The Direct Index
Report · Edmonton cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-04

The Buckingham

thebuckingham.ca is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Buckingham directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-04. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Sun 15:00–02:00

10439 Whyte Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T6E2A1 · +1-780-761-1002

Its menu mentions: vegan options

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Buckingham 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 Buckingham's website. It can read what The Buckingham offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

95.4%

62 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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.

Where it stands

How The Buckingham compares

Where it stands

4 of 68 in Edmonton cafes and bars

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sushi Café Madang A, The Bell in Scona Brewery A. Just below: BAIJIU A, O'Byrne’s Ice District A.

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 HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%yes
Have an llms.txt30%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using DoorDash Storefront 2,937 sites71%57%95.4%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Black Dog Freehouse30 mDno
Remedy Cafe indian70 mCno
Leo's Cafe coffee_shop, bagel, sandwich, pastry109 mAyes
The Pint125 mFno
The Next Act140 mCno
The Bell in Scona Brewery180 mAyes
Cha Island Tea Co.192 mFno
Blues on Whyte204 mByes
Yelo'd Ice Cream & Bake Shoppe coffee_shop, ice_cream, filipino218 mFno
The Woodrack Cafe coffee_shop226 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Buckingham in Edmonton cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Edmonton cafes and bars6856%31%95.4%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront in Edmonton cafes and bars470%75%95.4%
Findings

What to fix first

  1. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. 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 Edmonton cafes and bars. 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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · menu page /food-menu: nothing new; booking page /-reservations?source=pop_up&spot_id=499838&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations: 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.

· 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