Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
An old PDF, an allergen line that no longer matches the dish and a menu that is only a photo cost bookings and invite disputes. This guide covers what an online menu must show and how to keep it right.
A marketplace takes £8.40 of commission from a £28 order, and bringing delivery in-house adds registration, allergen, pricing and driver duties. Here are the laws and the sums.
A guest who forgot, a phone booking with no email and terms the confirmation never stated can each cost a table and start a dispute. This guide sets out what to send, when, and what it costs.
A full book can still lose covers: seats stay empty and walk-ins are turned away. Here is how table inventory, turn times and a live floor plan cut the cost, with the arithmetic.
A December diary can look full and still lose money to no-shows, festive prices that hide a charge and a rota drafted too late. This plan runs week by week from mid October to early January.
Software charged per site, per terminal and per head can multiply the cost of a second lease, while the guest list splits in two. Here is what to price and check before site two opens.
A listing can charge a restaurant for guests who were already coming, and the plan, fee and data terms sit on pages few owners read. This guide prices each route from the providers' own pages.
Published estimates of what it costs to open a UK restaurant vary enormously and cite no dataset. This guide builds a first-year budget line by line from official rates.
A delivery-only brand can lose 30% of each app order to fees and still face planning, hygiene, allergen and licensing rules. Here is the set-up, with the sums.
A party of sixteen that does not arrive leaves a long table dark and the kitchen over-prepped, at real cost. Here is how to handle deposits, pre-orders, service charge and allergens.
The Budget is on 28 October 2026, and the wage rate, VAT and rates detail are still unpublished. Owners risk repricing on lobbying headlines and missing the costs already fixed for 2027.
Staff with six months' service can claim unfair dismissal from 1 January 2027, and the cap on the compensatory award is removed. This analysis dates each step and prices one disputed dismissal for a 60-cover restaurant.
