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

Spice & Spirits

spicenspirits.co.uk is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Spice & Spirits directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Through dojo acting for the business. Report a mistake

+441617907008

Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes, a children's menu

Prices: 15 prices on the site, the middle one £9.95 · WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Spice & Spirits 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 Spice & Spirits's website. It can read what Spice & Spirits offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Dojo.

88.5%

57.5 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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

15 prices on the landing page, the middle one £9.95.

In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.70.

Every city compared →
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 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 90 places. Spice & Spirits wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Spice & Spirits compares

Where it stands

151 of 2,378 in Manchester

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Kim's Kitchen A, The Cut & Craft Manchester A. Just below: Babbo Cucina Italiana A, Aqua Restaurant A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%yes
Have an llms.txt28%yes

The top 10% are the 243 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites57%28%88.5%
Sites using Dojo 71 sites68%45%88.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Phillip's fish_and_chips46 mBno
Sizzling Spice indian228 mCyes
Sun Wah311 mDno
Rainbow House865 mDno
Xotica Curry House indian873 mCno
Pharoah's Pizza874 mAyes
Raz's970 mByes
Pizza Parlour pizza, burger, kebab1.3 kmFno
Star City chinese1.3 kmCno
Krave Desserts Bolton1.6 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Spice & Spirits in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,37855%32%88.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Manchester54865%48%88.5%
Sites using Dojo in Manchester3373%64%88.5%
Sites built with WordPress and using Dojo in Manchester1872%61%88.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Dojo in Manchester

Capri A 86.2% · La Roma A 86.2% · Nabucco A 86.2% · Piano bar & restaurant A 86.2% · The China Room A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Ordering through an unrecognised third party; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ChatGPT-User), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 2,378 in Manchester.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +5 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ChatGPT-User +2.5 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. 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 Manchester. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (FoodEstablishment) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking through dojo on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /menus/: menu schema

Fix kit

What to paste

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

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. 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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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score A

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/spicenspirits.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/spicenspirits.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Spice & Spirits

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/spicenspirits.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookweb.dojo.app/create_booking/vendor/y0yjgcmFcqG4KT_yfMXa39aVg vendor on own site: Dojofound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.spicenspirits.co.uk/menus/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+441617907008

Stable links that count: /go/spicenspirits.co.uk/book, /go/spicenspirits.co.uk/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.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Vendor terms for agents
Dojo, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About Dojo · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menus/: menu schema.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtyes
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 businessyes