The Direct Index
Report · Cape Town · scanned 2026-10-24

Scala Pasta Bar

scalapasta.co.za is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Scala Pasta Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake

81 Church St, 7780, Cape Town · +27214247204

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, a lunch or set menu

Nearby, also direct

Places near Scala Pasta Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Scala Pasta Bar's website. It can read what Scala Pasta Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through account.dineplan.com.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2022.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Cape Town, 67% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Cape Town and named 64 places. Scala Pasta Bar wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Scala Pasta Bar compares

Where it stands

198 of 813 in Cape Town

Top 24% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Pizza Vesuvio B, Sausage Saloon Tyger Valley B. Just below: Sticky Fingers BBQ B, Strolla B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt42%yes

The top 10% are the 85 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%72.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Le'mont_Wc821 mFno
Alhambra Restaurant885 mFno
Bello Monte Fisheries fish_and_chips904 mBno
Bin Rashied Pizza and Grill pizza1.1 kmDno
The Lounge On Bel ...1.4 kmDyes
Fisher’s Fried or Grilled1.7 kmByes
Altaf Chicken Tikka1.8 kmFno
Zaika Thai Restaurant thai1.9 kmFno
Tashreeqa's Restaurant2.1 kmCno
Jade Tavern chinese2.4 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Scala Pasta Bar in Cape Town

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town81353%26%72.3%
Sites built with WordPress in Cape Town42060%31%72.3%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Cape Town

Ferrymans Tavern A 100% · Quay Four A 98.5% · Baker & Bean Café, Bakery & Deli A 95.4% · Woodlands Eatery A 94.9% · The Farmhouse Somerset West A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 16th of 813 in Cape Town, up from 198th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Cape Town. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: wordpress · menu page /the-menu/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Scala Pasta Bar",
  "url": "http://scalapasta.co.za/",
  "telephone": "+27214247204",
  "address": "81 Church St, 7780, Cape Town",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -33.99293,
    "longitude": 18.50498
  }
}
</script>
Owners

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If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Scala Pasta Bar

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/scalapasta.co.za, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/cape-town/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuscalapasta.co.za/the-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+27214247204

Stable links that count: /go/scalapasta.co.za/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes