# Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar: Agent-Direct Score A (92.3%)

Site: https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/dunesrestaurant.co.za
Scanned: 2026-10-17 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar. It can read what Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/reservations (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/menus
- Phone: +27 21 7901876

## What to fix first

- **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.

## Where it stands
5 of 134 in Cape Town. Top 4% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 86% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 43% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Piccolo Posticino Hout Bay (C, 290 m, https://directindex.org/r/posticino.co.za); Wharfside Grill Restaurant - Mariner's Wharf (C, 948 m, https://directindex.org/r/marinerswharf.co.za); Muriel's Munchies (D, 1001 m, https://directindex.org/r/murielsmunchies.co.za); Fish on the Rocks (C, 1429 m, https://directindex.org/r/fishontherocks.com); Massimo's (B, 3321 m, https://directindex.org/r/massimos.co.za); Quentins at Oakhurst (C, 3340 m, https://directindex.org/r/oakhurstbarn.com).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Asked 12 everyday questions about Cape Town, the assistants named 65 places; Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar was not among them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/cape-town/recommended


Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 49% (24% A or B, 10627 sites); This site 92.3%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/dunesrestaurant.co.za/agent-view

## Businesses like Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar in Cape Town

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town | 134 | 53% | 23% | 92.3% |
| Sites built with Wix in Cape Town | 12 | 41% | 8% | 92.3% |

The best of the sites built with Wix in Cape Town: The Mill & Press Cafe and Deli (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/millandpress.co.za); Reverie Social Table (C 63.1%, https://directindex.org/r/reverie.capetown); Banana Jam (D 54.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bananajamcafe.co.za); Vadivelu (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/vadivelu.co.za); NV-80 (D 47.7%, https://directindex.org/r/nv-80.co.za).

With the fix above (Almost no text without JavaScript) the score would be about 95.4%: 3rd of 134 in Cape Town, up from 5th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/dunesrestaurant.co.za
- Book: https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/reservations (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-17, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.dunesrestaurant.co.za/menus (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-22:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +27 21 7901876
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/dunesrestaurant.co.za/book, https://directindex.org/go/dunesrestaurant.co.za/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): yes
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /reservations: booking link (other), phone.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 23 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/dunesrestaurant.co.za
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/dunesrestaurant.co.za/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/dunesrestaurant.co.za/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=dunesrestaurant.co.za&force=1