The Direct Index
Report · Manchester cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Richmond Tea Rooms

richmondtearooms.com is mostly ready for agents.

Book directly: richmondtearooms.com/reservation/ on the business's own site · Menu: richmondtearooms.com/menuv2/

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B
78.8%

63 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-14: completed, an agent can reach the step before confirming. A WooCommerce widget renders on the page and can be used without a login.

Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Richmond Tea Rooms",
  "url": "https://www.richmondtearooms.com/",
  "telephone": "+44 161 697 4474",
  "email": "reservations@richmondtearooms.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Richmond Street 22",
    "postalCode": "M1 3WF",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.4764757,
    "longitude": -2.2365213
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr,Su 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-20:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "19:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "tea"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://richmondtearooms.com/reservation/",
  "hasMenu": "https://richmondtearooms.com/menuv2/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://richmondtearooms.com/reservation/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Richmond Tea Rooms

> cafe or coffee shop (tea) in Richmond Street 22 M1 3WF Manchester, Manchester cafes and bars. Phone +44 161 697 4474.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://richmondtearooms.com/reservation/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://richmondtearooms.com/menuv2/

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr,Su 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-20:00

## About

- Website: https://www.richmondtearooms.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

25 of 235 in Manchester cafes and bars

Top 11% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Impossible Manchester B, Rain Bar B. Just below: The Carters Arms B, The Elizabethan B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain96%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)83%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours33%no
Have an llms.txt21%no

The top tenth is the 24 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites57%26%78.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Area20 mFno
The Rem Bar76 mFno
Via83 mAyes
The Molly House tapas102 mCyes
The Eagle137 mCno
The Brewers164 mBno
Velvet186 mCno
Happy Lemon bubble_tea269 mDno
Heytea bubble_tea299 mFno
Piccadilly Central304 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Richmond Tea Rooms in Manchester cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Manchester cafes and bars23540%20%78.8%
Built with WordPress in Manchester cafes and bars5961%34%78.8%

The best of Built with WordPress in Manchester cafes and bars

Goodtime Games A 96.3% · Arcane Bar A 88.8% · The Aviator A 88.8% · The Wild Alderman A 88.8% · The Ford Madox Brown A 86.2%

The climb

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 96.3%: 2nd of 235 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 25th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Richmond Tea Rooms

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/richmondtearooms.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookrichmondtearooms.com/reservation/ own siteverified direct, 2026-10-14
Ordernone on record
Menurichmondtearooms.com/menuv2/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Fr,Su 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-20:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+44 161 697 4474

Stable links that count: /go/richmondtearooms.com/book, /go/richmondtearooms.com/menu 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.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
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
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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