Stellenbosch cafes and bars in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
12 cafe and bar and pub websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 11 of them could be read. 17% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 36% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 4 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
Our scan covered 12 websites of cafes and bars, finding 11 reachable and 1 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at accessibility, 2 sites, which is 17% of the scanned sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For menus, 6 present an HTML page, 1 provides a PDF, and 4 offer no menu or price list. Across the audited group, 4 sites take direct booking or ordering, 2 route through an unrecognised third party, 5 provide no booking or ordering path, and overall grades sit at 0 for A, 4 for B, 3 for C, 3 for D, and 2 for F, meaning 4 sites, or 33% of the scanned sites, earn an A or B together.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-02; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 4 |
| C | 3 |
| D | 3 |
| F | 2 |
| HTML page | 6 |
| none | 4 |
| 1 |
| none | 5 |
| own site | 4 |
| third party | 2 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 2 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 11 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 12 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.