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Restaurant Resources
Practical guides for running a better restaurant online. Written for owners, checked against the source, and kept current.
Who Actually Owns Your Restaurant’s Website?
Your domain, your website account, your Google profile, your design and your photos can all be controlled by different people — and most owners find that out at the worst possible moment. A ten-minute audit of all five, why paying more does not mean owning more, what you genuinely do not need to own, and the one question worth asking every vendor you work with.
Read the guide Websites & orderingDo I Need a Website If I Use Toast?
Toast takes online orders, and Toast also sells full restaurant websites — which means “my Toast website” can mean three different things with three different answers. How to tell which product you are actually on, what an ordering page does and does not do, why you should own your domain even when somebody else hosts the site, and the cases where the honest answer is that you already have everything you need.
Read the guide Google & local searchWhy Isn’t My Restaurant Showing Up on Google Maps?
Missing from Maps, or showing up by name but never for “near me”? Those are two different problems with two different fixes, and most advice blurs them together. A troubleshooting guide: broken listings, suspensions, the “permanently closed” trap, stale menus that keep coming back, where your Order Online button really sends people, and what Google says actually decides local ranking.
Read the guide Google & local searchHow to Put Your Restaurant on Google
Claim it, set it up, and actually use it. How to list or claim your restaurant, get verified, and handle the parts owners usually never touch: the menu, where the Order Online button really goes, reservations, photos, posts, reviews and the performance data Google hands you for free.
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