The Direct Index
Report · Mumbai · scanned 2026-11-05

The Bombay Canteen

thebombaycanteen.com is partly visible to agents.

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MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Bombay Canteen directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-05. Report a mistake

+9108880802424

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Bombay Canteen 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 The Bombay Canteen's website. It can read what The Bombay Canteen offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

66.2%

43 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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for 3 questions, including "Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online" in Mumbai, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Mumbai and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 3 answers, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-05
A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-05
Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-05

Every place named in Mumbai, question by question.

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Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.” (Gemini, by name, without a link)
“A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Somewhere good that's actually open on Monday evening, book a table.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Bombay Canteen compares

Where it stands

169 of 865 in Mumbai

Top 20% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Soul Restaurant C, Sumangal Family Restaurant C. Just below: The Front Yard C, Indian Terrain C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain94%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML72%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)90%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours24%no
Have an llms.txt38%yes

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 13,925 sites48%24%66.2%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Bombay Canteen in Mumbai

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Mumbai86542%16%66.2%
Sites built with Shopify in Mumbai2860%18%66.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 8th of 865 in Mumbai, up from 169th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. 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 Mumbai. 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 (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: shopify · contact page /pages/contact: phone; menu page /pages/menus: nothing new · 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.

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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

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