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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 115 fast food restaurants
Best fast food restaurants in Cape Town
The 10 most notable fast food restaurants in Cape Town, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Wimpy Engen 1 Plus Monte Vista
Convenience Centre, 11 Monte Vista Boulevard Engen 1 Plus
524 m from Monte Vista, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.424, percentile 100 of 115
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2
Kfc Long Street
Corner Long and Strandstreet
531 m from Cape Town railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.423, percentile 99.12 of 115
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3
Kfc Cape Town Cbd (Golden Acre)
Shop 86, 9 Adderley street, Golden Acre Shopping Centre
358 m from Cape Town railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.422, percentile 98.25 of 115
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4
Wimpy Howard Centre
Shop G49/G49 OA, Howard Shopping Centre, Forest Dr Service Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.422, percentile 97.37 of 115
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5
Wimpy V&A Waterfront
Shop 221A, Victoria Wharf Shopping Centre, Dock Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.422, percentile 96.49 of 115
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6
Wimpy Kenilworth Centre
Shop 11A, Kenilworth Centre, 1 Doncaster Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.421, percentile 95.61 of 115
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7
Wimpy Blue Route Mall
Shop G116, Blue Route Mall, 16 Tokai Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.421, percentile 94.74 of 115
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8
Steers Strand Street
Strand St
581 m from Cape Town railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.420, percentile 93.86 of 115
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9
Steers Montague Gardens
Shop 8, The Gallery, Koeberg Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.419, percentile 92.98 of 115
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10
Kfc Cape Town International Airport 1
Shop 311 Departure Hall, Mezzanine Level, Ct Int. Airport, Ct
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.419, percentile 92.11 of 115
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).