Bookings, menus, online ordering, search. Written by the people building the product, between services.
The Fair Work Agency can ask for hours and holiday records, and a restaurant that fails to produce them risks arrears plus a penalty of twice the amount. This analysis dates each power and prices one case.
A £0 or £49 ordering plan can still cost you in card rates, per-order fees and missing kitchen tools. Here is what UK systems charge over a year, read from their own pages on 13 October 2026.
A low entry price can hide booking caps, set-up fees, add-ons and per-cover charges that multiply the bill. Here is the twelve-month cost of each published structure, read on 13 October 2026.
A low headline price can hide send caps, extra text fees and a guest list split across three tools. This guide works out the twelve-month cost of each published UK option.
Headlines say the multiplier fell by about 12p in the pound. A restaurant that lost its 40% relief still faces a higher bill, phased in over three years, and the cost of that delay depends on its rateable value.
A fee that appears one screen too late now risks refunds and a penalty. This analysis follows one restaurant's prices across menu, booking page, checkout and bill, and says what is still untested.
Sick pay now costs money from the first day, tribunal claims run for six months and a harassment duty starts on 30 October 2026 for every employer. This analysis dates every change and costs it for a 45-cover restaurant.
A good-looking restaurant website can still miss the checks that get it found and booked. Brief, contract and accept a designer's work against five tests, not the mock-up.
Guest details scattered across a diary, a booking widget and a spreadsheet cost a restaurant its regulars and put its marketing at risk. This guide sets out what one guest record needs and what it costs.
A booth held for a party that never arrives is a lost Friday, and a per-cover booking fee grows with every busy night. Here is what a UK bar should check before it picks a reservation system.
A takeaway can hand 30% of an app order to the marketplace and still not own the customer. Here is what a UK takeaway website must carry, and what it costs over a year.
Most independent UK restaurant websites load and look finished, but in a 1,000-site audit the typical one had five problems flagged, and the gaps send guests and their money to directories and marketplaces.
