The Direct Index
Report · Manchester cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

Bittersweet

enjoybittersweet.com is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Bittersweet directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

8, Old Town Hall, Parliment Square, OL1 1PL, Oldham · +441616282211

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Bittersweet's website. What Bittersweet offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It can't find a link to book or order online.

39.5%

25.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

5

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.

Where it stands

How Bittersweet compares

Where it stands

823 of 1,326 in Manchester cafes and bars

Top 62% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Gallows D, The Gillery D. Just below: Reflexion Lounge F, Sky Bar F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML88%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)87%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours27%no
Have an llms.txt23%no

The top 10% are the 137 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites57%28%39.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Fox and Pine35 mDno
Walkabout Inn174 mFno
Rollers200 mFno
Bees Knees Oldham239 mDno
Nosh310 mFno
Stein Bier Keller Oldham315 mFno
MilJul Chai House336 mBno
Blue Onion Café377 mFno
Mazzalini lounge1.1 kmFno
Boithok Khana Oldham1.2 kmBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Bittersweet in Manchester cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars1,32649%24%39.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Manchester cafes and bars42959%34%39.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Manchester cafes and bars

Goodtime Games A 96.3% · Bulls Head Hale Barns A 95.4% · The Brown Cow A 95.4% · The Tatton Arms A 95.4% · The Wagon Uppermill A 90.8%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 90.8%. That would be 19th of 1,326 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 823rd.

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 +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points

    There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. 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

  5. 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 cafes and bars. 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.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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": "Bittersweet",
  "url": "http://www.enjoybittersweet.com/",
  "telephone": "+441616282211",
  "address": "8, Old Town Hall, Parliment Square, OL1 1PL, Oldham",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.54108638,
    "longitude": -2.1110726
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Bittersweet

> local business in 8, Old Town Hall, Parliment Square, OL1 1PL, Oldham, Manchester cafes and bars. Phone +441616282211.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://enjoybittersweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BS_Menu_A3_L_2pp_1024_Final.pdf

## About

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

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/enjoybittersweet.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/enjoybittersweet.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Bittersweet

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/enjoybittersweet.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuenjoybittersweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BS_Menu_A3_L pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+441616282211

Stable links that count: /go/enjoybittersweet.com/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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

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.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
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