# Spice & Spirits: Agent-Direct Score A (88.5%)

Site: http://www.Spicenspirits.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/spicenspirits.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Spice & Spirits is ready for agents.
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.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://web.dojo.app/create_booking/vendor/y0yjgcmFcqG4KT_yfMXa39aVg_U0eaiAe5yfiElpcJA_restaurant (through dojo acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.spicenspirits.co.uk/menus/
- Phone: +441617907008
- Hours, from spicenspirits.co.uk: Mon–Thu 12:00–22:30; Fri–Sat 12:00–23:00; Sun 12:00–22:30
- 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.
- Sizzling Spice (230 m): https://directindex.org/r/sizzlingspicelittlehulton.co.uk
- Pharoah's Pizza (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/pharoahs-pizza.co.uk
- Raz's (970 m): https://directindex.org/r/razs.co.uk
- Worsley Tandoori Takeaway (1.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/dilkashtakeaway.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+5 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **15 prices on the landing page, the middle one £9.95.** In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.00.

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# 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: /
```

## 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.

## Where it stands
152 of 2377 in Manchester. Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Phillip's (B, 46 m, https://directindex.org/r/phillipsfishandchips.online); Sizzling Spice (C, 228 m, https://directindex.org/r/sizzlingspicelittlehulton.co.uk); Sun Wah (D, 311 m, https://directindex.org/r/sunwahchinesem38.co.uk); Rainbow House (D, 865 m, https://directindex.org/r/gogiw.com); Xotica Curry House (C, 873 m, https://directindex.org/r/xoticacurry.co.uk); Pharoah's Pizza (A, 874 m, https://directindex.org/r/pharoahs-pizza.co.uk); Raz's (B, 970 m, https://directindex.org/r/razs.co.uk); Pizza Parlour (F, 1260 m, https://directindex.org/r/parlourpizza.co.uk); Star City (C, 1273 m, https://directindex.org/r/starcitytakeaway.co.uk); Worsley Tandoori Takeaway (C, 1775 m, https://directindex.org/r/dilkashtakeaway.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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 Manchester and named 142 places. Spice & Spirits wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using Dojo 72% (60% A or B, 293 sites); This site 88.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/spicenspirits.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Spice & Spirits in Manchester

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2377 | 55% | 33% | 88.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Manchester | 555 | 65% | 48% | 88.5% |
| Sites using Dojo in Manchester | 34 | 73% | 62% | 88.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using Dojo in Manchester | 18 | 72% | 61% | 88.5% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Dojo in Manchester: Capri (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/capriristorante.co.uk); La Roma (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/laromarestaurant.co.uk); Nabucco (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/nabuccorestaurant.co.uk); Piano bar & restaurant (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/pianorestaurantsale.co.uk); The China Room (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/thechinaroom.co.uk).

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 2,377 in Manchester.

## The direct record
What agents get for Spice & Spirits, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/spicenspirits.co.uk
- Book: https://web.dojo.app/create_booking/vendor/y0yjgcmFcqG4KT_yfMXa39aVg_U0eaiAe5yfiElpcJA_restaurant (vendor on own site: Dojo; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.spicenspirits.co.uk/menus/ (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Th,Su 12:00-22:30; Fr,Sa 12:00-23:00 (open now) (from spicenspirits.co.uk)
- Phone: +441617907008
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/spicenspirits.co.uk/book, https://directindex.org/go/spicenspirits.co.uk/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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: 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.

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 22.5 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/spicenspirits.co.uk
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/spicenspirits.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/spicenspirits.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=spicenspirits.co.uk&force=1