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Last published 10 Oct 2026 — the TableSpark team, London
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October 2026

2026-10 4 entries
FIG. 14 Building the website
Building the website 2026-10-02

The Five Answers a Guest Wants Before They Arrive, Written in Your Own Words

Five arrival questions belong on the booking page: lateness, the door after nine, parking, dietary notice and the window table. Left unwritten, each costs a call.

FIG. 15 Building the website
Building the website 2026-10-02

Choosing a Takeaway Website Template: Lead With the Menu and the Phone

A takeaway site that leads with a booking form can lose the Friday caller who only wanted the menu and the number. The first screen decides whether they ring.

FIG. 16 Building the website
Building the website 2026-10-01

A Site Drafted From Your Menu Still Goes Live Under Your Name

A fast first draft still puts the restaurant's name on every line. Reading the facts, money, claims and voice before going live stops an unread sentence becoming a complaint.

FIG. 17 Building the website
Building the website 2026-10-01

A Walk-In Restaurant Still Needs a Website. Here Is Its Job

A walk-in restaurant can lose guests it never sees when its hours or menu online are stale. Its website exists to answer three questions before anyone sets off.

September 2026

2026-09 8 entries
FIG. 18 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-30

Match Your Restaurant Website's Colours to the Room Guests Walk Into

Guests often decide a restaurant website is the right place before they read a word. A mismatch between its colours and the sign on the door makes that check harder.

FIG. 19 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-27

Where the Review You Asked For Gets Answered

A review the restaurant asked for has nowhere of its own to land: no state, no owner, and no place on the site it pays for every month, so it stays invisible.

FIG. 20 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-27

The QR Code on Every Table Points at Someone Else's Domain

Google retired the goo.gl links its own telemetry had marked as quiet, and the same risk shape sits behind any table code routed through a shortener a restaurant does not own.

FIG. 21 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-24

When the Consent Banner and the Booking Button Want the Same Strip of Screen

A guest who cannot see the booking bar until the banner is dealt with, or who taps the wrong control because the two overlap, is a booking the restaurant never hears about.

FIG. 22 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-24

What a 'Free Template Refresh' Actually Resets

A free template refresh can quietly reset custom styling, footers and per-page headers. No URL changes, so nothing in a coverage report flags what will disappear.

FIG. 23 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-22

Your Hero Video Starts Spending the Guest's Data Before They Read a Dish Name

Autoplay overrules the page's own preload hint, so the download starts before the guest has asked. The lost booking never announces itself.

FIG. 24 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-21

The Booking Form That Falls Apart When a Guest Zooms In to Read It

A guest zooms the page in to read it and meets a booking form with a field lost behind the header and the submit button off the screen. The cover goes unrecorded.

FIG. 25 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-17

Where Does a Christmas Party Enquiry Land on Your Site?

A Christmas party enquiry worth more than forty covers can arrive, meet a booking widget capped at eight, and leave without a trace. The restaurant never learns what it lost.

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