Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
Google's new AI report lists impressions, pages, countries, devices and dates — an impressions instrument, not a traffic one, and a missing click figure is no failure.
A dish photograph set as a CSS background is excluded from image indexing outright, however sharp it is, and the decisions that settle the rest are made when the site is built.
The cancellation rights a shopper takes for granted stop at the business name on the contract, which is why the exit-fee clause costs more to ignore than the sales page.
With some ordering arrangements a restaurant's takings sit with a payment firm, outside FSCS cover; firms that failed between 2018 and 2023 left average shortfalls of 65%.
Signing a second lease forces a website decision most owners make in a fortnight, and the wrong structure leaves two menus quietly drifting apart for years.
Nominet's transfer code goes to the registrant of record, not whoever pays the renewal. If that is a former web designer, the delay lands on the restaurant mid-switch.
Most restaurants pick a loyalty mechanic on what it costs to print, not on what guests say they want, and the published ranking puts stamp cards fifth of ten.
A new duty obliges Google to rank organic results, and AI answers, on objective criteria. It sets the rule of the gate, not the winner, and a site's missing signals still cost it.
Updating prices, photos and hours on the restaurant's own site arrives without an invoice, so the time counts as nothing. The April 2026 wage floor gives it a number.
An outdated address survives on surfaces that refresh at different speeds; the one Google states a window for usually takes about ten minutes, but in some cases up to thirty days.
The regulatory contactless ceiling was removed in March 2026; the number is now each provider's decision. Most are expected not to move it, and no restaurant is told either way.
Google's “Join waitlist” button appears on a restaurant profile only after a third-party provider has been registered. Until then the Friday overflow is simply lost.
