# The Crown & Sceptre: Agent-Direct Score D (41.5%)

Site: https://www.crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Crown & Sceptre is hard for agents to use.
AI assistants cannot open the website of The Crown & Sceptre, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/#EAT
- Phone: +44 20 8688 8037

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (http_403); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp, which agents cannot use yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (BarOrPub).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: The site could not be read at all
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away; No booking or ordering path at all

## Where it stands
1685 of 2436 in London cafes and bars. Top 69% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 69% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 12% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Spreadeagle (C, 1438 m, https://directindex.org/r/whelanspubs.co.uk); Beatbox (B, 1753 m, https://directindex.org/r/boxpark.co.uk); Tao Cafe (D, 1837 m, https://directindex.org/r/taocafe.co.uk); AMT Coffee (C, 1904 m, https://directindex.org/r/amtcoffee.co.uk); Trickle (A, 1917 m, https://directindex.org/r/tricklelondon.co.uk); The Builders Arms (D, 2350 m, https://directindex.org/r/buildersarmscroydon.co.uk); Jolly Farmers (A, 2730 m, https://directindex.org/r/jollyfarmers-purley.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like The Crown & Sceptre in London cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars | 2436 | 54% | 38% | 41.5% |
| Sites built with Duda in London cafes and bars | 13 | 29% | 0% | 41.5% |

The best of the sites built with Duda in London cafes and bars: The Albert Arms (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk); The Barley Mow (D 41.5%, https://directindex.org/r/barley-mow-epsom.co.uk); The Griffin (D 41.5%, https://directindex.org/r/griffinbrentford.co.uk); The Warwick Arms (D 41.5%, https://directindex.org/r/warwick-arms-kensington.co.uk); The Angel & Crown (F 38.5%, https://directindex.org/r/angel-and-crown-richmond.co.uk).

With the two fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No booking or ordering link on the website) the score would be about 100%: first of 2,436 in London cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Crown & Sceptre, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/#EAT (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-24:00; Su 12:00-22:30 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 20 8688 8037
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got http_403); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=crownandsceptresouthcroydon.co.uk&force=1