariluca Ristoro - Thorndon italian | 244 m | A | yes |
| Nam Nam Bowen vietnamese | 295 m | C | no |
| Artisan at Bolton Hotel | 336 m | B | yes |
| Glasshouse Restaurant & Bar | 348 m | F | no |
| Dumpling'd | 351 m | C | yes |
| Duke of Wellington | 369 m | F | yes |
| Jardin Grill | 385 m | A | yes |
| Sakura Sushi japanese | 392 m | B | yes |
| Portlander | 400 m | C | yes |
Businesses like The Backbencher Gastropub in Wellington
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Wellington | 285 | 64% | 49% | 60% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Wellington | 42 | 75% | 64% | 60% |
| Sites using ResDiary in Wellington | 16 | 76% | 69% | 60% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using ResDiary in Wellington | 4 | 78% | 75% | 60% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 36th of 285 in Wellington, up from 182nd.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 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
- Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
- 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. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Wellington. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
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.
- Booking through resdiary on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- ResDiary works with agents through its partners ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: squarespace · What to paste
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