# The Fan Tan Café: Agent-Direct Score F (21.5%)

Site: https://fantancafe.ca/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/fantancafe.ca
Scanned: 2026-11-14 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
The Fan Tan Café is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open The Fan Tan Café's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://fantancafe.ca/gluten-free-menu
- Phone: +1 250 383-1611
- Address: 549 Fisgard Street
- Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon 11:30–19:45; Tue 12:00–19:45; Wed closed; Thu–Fri 12:00–19:45; Sat–Sun 11:30–19:45
- Prices: 12 prices on the site, the middle one CA$5.25

## Nearby, also direct
Places near The Fan Tan Café that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Ugly Duckling Dining & Provisions (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/uglyducklingrestaurant.ca
- Don Mee Seafood Restaurant (40 m): https://directindex.org/r/donmee.com
- Golden City (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/goldencityrestaurant-victoria.com
- Driftwood Chinese Buffet and Bar (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/driftwoodrestaurants.com
- Beijing Bistro (640 m): https://directindex.org/r/beijingbistro.ca

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2018.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.
- **12 prices on the landing page, the middle one CA$5.25.** In Victoria, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is CA$15.00.

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Fan Tan Café",
  "url": "https://fantancafe.ca/",
  "telephone": "+1 250 383-1611",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "549 Fisgard Street"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 48.4292531,
    "longitude": -123.367863
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo,Sa-Su 11:30-19:45; Tu,Th-Fr 12:00-19:45",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "19:45"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "19:45"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "chinese"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://fantancafe.ca/gluten-free-menu"
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.

## Where it stands
325 of 348 in Victoria. Top 93% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 71% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 40% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Ugly Duckling Dining & Provisions (A, 14 m, https://directindex.org/r/uglyducklingrestaurant.ca); Don Mee Seafood Restaurant (C, 35 m, https://directindex.org/r/donmee.com); Golden City (B, 329 m, https://directindex.org/r/goldencityrestaurant-victoria.com); Driftwood Chinese Buffet and Bar (A, 332 m, https://directindex.org/r/driftwoodrestaurants.com); Hope Key (D, 372 m, https://directindex.org/r/hopekey.ca); March (F, 529 m, https://directindex.org/r/res-menu.net); Szechuan Restaurant (F, 638 m, https://directindex.org/r/szechuanonline.com); Beijing Bistro (B, 643 m, https://directindex.org/r/beijingbistro.ca); Fountain Restaurant (A, 1026 m, https://directindex.org/r/fountainrestauranttogo.com); J B I Restaurant (F, 1552 m, https://directindex.org/r/jamesbayinn.com).

## 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 22 everyday questions about Victoria and named 88 places. The Fan Tan Café wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/victoria/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 36% (10% A or B, 9348 sites); This site 21.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/fantancafe.ca/agent-view

## Businesses like The Fan Tan Café in Victoria

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Victoria | 348 | 62% | 41% | 21.5% |
| Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Victoria | 12 | 37% | 8% | 21.5% |

The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Victoria: 70'ees Pizza (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/70eespizza.com); Menbow Ramen Bar (C 56.9%, https://directindex.org/r/menbowramenbar.com); Benjo's Tacos (D 49.2%, https://directindex.org/r/benjostacos.com); Yo-Kare (D 49.2%, https://directindex.org/r/yo-kare.com); Melt (D 41.5%, https://directindex.org/r/melttruck.ca).

With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 17th of 348 in Victoria, up from 325th.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Fan Tan Café, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/fantancafe.ca
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://fantancafe.ca/gluten-free-menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo,Sa-Su 11:30-19:45; Tu,Th-Fr 12:00-19:45 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1 250 383-1611
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/fantancafe.ca/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 TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/fantancafe.ca/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/fantancafe.ca/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=fantancafe.ca&force=1