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Domains, hours, closures and the day-to-day of a site that is already live.

Last published 9 Oct 2026 — the TableSpark team, London
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October 2026

2026-10 4 entries
FIG. 02 Running the site
Running the site 2026-10-05

See Who Visits Your Restaurant Website

A menu page nobody reaches sends no complaint, so the problem stays invisible for months. Visitor numbers, sources and top pages show where guests actually go.

FIG. 03 Running the site
Running the site 2026-10-05

Buy a Domain Name for Your Restaurant

A menu link on an address the restaurant does not control is a quiet risk. On Growth, buying its own name takes a search, an owner form and a card payment, with no DNS.

FIG. 04 Running the site
Running the site 2026-10-05

How to Take Table Orders on a Phone or Tablet

A handwritten order can miss a required choice, lose a kitchen note or sell a dish that has run out. Ring it at the table on the screen that holds its bill.

FIG. 05 Running the site
Running the site 2026-10-03

How to Change Your Restaurant's Booking Confirmation Email

Questions a confirmation never answers become calls during service and wrong assumptions at the door. Rewrite it, restyle it and send it in the restaurant's own name.

September 2026

2026-09 8 entries
FIG. 06 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-29

Seating a Walk-In Without Inventing a Booking First

When the only way onto the floor plan is a reservation, hosts invent one for every walk-in. The diary then carries wrong covers and bookings that never happened.

FIG. 07 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-29

Two Open Orders on One Table Is How a Bill Goes Unpaid

A table that pays for its mains can still owe for its starters. Once the next party sits down, that unpaid bill has no guest left to ask and no obvious owner.

FIG. 08 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-28

A Rota and Staff Roles on the Same Login Your Team Already Uses

When the week lives in a spreadsheet, a printout and a group chat, a swapped shift misses the person it moved and payroll turns into an argument about who worked what.

FIG. 09 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-27

Adding Christmas Day to the Website Without Calling Anyone

Overwriting Thursday closes every Thursday, and the reversal due on the 26th is the half nobody diarises — a dated override leaves the recurring week alone and expires by itself.

FIG. 10 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-27

The Host Stand Is Guessing Which Tables Are Free

A party walked to a table still on dessert, and a cleared table left empty a quarter of an hour: both are seating errors, and with a queue at the door the second costs a cover.

FIG. 11 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-22

Your Closure Has to Be Published in Two Places. It Usually Reaches One.

A website and a Business Profile are two records kept behind different doors, and exceptional dates have their own control — so a closure can reach one and leave the other wrong.

FIG. 12 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-21

Ask Who Updates the Website. In a Nine-Person Restaurant, Nobody Answers.

Four people can log in. Ask which of them is answerable for whether the page is wrong, and the room usually goes quiet.

FIG. 13 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-21

Your Website Says a £10 Deposit. The Till Just Took £25.

A booking page says ten pounds and the card takes twenty-five. In a dispute the record is the figure the guest was shown at booking, and reconciling it is necessary but not enough.

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