The Direct Index
Report · Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-14

Local NCL

localncl.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderWebsite

Ways to reach Local NCL directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 08:00–17:00

Acorn Road 18 NE2 2DJ Newcastle upon Tyne

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Local NCL 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 Local NCL'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 Square.

53.8%

35 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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 Local NCL compares

Where it stands

173 of 343 in Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars

Top 50% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Café W D, Earthlings D. Just below: Spud Life D, The Coffee Trader D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML94%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)91%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours37%no
Have an llms.txt43%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Square 6,607 sites66%44%53.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Angel’s Share90 mDno
1901 Caffe Bistro110 mByes
Sohe121 mFno
Spy135 mCyes
Billabong159 mByes
Arlo261 mFno
Harvest Canteen262 mDno
Lemon Grass Deli & Kitchen thai270 mByes
North Terrace289 mFno
Frank's323 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Local NCL in Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars34351%29%53.8%

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 87.7%. That would be 21st of 343 in Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars, up from 173rd.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). 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. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /contact: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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. Show the details