# The Ginger Bistro: Agent-Direct Score D (49.7%) Site: http://www.gingerbistro.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/gingerbistro.com 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 Ginger Bistro is hard for agents to use. Some AI assistants are turned away by The Ginger Bistro's website. What The Ginger Bistro offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ResDiary. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/GingerBistro/21564 (through resdiary acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.gingerbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ginger-menu.pdf - Address: Great Victoria Street 68-72 BT2 7BB Belfast ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Ginger Bistro that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Hope Street Restaurant (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/hopestreetbelfast.co.uk - Innfusion Restaurant (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/leonardohotels.co.uk - Fratelli (90 m): https://directindex.org/r/fratellibelfast.com - Red Panda (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/theredpanda.co.uk - India Gate (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/indiagatebelfast.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 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 - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Ginger Bistro > restaurant in Great Victoria Street 68-72 BT2 7BB Belfast, Belfast. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/GingerBistro/21564 (through resdiary acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.gingerbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ginger-menu.pdf ## About - Website: http://www.gingerbistro.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **Booking through resdiary on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. - **ResDiary works with agents through its partners.** ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms. 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. ## Where it stands 295 of 429 in Belfast. Top 69% 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% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 45% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 16% | no | Nearest places in the index: Hope Street Restaurant (B, 14 m, https://directindex.org/r/hopestreetbelfast.co.uk); Innfusion Restaurant (B, 84 m, https://directindex.org/r/leonardohotels.co.uk); Fratelli (B, 85 m, https://directindex.org/r/fratellibelfast.com); Red Panda (D, 99 m, https://directindex.org/r/theredpanda.co.uk); India Gate (B, 107 m, https://directindex.org/r/indiagatebelfast.uk); Nora's Palace (C, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/noraspalaceonline.com); Little Italy (B, 159 m, https://directindex.org/r/littleitalybelfast.co.uk); KUBO (C, 167 m, https://directindex.org/r/kubobelfast.com); Nando's (A, 172 m, https://directindex.org/r/nandos.co.uk); Archana (B, 189 m, https://directindex.org/r/archana.co.uk). ## 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. Recommended when people ask: "I'm coeliac. A restaurant with real gluten-free options for dinner, book it." (Gemini) Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 270003 sites); Sites using ResDiary 73% (62% A or B, 1131 sites); This site 49.7%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/gingerbistro.com/agent-view ## Named by Gemini for "I'm coeliac. A restaurant with real gluten-free options for dinner, book it" in Belfast, November 2026 - "I'm coeliac. A restaurant with real gluten-free options for dinner, book it." (2026-11-14): Gemini with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/belfast/recommended/gluten-free Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/gingerbistro.com.svg ## Businesses like The Ginger Bistro in Belfast | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Belfast | 429 | 58% | 32% | 49.7% | | Sites built with WordPress in Belfast | 97 | 66% | 48% | 49.7% | | Sites using ResDiary in Belfast | 37 | 74% | 59% | 49.7% | | Sites built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Belfast | 16 | 70% | 50% | 49.7% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Belfast: The Causerie (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/europahotelbelfast.com); Dumpling Library (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/dumplinglibrary.co.uk); Shu Restaurant Belfast (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/shu-restaurant.com); Coco (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/cocobelfast.com); House Of Zen (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/houseofzenbelfast.co.uk). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 35th of 429 in Belfast, up from 295th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Ginger Bistro, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/gingerbistro.com - Book: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/GingerBistro/21564 (vendor on own site: ResDiary; found by the scan of 2026-11-14, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.gingerbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ginger-menu.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/gingerbistro.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/gingerbistro.com/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 - Vendor terms for agents, ResDiary: Through partners. ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 18.3 | 25 | | Readable | 4 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/gingerbistro.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/gingerbistro.com/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/gingerbistro.com/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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=gingerbistro.com&force=1