# Hatters Food and Drinks Hall: Agent-Direct Score D (47.7%)

Site: https://hattersfoodhall.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hattersfoodhall.com
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Hatters Food and Drinks Hall is hard for agents to use.
An AI assistant can open Hatters Food and Drinks Hall's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through skiddle.com.

## Direct links
- Address: 16 Market St, M34 2XW, Manchester

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Hatters Food and Drinks Hall that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- QFC Quality Fried Chicken (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/yfcdenton.co.uk
- Canton House (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/cantonhousedenton.co.uk
- Lorenzo Denton (130 m): https://directindex.org/r/lorenzodenton.co.uk
- Nero's Kitchen (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/neroskitchen.co.uk
- Istanbul Grill (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/istanbulgrill.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
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **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
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Hatters Food and Drinks Hall",
  "url": "https://hattersfoodhall.com/",
  "address": "16 Market St, M34 2XW, Manchester",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.45527105,
    "longitude": -2.11439167
  }
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Hatters Food and Drinks Hall

> local business in 16 Market St, M34 2XW, Manchester, Manchester.

## About

- Website: https://hattersfoodhall.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.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.

## Where it stands
1548 of 2377 in Manchester. Top 65% 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 | 99% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Local Lounge (B, 28 m, https://directindex.org/r/thelocallounge.co.uk); QFC Quality Fried Chicken (B, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/yfcdenton.co.uk); Canton House (B, 115 m, https://directindex.org/r/cantonhousedenton.co.uk); Lorenzo Denton (B, 131 m, https://directindex.org/r/lorenzodenton.co.uk); Vault 2 - Bar & Bistro - Denton (C, 132 m, https://directindex.org/r/vaulttwo.co.uk); Nero's Kitchen (A, 148 m, https://directindex.org/r/neroskitchen.co.uk); Istanbul Grill (B, 151 m, https://directindex.org/r/istanbulgrill.uk); Love Mumbai (A, 153 m, https://directindex.org/r/lovemumbai.co.uk); Denton Kebab House (D, 192 m, https://directindex.org/r/dentonkebabhouse.co.uk); The MCR Hotbox (B, 200 m, https://directindex.org/r/themcrhotbox.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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 89 places. Hatters Food and Drinks Hall wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended


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

## Businesses like Hatters Food and Drinks Hall in Manchester

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2377 | 55% | 33% | 47.7% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester: Abaseen Oldham (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/abaseenoldham.co.uk); Beech Inn (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/socialpubandkitchen.co.uk); Bread & Butties - Sale (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/breadandbuttiessale.online); Double Tree (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/doubletreealtrincham.co.uk); Emilio's (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/emilios.online).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 98.5%. That would be 37th of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 1548th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hatters Food and Drinks Hall, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hattersfoodhall.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record

## 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/hattersfoodhall.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: yes
- 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/hattersfoodhall.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/hattersfoodhall.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=hattersfoodhall.com&force=1
