The Direct Index
Report · Perth · scanned 2026-10-18

Straits Café

rendezvoushotels.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookCallWebsite

Ways to reach Straits Café directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

148 The Esplanade, 6019, Perth · +61892451000

Languages: English

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Straits Café'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.

57.4%

37.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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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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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Perth and named 57 places. Straits Café wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Straits Café compares

Where it stands

657 of 1,214 in Perth

Top 54% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Scotty's Bulk Meats C, Twin Fin C. Just below: 7 Heavens Pizza Pasta & Cakes C, Aroma Selera C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours47%no
Have an llms.txt35%yes

The top 10% are the 124 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

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Uncle Gino's Pizza pizza220 mAyes
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Oceans 6019 bar_and_grill234 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Straits Café in Perth

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Perth1,21456%35%57.4%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Perth

300 Acres Restaurant & Bar A 100% · Bivouac A 100% · Charco's The Flaming Chicken A 100% · Divine Indian Restaurant A 100% · Est Home of Torung Market A 100%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 28th of 1,214 in Perth, up from 657th.

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. 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

  2. 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

  3. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

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Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /en/contact-us: nothing new; booking page /en/hotels/orchard-rendezvous-hotel: booking link (other), phone

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 your builder.

Show the code to paste

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Straits Café",
  "url": "http://www.rendezvoushotels.com/perth/dining",
  "telephone": "+61892451000",
  "address": "148 The Esplanade, 6019, Perth",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -31.89417866,
    "longitude": 115.757136
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.rendezvoushotels.com/en/hotels/orchard-rendezvous-hotel",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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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 Straits Café

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/rendezvoushotels.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/perth/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.rendezvoushotels.com/en/hotels/orchard-rendezvous-hotel own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+61892451000

Stable links that count: /go/rendezvoushotels.com/book 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
no
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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /en/hotels/orchard-rendezvous-hotel: booking link (other), phone.

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/markdownno how
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 metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno