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

2026-09 10 entries
FIG. 26 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-17

The Booking Button Guests Can't Read Against Your Own Hero Photo

A hero photograph's tone shifts across the frame, across the crop and across the light it is read in. When the booking action goes with it, the cover is lost in silence.

FIG. 27 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-16

How Many Taps From Your Homepage to a Booking? Count Them Tonight.

Click depth to a booking is one measurable number, countable in a minute. On a template-built site it is usually not one, and the friction never reaches the owner as a problem.

FIG. 28 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-16

Four Companies Answer Before Your Menu Does

Nobody ever removes a widget that has stopped being useful, so it keeps fetching from someone else's server on every page view, and the cost lands on a guest who quietly gives up.

FIG. 29 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-15

Opening a Second Site: New Website, or One More Page on the One You Have?

Signing a second lease forces a website decision most owners make in a fortnight, and the wrong structure leaves two menus quietly drifting apart for years.

FIG. 30 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-05

Is “free parking” legally binding? What a restaurant's car park page commits it to

Describing parking as “free” is automatically unfair where the guest ends up paying to park — and the cost of getting it wrong lands on the restaurant, not the car park operator.

FIG. 31 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-04

The CMA Can Disable or Fine a Restaurant's Website Without a Court Hearing

A regulator can now disable a restaurant's website and impose a penalty without a court case, while the diner's own right sits on a saving with a condition, not a date.

FIG. 32 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-04

The Legal Position When a Reseller Copies Your Menu Without Permission

A copied menu listing raises two different property-right tests and a separate, unsettled liability question — confusing them leaves the exposure with you.

FIG. 33 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-02

The accreditation badge that outlived its licence, and the UK rule that never asks if anyone noticed

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.

FIG. 34 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-02

Why a restaurant's own company name is no longer a trade mark defence — and what a rebrand cease-and-desist can force

Registering a company name checks nothing against the trade marks register, and the exposure a rebrand years in can trigger is real, not theoretical.

FIG. 35 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-02

The trader details a restaurant website must publish, and the three statutes behind them

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.

August 2026

2026-08 2 entries
FIG. 36 Building the website
Building the website 2026-08-30

The four-megabyte hero photograph, and the Core Web Vital it actually moves

Heavy restaurant photographs are routinely blamed for the wrong metric, and a fortnight of work is spent against the wrong number. The report that settles it is field data.

FIG. 37 Building the website
Building the website 2026-08-28

Where the right to work check belongs on a restaurant careers page

Ask one applicant about immigration status and not the others and the exposure flips from a capped civil penalty to tribunal compensation with no upper limit.

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