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

Empire

royalstationhotel.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

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

Neville Street NE1 5DH Newcastle upon Tyne · 0191 232 0781

Nearby, also direct

Places near Empire 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 Empire's website. What Empire offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Calendly.

78.5%

51 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.

The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Newcastle upon Tyne and named 84 places. Empire wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Empire compares

Where it stands

104 of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne

Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Real Greek B, Dakwala Bombay Canteen B. Just below: Geordie Bangers B, Prima 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 HTML79%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours62%no
Have an llms.txt21%yes

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 270,003 sites55%25%78.5%
Sites using Calendly 1,342 sites63%34%78.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Central Oven + Shaker pizza63 mFno
The Hudson seafood84 mByes
Zapatista Burrito Bar mexican90 mCyes
Chickalicious chicken102 mDno
Insieme italian138 mAyes
Subway sandwich140 mCyes
Pinocchio italian143 mAyes
Gunner Tavern143 mCno
The Camera Shop154 mAyes
Vegan Festival Uk vegan167 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Empire in Newcastle upon Tyne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Newcastle upon Tyne45758%40%78.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Newcastle upon Tyne12067%49%78.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 45th of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne, up from 104th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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. 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 (Hotel) address, phone
  • Booking through calendly on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact-us/: phone · 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