Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
A party-size field with no floor plan behind it confirms twelve covers the room cannot seat, and the mismatch surfaces on Saturday. A threshold decides; a cap turns the party away.
Google's Reservations End-to-End booking button is granted through the booking system behind a restaurant; a short-window calendar fails the bar and loses that one route.
The packaging fee on a restaurant's own order page was priced against a tax rate that has risen in four consecutive Aprils, and the cost is buried in the container price.
Google's own documentation rules out performance data for a self-added booking link, so the quickest route onto the profile is also the one where the numbers go missing.
Typing the restaurant's number into a Google post breaks a rule most owners have never read, and the button offered instead risks ringing out during service.
A table given back through a Google reservation can stay blocked on the floor plan: a cancellation reaching the booking partner need travel no further. The covers never look lost.
Visa's enhanced evidence route needs two earlier undisputed charges on the same card, so a first-time diner's deposit fails it on day one. The ordinary evidence route stays open.
A guest's photograph of an old chalkboard can be the first menu a diner sees. Here is how to check the Menu tab, and what Google's own rules say about removing a wrong one.
A clean, indexed site can still lose its own brand search to a directory page whose menu is as current as the last copy, and whose booking button may not be the restaurant's.
Reopening week is when the Google listing matters most, and exactly when the previous owner still controls it. The three-day clock, and the duplicate that is invisible.
A saved price edit settles one surface. Three others — Google's last-crawled copy, the Business Profile menu, a printed card — can still be showing a stale figure.
The ordering button on a restaurant's Google result can point at a page the owner never chose. Provider-supplied links arrive automatically, carrying a commission nobody priced.
