The Direct Index
Report · london cafes bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Bears Ice Cream Company

bearsicecream.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Order directly: www.bearsicecream.co.uk/collections/ice-cream-cakes on the business's own site · Menu: www.bearsicecream.co.uk/blogs/blog/new-soft-serve-menu-at-br

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B
84.6%

55 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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

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

Already right

Builder: shopify · 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 shopify 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; add priceRange if you like. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Bears Ice Cream Company",
  "url": "https://www.bearsicecream.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 20 3441 4982",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Goldhawk Road 244",
    "addressLocality": "London"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.500083,
    "longitude": -0.2379995
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 13:00-20:30; Sa,Su 11:30-20:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "13:00",
      "closes": "20:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "20:30"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.bearsicecream.co.uk/blogs/blog/new-soft-serve-menu-at-brook-green-signature-cones-are-back",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.bearsicecream.co.uk/collections/ice-cream-cakes",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Where it stands

287 of 2,869 in London cafes and bars

Top 10% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Balls Brothers B, Battersea Brewery B. Just below: Big Belly Bar & Comedy Club B, Black Swan 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 HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt13%yes

The top tenth is the 291 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 1,336 sites61%36%84.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
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Thatched House442 mCyes
The Duchess W6445 mCyes
The Andover Arms518 mByes
The Prince of Wales Townhouse610 mAyes
W6 Garden Centre Cafe coffee_shop656 mCno
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.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
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

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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