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

Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London

palmcourtlondon.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

The Park Lane, W1J 7BX, London · 020 7499 6321

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, allergens

Nearby, also direct

Places near Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London's website. It can read what Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London offers. To book or order, it is sent to TheFork, a marketplace.

66.2%

43 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.

The assistants were asked 23 everyday questions about London and named 108 places. Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London compares

Where it stands

3,672 of 8,985 in London

Top 41% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: 1 Lombard Street C, Afternoon Tea at Grosvenor House C. Just below: Al Dente C, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML87%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours64%yes
Have an llms.txt37%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using TheFork 2,102 sites65%40%66.2%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Afternoon Tea at the Sheraton Grand London in London

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London8,98554%36%66.2%
Sites using TheFork in London6371%59%66.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Booking only through thefork; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 8,985 in London.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking only through thefork +12 points

    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

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Requests as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. 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 London. 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.
  • Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • TheFork works with agents through its partners TheFork's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; TheFork integrated OpenAI's Operator agent for UK bookings in February 2025 and is a named Google AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://itbrief.co.uk/story/thefork-integrates-openai-s-operator-for-uk-bookings. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: unknown · contact page /about-us: booking via thefork; menu page /our-menus: 54 menu items in JSON-LD · What to paste

Owners

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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.

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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