The Direct Index
Report · Galway cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-14

Mr Waffle

mrwaffle.ie is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Mr Waffle directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Fri 08:00–04:00 · Sat–Sun 09:00–04:00

University Road Galway · +353 91 520 747

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap) · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Mr Waffle 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 Mr Waffle's website. It can read what Mr Waffle offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

84.6%

55 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 Mr Waffle compares

Where it stands

19 of 115 in Galway cafes and bars

Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hole In The Wall B, M. Fitzgerald’s B. Just below: O'Briens Wine Off-Licence Galway B, Seven B.

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 HTML75%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)83%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours33%no
Have an llms.txt17%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 263,486 sites55%25%84.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Sliding Rock120 mFyes
SultUniGalway362 mFno
Starbucks380 mCyes
An Bhialann381 mFno
Corrib House Tearooms cake, coffee_shop564 mCno
The Wall Café598 mByes
Buddha Bar697 mCyes
Sally Long’s711 mCno
Brasserie on the Corner729 mCyes
Caribou734 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Mr Waffle in Galway cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Galway cafes and bars11558%36%84.6%
Sites built with WordPress in Galway cafes and bars4568%47%84.6%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 3rd of 115 in Galway cafes and bars, up from 19th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. 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 Galway 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.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /our-team/: nothing new; menu page /our-menu/: nothing new; booking page /contact-us/: 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