# Bengal Cottage: Agent-Direct Score C (69.2%) Site: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Bengal Cottage is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Bengal Cottage's website. It can read what Bengal Cottage offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Order directly: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# (on the business's own site) - Menu: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# - Phone: 01204 771 393 - Address: Lee Lane 80A BL6 7AE Bolton - Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes - Prices: 6 prices on the site, the middle one £7.25 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Bengal Cottage that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - The Familia (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/thefamilia.uk - Nightbar Horwich (40 m): https://directindex.org/r/nightbarhorwich.com - Mr. Chips (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/mrchipshorwich.online - Square Slice (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/squareslicepizza.co.uk - Leo's Italian Restaurant (470 m): https://directindex.org/r/leoshorwich.co.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2024.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Manchester, 75% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. - **6 prices on the landing page, the middle one £7.25.** In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.00. ## 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. ``` # Bengal Cottage > restaurant in Lee Lane 80A BL6 7AE Bolton, Manchester. Phone 01204 771 393. ## Book or order directly - Order: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# (on the business's own site) - Menu: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# ## About - Website: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 781 of 2377 in Manchester. Top 33% 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 | 99% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 28% | no | Nearest places in the index: The Familia (B, 27 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefamilia.uk); Nightbar Horwich (B, 36 m, https://directindex.org/r/nightbarhorwich.com); Max Italia (D, 38 m, https://directindex.org/r/maxmax.co.uk); King Lee (C, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/kinglee.co.uk); Casa Di Tapas (F, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/casaditapas.co.uk); Mr. Chips (A, 135 m, https://directindex.org/r/mrchipshorwich.online); Square Slice (D, 139 m, https://directindex.org/r/squareslicepizza.co.uk); Hong Hu (C, 283 m, https://directindex.org/r/newhonghu.co.uk); Blue Anchor Fish & Chips (D, 300 m, https://directindex.org/r/blueanchorhorwich.co.uk); Leo's Italian Restaurant (A, 470 m, https://directindex.org/r/leoshorwich.co.uk). ## 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 23 everyday questions about Manchester and named 142 places. Bengal Cottage wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Bengal Cottage in Manchester | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2377 | 55% | 33% | 69.2% | The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester: Abaseen Oldham (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/abaseenoldham.co.uk); Beech Inn (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/socialpubandkitchen.co.uk); Bread & Butties - Sale (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/breadandbuttiessale.online); Double Tree (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/doubletreealtrincham.co.uk); Emilio's (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/emilios.online). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 42nd of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 781st. ## The direct record What agents get for Bengal Cottage, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested) - Menu: http://www.bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu/# (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: 01204 771 393 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/order, https://directindex.org/go/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/menu ## 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): no - 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/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/bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk/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=bengalcottagehorwich.co.uk&force=1