Duck & Waffle
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Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Duck & Waffle directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
St James Crescent 400-402 EH1 3AE Edinburgh · +441312022700
Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, a lunch or set menu
Places near Duck & Waffle that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Wingstop10 m · wings
- Thai Express Kitchen20 m · thai
- Oakberry Açai30 m
- El Perro Negro40 m · burger
- The Newsroom40 m · bar and grill
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Duck & Waffle's website. It can read what Duck & Waffle offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
48 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 "Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?" in Edinburgh, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Edinburgh and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-01 |
Every place named in Edinburgh, 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:
“Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
How Duck & Waffle compares
244 of 896 in Edinburgh
Top 27% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Domino's B, Dublin Street Social B. Just below: Dumplings of China B, Eatalias B.
| 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 | 74% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | no |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| itsu asian | 10 m | C | no |
| Wingstop wings | 11 m | B | yes |
| Thai Express Kitchen thai | 15 m | B | yes |
| Oakberry Açai | 28 m | C | yes |
| The Alchemist regional | 33 m | F | no |
| El Perro Negro burger | 42 m | B | yes |
| The Newsroom bar_and_grill | 44 m | A | yes |
| Hongfu Noodle chinese | 62 m | D | no |
| Society Bar & Kitchen | 66 m | C | yes |
| Ka Pao | 72 m | C | yes |
Businesses like Duck & Waffle in Edinburgh
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh | 896 | 56% | 40% | 73.8% |
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 9th of 896 in Edinburgh, up from 244th.
This site appears in 2 cities (2 places on duckandwaffle.com). All the cities it's in →
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +14 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. 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
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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.
- 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: unknown · menu page /edinburgh/menu/: nothing new; booking page /reservations/: booking via sevenrooms, WhatsApp · What to paste
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