The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-18

Friction

frictionessendon.com.au is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Friction directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Report a mistake

30 English St, 3041, Melbourne · +61390269299

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Friction's website. What Friction offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

63.1%

41 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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 Friction compares

Where it stands

1,190 of 3,067 in Melbourne cafes and bars

Top 39% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Father's Office C, Flight Club C. Just below: Gallery Cafe at Berwick C, Geo's Cafe C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours28%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 311 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 11,547 sites65%49%63.1%
Sites using OpenTable 2,352 sites65%40%63.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
LaManna Cafe bistro, coffee_shop105 mAyes
Mr McCracken253 mAyes
Bola Bake594 mDno
Basq Essendon Fields708 mAyes
Oliver's Patisserie and Cafe1.1 kmFno
ilikewine.com.au1.4 kmByes
Signature Brew Cafe1.6 kmDno
Thyme Westfeild Airport West1.7 kmFyes
Skyways Hotel1.8 kmAyes
Francis Winifred Cafe And Store1.8 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Friction in Melbourne cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne cafes and bars3,06754%31%63.1%
Sites built with Squarespace in Melbourne cafes and bars56573%57%63.1%
Sites using OpenTable in Melbourne cafes and bars11761%34%63.1%
Sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Melbourne cafes and bars3167%48%63.1%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Melbourne cafes and bars

Bar Clara A 92.3% · Farmers Arms Daylesford A 86.2% · Rumour Mill B 80% · Saint Jaxie B 80% · OPPEN B 75.4%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 40th of 3,067 in Melbourne cafes and bars, up from 1190th.

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. Booking only through opentable +12 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. 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

  4. 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 Melbourne cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about: 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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

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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": "Friction",
  "url": "https://www.frictionessendon.com.au/",
  "telephone": "+61390269299",
  "address": "30 English St, 3041, Melbourne",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.72688079,
    "longitude": 144.89506911
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Friction

> local business in 30 English St, 3041, Melbourne, Melbourne cafes and bars. Phone +61390269299.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.frictionessendon.com.au/s/FRICTION-MENU-2026_V3.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.frictionessendon.com.au/
- 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

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/frictionessendon.com.au"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/frictionessendon.com.au.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" 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 Friction

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/frictionessendon.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.frictionessendon.com.au/s/FRICTION-MENU-2026_V3.pdf pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+61390269299

Stable links that count: /go/frictionessendon.com.au/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
OpenTable, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Source. About OpenTable · all vendors.

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 businessyes