--- title: Stellenbosch in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch/2026-10 --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Numbers](https://directindex.org/stats)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) 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. These are the final numbers for the month. 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch) · [November 2026 →](https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch/2026-11) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/stellenbosch/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## How the sites stood at the end of October 2026 Grades | C | 11 | | B | 9 | | A | 4 | | D | 4 | | F | 3 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 17 | | none | 7 | | PDF | 6 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 11 | | none | 11 | | third party | 7 | | marketplace | 1 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 4 | | 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 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. | Assistant | Own site or direct vendor | Marketplace | Directory | Nowhere useful | Answers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | **72%** | 17% | 0% | 12% | 60 | | Gemini | **78%** | 15% | 2% | 5% | 60 | ### Asked the way people ask | Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | **97%** | 0% | 0% | 3% | 64 | | Claude | **56%** | 11% | 5% | 28% | 61 | | Gemini | **92%** | 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. 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