Cairo: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every restaurant and fast food business in Cairo that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 30 of 38 distinct websites have been scanned.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)
of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 3 · B 4 · C 8 · D 5 · F 10
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
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| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Griix elmenus.com · greek | A 95.4% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | Sizzler steak house sizzleregypt.com · steak_house | A 87.7% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 3 | Mayyal Mayyal mayyalmayyal.com · sandwich, kebab | A 85.8% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 4 | Vittorio's vittorios.restaurant · italian | B 82.6% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 5 | What the crust whatthecrust.com · pizza | B 73.8% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 6 | Spectra spectrarestaurant.com | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 7 | Dragon House gotoeat.net · chinese, indian, thai | B 71.8% | HTML page | none | blocked |
| 8 | The Courtyard Maadi courtyardmaadi.com · pizza, burger, coffee_shop, italian, american, chicken | C 69.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 9 | CaiRoma cairomarestaurant.com · italian | C 68.8% | HTML page | none | blocked |
| 10 | Roma Pizza to Go - Nasr City Hay 7 roma2go.com · pizza | C 67.7% | HTML page | none | open |
| 11 | Fudruckers fuddruckers.com · burger, american | C 67.5% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 12 | ElMohamady elmohamadyegypt.com · kebab | C 64.6% | none | none | open |
| 13 | فينيز بيتزريا vinnyscairo.com · pizza | C 64.6% | none | none | open |
| 14 | Eldahan eldahan.com · kebab, arab | C 61.5% | none | open | |
| 15 | Lychee lycheeegypt.com · salad, breakfast, sandwich | C 60% | none | none | open |
| 16 | Samak Laban samaklabanstudio.com | D 49.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 17 | il Nilo Garden City ilnilo.com · italian | D 46.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 18 | Singarea Asian Market korillago.com · noodle | D 43.1% | none | none | open |
| 19 | ورد الشام site123.me · oriental, sandwich, breakfast, grill, chicken, diner, barbecue | D 43.1% | none | none | open |
| 20 | Roufy’s Maadi 231 roufys.com · burger | D 40% | none | none | open |
| 21 | Buffalo Burger - Cairo Festival City buffaloburger.com · burger | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 22 | مطعم خليها مشاوي فرع التجمع khalihamashawy.com · kebab, barbecue | F 38% | none | none | blocked |
| 23 | Butcher's Burger orderbutchersburger.com · burger, american | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 24 | Crave craveegypt.com | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 25 | Felfela felfelaegypt.com · turkish | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
Show all 30
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Griix griixeg.com · greek | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 27 | Kazaz kazazegypt.com · regional | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 28 | Two Broz pizza prepit.app · pizza | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 29 | Bazooka bazookaegy.com · fried | F 34.8% | HTML page | none | blocked |
| 30 | ماكدونالدز mcdonalds.eg · burger | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
How Cairo compares
No web address listed: 83% here, against a median of 44% across 165 indexes of restaurants and fast food. This is where the city stands out. It ranks 5 of 165.
Website facts come from 29 of the 30 scanned sites (97%). A row only shows once 300 pages and half of the scanned sites have been read, and four in five of the city's websites have been scanned. Every number, with its method and data →
Every count behind these rows
| HTML page | 14 |
| none | 14 |
| 1 |
| none | 22 |
| own site | 7 |
| Unknown | 20 |
| Wordpress | 6 |
| Godaddy | 1 |
| Site123 | 1 |
| Squarespace | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 7 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 1 |
| Didn't answer in time | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
| No working site (dead address) | 8 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 29 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 30 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 8 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.
Where assistants send people in Cairo
Of 44 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 98% link a business's own site or its booking software and 18% link a marketplace, most often Talabat. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 43 | 98% |
| Press, guides and forums | press and guides | 20 | 45% |
| Talabat | marketplace | 7 | 16% |
| elmenus.com | marketplace | 5 | 11% |
| egmenus.com | other site | 3 | 7% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Cairo
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 97% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 59 |
| Gemini | 73% | 0% | 0% | 27% | 51 |
Asked on 2026-10-22. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 22 questions, the assistants named 90 different places. This index has 577 businesses. Question by question →
Cairo, month by month
Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 so far | 30 | 23% | 24% | 7 |
Cairo, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the restaurants and fast food index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food this page | 577 | 67 | 30 | A 3 · B 4 · C 8 · D 5 · F 10 |
| cafes and bars | 265 | 25 | 15 | A 0 · B 4 · C 8 · D 1 · F 2 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 39 | 1 | 1 | A 0 · B 0 · C 0 · D 0 · F 1 |
| tours, attractions and museums | 59 | 13 | 10 | A 0 · B 1 · C 3 · D 2 · F 4 |
29 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Cairo?
1 of 29 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: MCP server card 1. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.