The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham · scanned 2026-10-21

La Plancha

laplancha.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach La Plancha directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Alcester Road 113 B13 8DD Birmingham · 01214495303

Prices: 81 prices on the site, the middle one £7.65

Nearby, also direct

Places near La Plancha that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open La Plancha's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

63.1%

41 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

81 prices on the landing page, the middle one £7.65.

In Birmingham, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £10.00.

Every city compared →
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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Birmingham and named 59 places. La Plancha wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How La Plancha compares

Where it stands

437 of 1,053 in Birmingham

Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Karahi King C, Karahi King Village C. Just below: Marius Maypole C, Okra Bar & Restaurant C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML85%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt40%no

The top 10% are the 108 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using OpenTable 3,121 sites65%38%63.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Grounded Kitchen korean18 mAyes
Tehran restaurant persian34 mCyes
Thali at Moseley indian87 mByes
The Cuban Embassy (The Bulls Head)91 mAyes
Maison Mayci french99 mCno
Evergreen Chinese Take Away chinese106 mDno
Tabule Kitchen middle_eastern113 mCyes
Chakana peruvian126 mAyes
Peacer italian_pizza143 mFno
Dough & Fire italian147 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like La Plancha in Birmingham

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham1,05353%34%63.1%
Sites using OpenTable in Birmingham1263%25%63.1%

The best of the sites using OpenTable in Birmingham

Lahore Karahi A 90.8% · Sapore B 81.5% · Colbeh Persian Kitchen B 72.3% · KOKO Birmingham C 67.7% · Tapas Revolution C 61.1%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 18th of 1,053 in Birmingham, up from 437th.

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 +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. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

  3. Booking only through opentable no points, but worth doing

    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

  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 Birmingham. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · booking page /takeaway.php: ordering via ubereats

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 your builder.

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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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "La Plancha",
  "url": "http://www.laplancha.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "01214495303",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Alcester Road 113",
    "postalCode": "B13 8DD",
    "addressLocality": "Birmingham"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.4470913,
    "longitude": -1.8883639
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "spanish"
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://laplancha.co.uk/takeaway.php",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# La Plancha

> restaurant (spanish) in Alcester Road 113 B13 8DD Birmingham, Birmingham. Phone 01214495303.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://laplancha.co.uk/takeaway.php (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: http://www.laplancha.co.uk/
- 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/laplancha.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/laplancha.co.uk.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 La Plancha

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/laplancha.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/birmingham/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderlaplancha.co.uk/takeaway.php own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone01214495303

Stable links that count: /go/laplancha.co.uk/order 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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /takeaway.php: ordering via ubereats.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
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