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title: What an AI agent reads on The Merchant Pub Co. · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/merchantpub.co.nz/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on The Merchant Pub Co.

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [merchantpub.co.nz](http://www.themerchantbar.co.nz/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

2,013

characters of text without JavaScript

Restaurant

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: The Merchant Pub Co. | Pub & Restaurant, Albany · language en-NZ. First 1,800 of 2,013 characters:

```
The Merchant Pub Co. | Pub & Restaurant, AlbanyBook a table Explore The Merchant Pub Co. About Menu What’s on Daily Deals Functions Contact Book a table The Merchant Pub Co.Book a table View menu Plan a functionPints, Plates + Good TimesLive Sport. Live Music.Where Albany MeetsGood beer. Great food. Even better company. Welcome to the kind of local you'll keep coming back to.From long lunches in the courtyard to after-work drinks, live sport on the big screens + weekends that have a habit of turning into late nights, The Merchant is built for good times. Pull up a stool, round up the crew or settle in for dinner— we're all about bloody good Kiwi hospitality.Life's full of reasons to celebrate — we're here for all of them. We host everything from birthdays to corporate events + everything in between - we'd love to host your next get-together.Same pub. Same team. Now 100% independently owned + no longer part of Star Group.Visit us 219 Don McKinnon Drive, Westfield Albany, Auckland[email protected](09) 444 1076Get directions →Opening hoursMonday11:30am – 9:30pmTuesday11:30am – 10:30pmWednesday11:30am – 11pmThursday11:30am – 12amFriday11:30am – 1amSaturday11:30am – 12amSunday11:30am – 9:30pmMenuSee the current food and drinks menu.FunctionsExplore spaces, capacities and the latest function pack.BookingsReserve a table and find our contact details.What's onGood reasons to come by.View what’s on Friday LiveFridays from 9pmLive Sport at MerchantLive + LoudFree WiFiEvery dayView what’s onEat, drink, saveDaily Deals.View all Daily Deals Heineken BucketsEverydayView all Daily DealsFunctions & celebrationsFunctions your way.From a table for a smaller get-together to a full venue takeover, The Merchant has flexible spaces, two bars, outdoor areas, screens +
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Restaurant |
| Name | The Merchant Pub Co. |
| Telephone | +6494441076 |
| Address | yes |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML www.merchantpub.co.nz/menu/ |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (BarOrPub, GeoCoordinates, PostalAddress, Restaurant) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [www.merchantpub.co.nz/bookings/](https://www.merchantpub.co.nz/bookings/) | booking | the business's own site |
| [booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheMerchant/291](https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheMerchant/291) | booking | resdiary, acting for the business |

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/merchantpub.co.nz) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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