The Direct Index
Report · Manchester cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-15

Federal Cafe & Bar

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MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Federal Cafe & Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-15. Report a mistake

Nicholas Croft 9 M4 1EY Manchester · +44 425 0974

Nearby, also direct

Places near Federal Cafe & Bar 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 Federal Cafe & Bar's website. It can read what Federal Cafe & Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through federalcafe.5loyalty.com.

70.8%

46 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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site couldn't be read at all. new Structured data was incomplete; Ordering through an unrecognised third party.

Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for 3 questions, including "Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?" in Manchester cafes and bars, October 2026

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

QuestionNamed byAsked
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Gemini by name, without a link2026-10-24
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-24
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-10-24

Every place named in Manchester cafes and bars, 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.

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/federalcafe.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/federalcafe.co.uk.svg" alt="Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?” (Gemini, by name, without a link)
“Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Federal Cafe & Bar compares

Where it stands

307 of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars

Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Roaches Lock Inn B, The Stage Door B. Just below: Icon Bar B, MilJul Chai House B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML92%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)86%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours30%no
Have an llms.txt20%yes

The top 10% are the 134 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 13,925 sites48%24%70.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
MicroBar53 mByes
Trof68 mByes
Acai & the tribe70 mCno
Wolf at the Door76 mCyes
Foundry Project85 mAyes
The Washhouse90 mCyes
Cafe W106 mDyes
Jessie Heywoods Remarkable Gin & Food Emporium110 mFno
Abel Heywood111 mByes
Deano's Bar & Restaurant126 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Federal Cafe & Bar in Manchester cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars1,30949%24%70.8%
Sites built with Shopify in Manchester cafes and bars5360%40%70.8%

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Manchester cafes and bars

Cat Cafe Manchester A 88.8% · Vocation & Co. Manchester A 87.5% · Florence & Amelia's A 86.2% · Black Milk B 84.6% · Reserve Wines B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 307th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 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 Manchester 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 (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: nothing new; menu page /pages/menu: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on shopify.

Where to paste it on Shopify: Online Store, then the three-dot menu on the theme, then Edit code; paste it in the theme's layout file, inside the head. the official help page.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Federal Cafe & Bar",
  "url": "https://www.federalcafe.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 425 0974",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Nicholas Croft 9",
    "postalCode": "M4 1EY",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.4842432,
    "longitude": -2.2384454
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://federalcafe.co.uk/pages/menu"
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. 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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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/federalcafe.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/federalcafe.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Federal Cafe & Bar

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/federalcafe.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menufederalcafe.co.uk/pages/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 425 0974

Stable links that count: /go/federalcafe.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
yes
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
JSON-LD for the businessyes