The Direct Index
Report · Manchester · scanned 2026-10-21

Cane & Grain

caneandgrain.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Cane & Grain directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Through sevenrooms acting for the business. Report a mistake

49, 51 Thomas St, M4 1NA, Manchester · +441618397033

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cane & Grain that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Cane & Grain's website. It can read what Cane & Grain offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SevenRooms.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

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.

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Assistants

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 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 90 places. Cane & Grain wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Cane & Grain compares

Where it stands

955 of 2,391 in Manchester

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: American Southern Fried Chicken C, Cake Box C. Just below: Chester's C, Chesters Horwich C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt28%no

The top 10% are the 245 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using SevenRooms 1,973 sites70%52%61.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Smithfield Social18 mByes
4244 Edge Street31 mByes
What the Pitta vegan38 mByes
Common pizza42 mAyes
Yard & Coop chicken49 mByes
Pupa55 mByes
Wolf At The Door61 mDno
White Hart Cheadle66 mAyes
Hampton & VoÚIs (Nq) breakfast_and_brunch85 mCno
TNQ The Northern Quarter Restaurant86 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cane & Grain in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,39155%32%61.5%
Sites using SevenRooms in Manchester1969%58%61.5%

The best of the sites using SevenRooms in Manchester

Tattu A 90% · Circolo Popolare - Manchester B 84.6% · MyLahore B 84.6% · La Viña B 83.1% · Elnecot B 81.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 159th of 2,391 in Manchester, up from 955th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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. How to fix it

  2. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.

  3. 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

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.
  • Booking through sevenrooms on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • SevenRooms works with agents through its partners SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://sevenrooms.com/terms-of-service/. 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: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /cane-grain/?about: phone; menu page /cane-grain/?menu: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Cane & Grain",
  "url": "http://www.CaneAndGrain.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+441618397033",
  "address": "49, 51 Thomas St, M4 1NA, Manchester",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.48395149,
    "longitude": -2.23649418
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.sevenrooms.com/explore/caneandrrain/reservations/create/search/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Cane & Grain

> local business (bar and grill) in 49, 51 Thomas St, M4 1NA, Manchester, Manchester. Phone +441618397033.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.sevenrooms.com/explore/caneandrrain/reservations/create/search/ (through sevenrooms acting for the business)
- Menu: http://www.caneandgrain.co.uk/cane-grain/?menu

## About

- Website: http://www.CaneAndGrain.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Cane & Grain

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/caneandgrain.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.sevenrooms.com/explore/caneandrrain/reservations/create/ vendor on own site: SevenRoomsfound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.caneandgrain.co.uk/cane-grain/?menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+441618397033

Stable links that count: /go/caneandgrain.co.uk/book, /go/caneandgrain.co.uk/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
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
Vendor terms for agents
SevenRooms, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

SevenRooms' terms (17 April 2026) bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means except bona fide search engines; Google names SevenRooms as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About SevenRooms · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /cane-grain/: phone.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
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 businessno