Guides
Practical guides on websites, email, security and AI automation, picked for restaurants & cafés.
A step-by-step workflow for restaurant no-shows: confirmations, reminders, fair deposits and card holds, waitlist offers and allergy notes that reach the pass.
Emails landing in spam? Learn the four real causes: missing authentication, poor sender reputation, risky content and dirty lists, plus the fixes for each one.
Which schema markup still earns rich results in 2026: Organization, LocalBusiness and Article examples, plus what happened to FAQ and HowTo rich results.
Cut image weight without losing quality: when to use WebP or AVIF, how to write srcset and sizes, when to lazy load, and how to compress sensibly.
Holiday entitlement for part time workers explained: 5.6 weeks pro rata, hours-based leave, the 12.07% rule for irregular hours, bank holidays and leavers.
A practical guide to restaurant automation for UK venues: bookings, no-shows, rotas, supplier orders and tips, with staff confirming every allergen answer.
A practical restaurant website checklist for UK venues: HTML menus, allergen info, prices, booking, Google Business Profile, Restaurant schema and QR menus.
A practical Open Graph tags guide: set og:title, og:image and twitter:card so your links look right on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack and X.
Website slow on mobile but fast on desktop? Phones have slower CPUs and higher-latency networks, so heavy scripts and big images hurt more. Here is the fix.
Rank in local search in the UK: complete your Google Business Profile, keep name, address and phone consistent, earn genuine reviews and build local pages.
Free checklist (PDF)
29 practical checks for restaurants & cafés: website speed and mobile, Google Business Profile and reviews, email security, booking and enquiry handling, and AI search visibility. Each one says why it matters, and many link to a free tool that checks it.
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