Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
Two restaurants, one company, one guest list — and a guest who never agreed to hear from the second name. The ICO's answer bites at the send; the risk starts with an assumption.
Before buying a platform to unify guest data, count the systems that actually disagree about who a guest is. For one site the merge is usually a merge of one, at a recurring cost.
A guest list fed by hand is only ever as current as the last upload — and the opt-out recorded on Monday is missing from Wednesday's send.
Guest notes kept one login away are lost to the rush. Three reachability questions, not a feature list, decide this purchase.
Before paying for a subscription to unify guest data, check what the booking, the order and the enquiry already create, and what the consent duty costs either way.
Reimbursement covers individuals, microenterprises and charities. On ONS bands two in five licensed restaurants are outside the ten-person limb — excluded from one route, not all.
The restaurant exclusion in the promotion rules is real, and it stops one regulation short of the free refill. What decides the risk is a fifty-employee headcount, not the sector.
Three nations put the duty on the drain itself; no England food waste rule was located, but discharging without the undertaker's consent is its own exposure.
Nobody signs for the staff: they transfer on completion with their service and their claims. The 28-day list, the repealed words printed beside it, and the £500-a-head risk.
From 1 October the illegal-working penalty reaches individual sub-contractors and online matching services. Which people in this restaurant are inside the scheme, line by line.
From 1 October 2026 the window for a tribunal dispute with a former member of staff doubles — but only where the 'relevant date' falls on or after that day.
A Saturday-only kitchen porter who calls in sick now costs money, and what it costs turns on a qualifying-days question most small restaurants have never answered in writing.
