The Canteen
canteenbristol.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Ways to reach The Canteen directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Stokes Croft 80 BS1 3QY Bristol · +44 117 923 2017
Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, allergens, a lunch or set menu · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)
Places near The Canteen that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Rice & Things190 m · jamaican
- Bianchis390 m · italian
- Papa John's460 m · pizza
- TGI Fridays530 m · american
- The Real Greek540 m · greek
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Canteen's website. It can read what The Canteen offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
55 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 Gemini for "A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today" in Bristol, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Bristol 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 |
|---|---|---|
| A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-02 |
Every place named in Bristol, 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.
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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:
“A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
How The Canteen compares
43 of 168 in Bristol
Top 26% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pizza on the Park B, Rice & Things B. Just below: Three Brothers Burgers B, Tonkotsu 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 | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 76% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 41% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 236,086 sites | 55% | 25% | 84.6% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Take Five Cafe indian | 40 m | F | no |
| Rice & Things jamaican | 193 m | B | yes |
| Bianchis italian | 390 m | C | yes |
| Papa John's pizza | 455 m | C | yes |
| TGI Fridays american | 529 m | B | yes |
| Wingstop wings | 538 m | F | no |
| itsu asian | 542 m | C | no |
| The Real Greek greek | 543 m | B | yes |
| Zizzi italian | 552 m | A | yes |
| PizzaExpress pizza | 559 m | A | yes |
Businesses like The Canteen in Bristol
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Bristol | 168 | 63% | 49% | 84.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Bristol | 52 | 72% | 63% | 84.6% |
After the top fixes
With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 168 in Bristol, up from 43rd.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, 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 Bristol. 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.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-the-canteen-bristol/: nothing new; menu page /food/: booking via tableagent; booking page /christmas-booking-form/: nothing new · What to paste
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