Federal Cafe & Bar
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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
Places near Federal Cafe & Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- MicroBar50 m
- Trof70 m
- Wolf at the Door80 m
- Foundry Project90 m
- The Washhouse90 m
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.
46 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.
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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 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.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book? | Gemini by name, without a link | 2026-10-24 |
| Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-24 |
| 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.
<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>
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)
How Federal Cafe & Bar compares
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 does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 86% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | yes |
The top 10% are the 134 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Shopify 13,925 sites | 48% | 24% | 70.8% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| MicroBar | 53 m | B | yes |
| Trof | 68 m | B | yes |
| Acai & the tribe | 70 m | C | no |
| Wolf at the Door | 76 m | C | yes |
| Foundry Project | 85 m | A | yes |
| The Washhouse | 90 m | C | yes |
| Cafe W | 106 m | D | yes |
| Jessie Heywoods Remarkable Gin & Food Emporium | 110 m | F | no |
| Abel Heywood | 111 m | B | yes |
| Deano's Bar & Restaurant | 126 m | C | yes |
Businesses like Federal Cafe & Bar in Manchester cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars | 1,309 | 49% | 24% | 70.8% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Manchester cafes and bars | 53 | 60% | 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.
What to fix first
- Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
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
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>
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.
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.
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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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.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | federalcafe.co.uk/pages/menu html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none 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.
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 |
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | yes |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | yes |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | yes |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | yes |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |