The Great Room Restaurant
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Ways to reach The Great Room Restaurant directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
16 Skipper St, BT1 2DY, Belfast · +442890234888
Places near The Great Room Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- 2 Taps Wine Bar50 m
- Six By Nico Belfast50 m · european
- Bunsen50 m · burger
- Pizza Punks70 m · pizza
- The National80 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Great Room Restaurant's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
52 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
Named by ChatGPT for "I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic" in Belfast, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Belfast and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic. | ChatGPT with a link to this site | 2026-11-14 |
Every place named in Belfast, question by question.
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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/themerchanthotel.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/themerchanthotel.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
How The Great Room Restaurant compares
68 of 429 in Belfast
Top 16% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Five Guys B, KFC B. Just below: The Morning Star B, Sakura B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 45% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 16% | no |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Taps Wine Bar | 50 m | B | yes |
| Six By Nico Belfast european | 53 m | B | yes |
| Bunsen burger | 53 m | B | yes |
| Pizza Punks pizza | 66 m | B | yes |
| The National | 76 m | B | yes |
| The Muddlers Club Restaurant | 77 m | B | yes |
| Maeme's Belfast | 102 m | B | yes |
| Pablos mexican | 123 m | D | no |
| Knead Pizza | 135 m | C | no |
| Ragin' Ramen Belfast japanese | 137 m | A | yes |
Businesses like The Great Room Restaurant in Belfast
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Belfast | 429 | 58% | 32% | 80% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 10th of 429 in Belfast, up from 68th.
What to fix first
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Belfast. 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 (LocalBusiness) address, phone
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
Builder: unknown · contact page /about: nothing new; booking page /convert/site/Merchant%20Hotel%20Belfast/en/results.php: phone · What to paste
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