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Making South Africa cheaper, one bite at a time.

Eating out keeps getting more expensive, and the price is the one thing you can't see until you're at the table. Bites puts every price in one place, so you can choose before you go.

How it started

I'm Dylan Steiner. I'm 20, and I'm in first year at the University of Cape Town. Bites started with one overpriced meal and a simple question: why can't you see what food costs before you sit down?

Nobody had the prices, so I went and got them. I walked into about 200 Cape Town restaurants and photographed their menus, and I learned to code so I could build the app myself.

Bites launched in Cape Town on 2 October 2026. A month later it had 3 500 downloads and menus in most major South African cities. Today it holds more than 360 000 prices from over 3 900 restaurants.

Dylan Steiner, founder

What Bites stands for

  • Real prices only

    A price on Bites came off a real menu or a real bill. Bites never estimates one, and never makes one up.

  • Every price shows its age

    You can always see where a price came from and when it was last seen, so you know how far to trust it.

  • Free for the people looking

    Finding a cheaper meal shouldn't cost you anything.

  • Fair to restaurants

    Bites shows what a place charges and lets its owner answer for it. Any restaurant can claim its page and set its prices, free.

Where it's going

More restaurants running their own pages. Deals you pay for in the app and collect with a code. And, as the prices add up month after month, a picture of what eating out really costs in South Africa.

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