Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
A spend-linked giveaway can be an unlicensed lottery with no ticket sold, and the one exemption for restaurants cannot be advertised online — a criminal risk, not a paperwork one.
A roofed, heated terrace can be legally smoke-free without anyone realising — risking a fixed penalty on the business and the staff member who missed it.
A lapsed footer badge needs no proof anyone was fooled — Schedule 20 skips that test, and paragraphs 3 and 4 open a real criminal exposure most advice never mentions.
The old HMRC enforcement powers were repealed on 7 April 2026; their replacement is only in force for specified purposes — a gap that carries real financial exposure.
Registering a company name checks nothing against the trade marks register, and the exposure a rebrand years in can trigger is real, not theoretical.
A wrong hours line carries real legal exposure — but the guest's damages route isn't the one the DMCCA's headline sections suggest.
Paying the invoice does not move copyright, a guest's face carries a removal right, and a stale dish photo carries real legal risk.
A false highchair or step-free claim and a disabled guest turned away are two separate legal risks, not one — confusing them costs a restaurant the right defence.
A defamatory review risks real bookings, but only one of five legal routes actually removes it — and none of them hand over who wrote it.
A consumer streaming subscription licenses none of it, and being found unlicensed before contact is priced worse than registering — a real cost, not a warning.
Three unconnected statutes each demand something different from a restaurant website, and only one of the three failures is a criminal offence — the other two cost money quietly.
Staff enforce the line the restaurant published, and that line becomes the evidence. What a site says about dogs carries more legal risk than what it leaves unwritten.
