Durban: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every restaurant and fast food business in Durban that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 32 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 5 · B 9 · C 9 · D 2 · F 7
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 20 places you can book or order from directly →
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steers Drive Thru steers.co.za · burger | A 100% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | Wimpy wimpy.co.za · burger | A 100% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 3 | Fishaways fishaways.co.za · fish_and_chips | A 95.4% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 4 | RocoMamas rocomamas.com · burger | A 90.8% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 5 | Debonairs Pizza debonairspizza.co.za · pizza | A 90% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 6 | Lupa Osteria lupa.co.za · italian, pasta, pizza | B 84.6% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 7 | Hungry Lion hungrylion.co.za · chicken | B 81.1% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 8 | Pizzaboyz South Beach pizzaboyz.co.za · pizza | B 80% | own site | open | |
| 9 | The Black Rabbit theblackrabbit.co.za · italian, pizza, pasta, grill, seafood, dessert | B 80% | HTML page | third party | open |
| 10 | John Dory's johndorys.com · seafood | B 73.8% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 11 | Pizza Perfect pizzaperfect.co.za · pizza | B 73.8% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 12 | La Pizza Pazza lapizzapazza.co.za · Pizza, Pasta | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 13 | Max's Lifestyle maxslifestyle.co.za · african, barbecue, indian | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 14 | Swaadisht Foods swaadishtfoods.co.za · indian, chinese, dessert, breakfast, burger | B 72.3% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 15 | 1904 1904.co.za | C 68.8% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 16 | Kauai kauai.co.za | C 68.6% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 17 | Roma Revolving Restaurant roma.co.za · Italian cuisine. | C 67.7% | own site | open | |
| 18 | Ocean Basket oceanbasket.com · seafood | C 65.1% | HTML page | third party | blocked |
| 19 | Soaring Falcon Spur spursteakranches.com · steak_house | C 63.5% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 20 | Cafe Umfula gibaland.co.za · pizza, burger, coffee_shop, italian, sandwich, chicken, ice_cream, fish_and_chips | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 21 | Adega adega.co.za | C 61.5% | HTML page | none | open |
| 22 | Lingela Restaurant southernsun.com | C 56.3% | own site | open | |
| 23 | McDonald's mcdonalds.co.za · burger | C 55.4% | HTML page | third party | open |
| 24 | Panaji's panaji.co.za · indian | D 50.8% | elsewhere | third party | open |
| 25 | Pedros pedroschicken.co.za · african, chicken, portuguese | D 46.3% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
Show all 32
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Roman's Pizza romanspizza.co.za · pizza | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 27 | Burger King burgerking.co.za · burger | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 28 | Chicken Licken chickenlicken.co.za · chicken | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 29 | KFC kfc.co.za · chicken | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 30 | Nando's nandos.co.za · chicken, portuguese | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 31 | Spice Restaurant spicerestaurant.co.za | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 32 | Republik republic.co.za | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
What the index found in Durban
| HTML page | 20 |
| none | 7 |
| 3 | |
| elsewhere | 1 |
| own site | 20 |
| none | 7 |
| third party | 4 |
| Unknown | 15 |
| Wordpress | 15 |
| Squarespace | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 6 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 1 |
| Didn't answer in time | 1 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
| No working site (dead address) | 6 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 31 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 32 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 6 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 Durban
Of 44 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 98% link a business's own site or its booking software and 34% link a marketplace, most often dineplan.com. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 43 | 98% |
| dineplan.com | marketplace | 10 | 23% |
| Press, guides and forums | press and guides | 10 | 23% |
| mrd.com | other site | 6 | 14% |
| Uber Eats | marketplace | 6 | 14% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Durban
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 | 95% | 0% | 2% | 4% | 57 |
| Gemini | 85% | 0% | 0% | 15% | 62 |
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 78 different places. This index has 369 businesses. Question by question →
Durban, 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 | 32 | 19% | 65% | 14 |
Durban, 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 | 369 | 184 | 32 | A 5 · B 9 · C 9 · D 2 · F 7 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 35 | 2 | 1 | A 0 · B 0 · C 0 · D 0 · F 1 |
146 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Durban?
0 of 31 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through. 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.