Is your restaurant website visible on Google?
A restaurant website can be live at a working link and still be missing from Google. One stray noindex tag, a blocked robots.txt or a menu locked inside a PDF, and guests searching your name or your cuisine land on a directory, a commission-charging marketplace or the restaurant down the road. Paste your address and see what Google can actually reach, read and act on.
Checks run in about ten seconds. We read the public page, robots.txt and sitemap; nothing is stored and nobody contacts you.
Fix the whole list in one setup, not one plugin at a time.
Every TableSpark restaurant website ships search-ready: a crawlable text menu, titles and descriptions, canonical addresses, an XML sitemap, robots controls, Restaurant structured data, mobile-first pages and managed Search Console verification. Plans start from £19 a month excluding VAT, with 0% TableSpark commission on bookings and orders.
This is a first look, not a full audit. The checker reads the page the way a crawler first receives it, without running JavaScript, and it checks the single address you entered. Google Search Console is the authority on what Google has indexed. No tool, including this one, can promise rankings or guarantee indexing.
Three questions Google answers before a guest ever sees your page.
Getting a page online is the easy part. Being discovered, understood and chosen depends on settings most owners never see, and a single wrong one can hide a restaurant that otherwise looks finished.
Can Google get to the page?
If the crawler is turned away, nothing else matters. This is where the most expensive mistakes hide, because the site looks perfectly normal to the owner.
- The page answers 200 and serves HTML
- HTTPS, with http:// redirecting to it
- robots.txt does not block Googlebot
- No noindex in the page or its headers
- A canonical that points at itself
- A sitemap Google can read
Can Google tell what you are?
A search engine has to work out that this is a restaurant, where it is, when it opens and what it serves. Structured data says it plainly instead of leaving it to guesswork.
- A title and description that name the cuisine and town
- Restaurant structured data with name and address
- Telephone, hours, cuisine and menu in that data
- Real text in the HTML, not only after scripts run
- One clear main heading and a declared language
Can a guest do something?
Most restaurant searches happen on a phone, a few hours or minutes before the meal. The page has to load fast, show the menu and offer a booking in a tap.
- A mobile viewport, so it is not a shrunken desktop page
- The menu as text, not only a PDF or a photo
- A booking link, and where it sends the guest
- Tap-to-call phone number
- How fast the server answers
What a hidden website costs a restaurant.
When your own site is missing or misunderstood, the searches still happen. They just end somewhere else.
Guests land on someone else's page
A search for your name, your cuisine or "restaurant near me" fills the first screen with directories, review sites and marketplaces. Each of them can list competitors beside you, and some will take a booking or an order for you and charge for it.
You pay for demand you already own
Guests who were looking for you specifically are the cheapest guests you will ever win. If your site does not answer that search, you end up paying commission or cover fees to reach people who already wanted to come.
The problem stays invisible
Nothing breaks on the day a noindex tag is left on or a robots rule blocks the menu. Bookings simply drift lower over months, and the cause is rarely traced back to a setting on the website.
Search-ready is part of the website, not an extra job.
General website builders will publish a page, and that is where many restaurant sites stop. The search configuration that makes the page discoverable is left to the owner, to a plugin, or to a technician billed by the hour.
TableSpark builds it in. Your menu, hours, address and booking options become structured restaurant content that search engines can read, on mobile-first pages, with the technical setup configured for you. TableSpark plans start from £19 a month excluding VAT, with 0% TableSpark commission on bookings and orders, so the guests your site wins stay yours.
- Crawlable text menu with sections and prices
- Titles and descriptions for every page
- Canonical addresses and clean redirects
- XML sitemap and robots controls
- Restaurant and LocalBusiness structured data
- Internal links between menu, booking and contact pages
- Mobile-first pages, and your own domain with managed SSL on Growth and Full
- Managed Search Console verification
- Direct bookings and ordering on your own site
- Guest records in your account, exportable as CSV
Questions about the checker.
Is the restaurant website checker free?+
Yes. There is no sign-up and no email address to give. Paste any restaurant website address and the results appear on the page. You can copy a link to the results and send it to whoever looks after your site.
Does a high score mean I will rank on Google?+
No. The score measures whether Google can reach, read and understand the page, and whether a guest can act on it. Those are the foundations. Where you rank also depends on your reviews, your Google Business Profile, links from other sites and how well the page matches what people search for. Nobody can guarantee indexing or rankings.
Why does my site look fine but score low?+
Most of what the checker reads is invisible in a browser: robots rules, meta tags, headers, canonical links and structured data. A page can look finished to you while telling search engines to ignore it, or while giving them almost no text to read before scripts run.
What does noindex mean, and how does it get there?+
A noindex directive tells search engines to leave the page out of their results. Builders and plugins often switch it on while a site is in draft, and it is easy to forget when the site goes live. It is the single most damaging setting the checker looks for, which is why it caps the score.
Is a PDF menu bad for SEO?+
A PDF can be indexed, but it is a weak menu for guests and for search. On a phone it has to download and zoom, it is rarely updated as quickly as the kitchen changes, and a search for a dish is much more likely to land on a menu written as text on a web page.
Do you store the address I check?+
The checker does not save your address or the results to a database, and it does not contact you. A short-lived cache keeps a result for about fifteen minutes so a repeat check loads instantly. It only reads public pages.
The checker says my site blocked it. What now?+
Some firewalls turn away automated visitors. Google's own crawler may be treated differently, so this is not necessarily a problem. Use the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console to see your page the way Google fetched it, or send us the address and we will look at it with you.
How does TableSpark handle all of this?+
Every TableSpark restaurant website ships with the search setup built in: a crawlable text menu, titles and descriptions, canonical addresses, an XML sitemap, robots controls, Restaurant structured data, internal links, mobile-first pages and managed Search Console verification. Plans start from £19 a month excluding VAT, with 0% TableSpark commission on bookings and orders.