Vel Restaurant and Cafe
velspices.com.au is hard for agents to use.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Vel Restaurant and Cafe directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Clifton Grove 99 · +61397828611
Prices: 531 prices on the site, the middle one A$8.50
The website's grade
AI assistants can't open Vel Restaurant and Cafe's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.
30 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level
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.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
In Melbourne, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is A$18.00.
Every city compared →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 Melbourne and named 56 places. Vel Restaurant and Cafe wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Vel Restaurant and Cafe compares
2,711 of 4,078 in Melbourne
Top 66% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Touché Hombre D, Urchin Bar D. Just below: Yarrawood Cellar Door & Cafe D, Eat Fresh Pizza D.
| 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 | 91% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 27% | no |
The top 10% are the 412 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 3,402 sites | 46% | 24% | 46.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabari Saravanaa Bavan indian | 285 m | B | no |
| Royal Pickle Club bar_and_grill | 309 m | B | yes |
| Bellino Banquet -Buffet -Bar Wedding Venue indian | 382 m | F | no |
| Shanikas Carrum Downs italian | 1.5 km | C | yes |
| On-Im-Aloy thai | 1.8 km | A | yes |
| Uncle Drews Pizza and Ribs pizza | 1.8 km | C | no |
| Monta Verde Family Italian Restaurant italian | 1.9 km | C | no |
| Awesome Kebabs kebab | 2.0 km | C | no |
| Nasi thai | 2.3 km | F | no |
| Flying fish fish_and_chips | 3.4 km | F | no |
Businesses like Vel Restaurant and Cafe in Melbourne
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne | 4,078 | 56% | 33% | 46.2% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Melbourne | 82 | 49% | 28% | 46.2% |
The best of the sites built with Shopify in Melbourne
Over the Road Cafe, Restaurant & Bar A 86.2% · Aki Sushi B 84.6% · Blakeaway B 84.6% · IKKAI B 84.6% · Nick's Negozio B 84.6%
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 87th of 4,078 in Melbourne, up from 2711th.
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
- The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included +25 points
A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it
- 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
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Melbourne. 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.
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.
Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.
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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.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/velspices.com.au"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/velspices.com.au.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Vel Restaurant and Cafe
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/velspices.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | velspices.com.au/collections/preserve own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested |
| Order | velspices.com.au/pages/shipping-information own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +61397828611 |
Stable links that count: /go/velspices.com.au/book, /go/velspices.com.au/order 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 | 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 |
Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.
Not measured
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.
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |