Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
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.
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.
