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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 279 fast food restaurants
Best fast food restaurants in Johannesburg
The 10 most notable fast food restaurants in Johannesburg, 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
Kfc Robin Acres
91 Bram Fischer Dr, Ferndale, Randburg, 2194
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.458, percentile 100 of 279
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2
Kfc Lyndhurst
44 Johannesburg Rd, Lyndhurst, Johannesburg
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.458, percentile 99.64 of 279
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3
Dakota Spur
Shop 335, Northgate Shopping Centre, Douglas Cres
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.457, percentile 99.28 of 279
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4
Kfc Bergbron
The Berg Shopping Centre, Bergbron dr & Gordon Road, Bergbron, Florida, 1709
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.457, percentile 98.92 of 279
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5
Wimpy Randridge Mall
Shop 13, John Voster Road, 14 Randridge Mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.457, percentile 98.56 of 279
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6
Wimpy Bram Fischer Shopping Centre
Shop 4, Bram Fischer Shopping Centre, Bram Fischer Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.457, percentile 98.2 of 279
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7
Wimpy Meadowdale Mall
Shop 35A, Meadowdale Mall, Van Riebeek Avenue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.457, percentile 97.84 of 279
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8
Wimpy Drive Thru BP Malibongwe Drive
Shop 102, BP Garage, Malibongwe Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.456, percentile 97.48 of 279
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9
Wimpy Northgate
Shop 65, Northgate Shopping Centre, Northumberland Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.456, percentile 97.12 of 279
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10
Wimpy Engen Fairlands Halaal
Engen Fairland Service Station, Beyers Naudé Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.456, percentile 96.76 of 279
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.
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).