The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Stellenbosch, ZA

Stellenbosch in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

31 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 30 of them could be read. 13% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 37% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 13 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.

31

sites scanned

13%

turn an AI crawler away

37%

book or order on their own domain

13

score A or B

For October 2026, 31 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 30 reachable and 1 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at overall performance, 11 websites earned an A or B together, which is 35% of the scanned sites, while 4 received an A, 7 a B, 13 a C, 3 a D, and 4 an F. For menus, 17 websites display them as an HTML page, 6 provide them as a PDF, and 7 show no menu or price list. Regarding customer actions, 11 sites take a direct booking or ordering on the business's own site, representing 37% of the reachable sites, while 1 offers this only through a marketplace, 7 work through an unrecognised third party, and 11 have no booking or ordering path.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-28; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
C11
B9
A4
D4
F3
Menu or price list
HTML page17
none7
PDF6
Direct booking or ordering
own site11
none11
third party7
marketplace1
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge4
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from the scanner1

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 30 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 31 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

Assistants

Where assistants sent people in October 2026

For the top-ranked businesses, each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order. Each business and question counts once, with the latest answer before the month ended.

AssistantOwn site or direct vendorMarketplaceDirectoryNowhere usefulAnswers
ChatGPT72%17%0%12%60
Gemini78%15%2%5%60

Asked the way people ask

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT97%0%0%3%64
Claude56%11%5%28%61
Gemini92%0%2%6%63
Method

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.