Durban cafes and bars: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every cafe, bar and pub business in Durban that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 16 of 17 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 0 · B 1 · C 5 · D 2 · F 8
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 | Mugg & Bean On The Move muggandbean.co.za · coffee_shop | B 80% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | Unity unitybar.co.za | C 69.6% | own site | blocked | |
| 3 | Bootlegger Coffee Company bootlegger.coffee · coffee_shop | C 61.5% | HTML page | none | open |
| 4 | Cafe Sparrow cafesparrow.co.za | C 61.5% | none | open | |
| 5 | Tall Ships southernsun.com | C 56.3% | own site | open | |
| 6 | Coffee Cats Café spcadbn.org.za | C 55.4% | none | none | open |
| 7 | Woolworths woolworths.co.za · coffee_shop, breakfast, burger | D 50% | none | own site | open |
| 8 | Daily Dose Lagoon Drive dailydosecoffeeco.co.za · coffee_shop | D 46.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 9 | Bellézar bellezar.co.za | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 10 | Seattle Coffee Company seattlecoffeecompany.co.za · coffee_shop | F 37.8% | none | none | blocked |
| 11 | Durban Wings Club wingsclub.co.za | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 12 | Robsons Brewery robsonsrealbeer.com · burger, chicken, pizza | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 13 | Lineage Coffee Westville lineagecoffee.com · coffee, pastry | F 30.3% | none | none | blocked |
| 14 | Nü goreview.co.za · health_food | F 29.2% | none | marketplace | open |
| 15 | The Bean Green Coffee Company beangreen.co.za · coffee_shop | F 19.4% | none | none | blocked |
| 16 | The Pot & Kettle potandkettle.co.za | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
What the index found in Durban cafes and bars
| none | 9 |
| HTML page | 3 |
| 3 |
| none | 10 |
| own site | 4 |
| marketplace | 1 |
| Unknown | 8 |
| Wordpress | 4 |
| Shopify | 1 |
| Squarespace | 1 |
| Weebly | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 5 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 3 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 0 |
| Didn't answer in time | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
| No working site (dead address) | 1 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 15 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 16 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 1 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.
Durban cafes and bars, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 so far | 16 | 31% | 27% | 1 |
| October 2026 | 0 | 0% | 0% | 0 |
Durban cafes and bars, month by month: the chart
Durban, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the cafes and bars index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food | 369 | 184 | 32 | A 5 · B 9 · C 9 · D 2 · F 7 |
| cafes and bars this page | 116 | 22 | 16 | A 0 · B 1 · C 5 · D 2 · F 8 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 35 | 2 | 1 | A 0 · B 0 · C 0 · D 0 · F 1 |
| tours, attractions and museums | 18 | 3 | 2 | A 0 · B 1 · C 0 · D 1 · F 0 |
5 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Durban cafes and bars?
1 of 15 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 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.