What UK law and the regulators actually require of a restaurant that publishes.
A new inspection changes the official record while your website still quotes the old rating. Any guest can check that mismatch in seconds, on the phone in their hand.
Your deposit and cancellation terms may exist and still never reach the guest booking on a phone. That gap turns a routine cancellation into an argument.
A recall alert can name a product already prepped into tonight’s dishes. Stopping sale is only half the job, and the customer notice has its own content and channel rules.
A short VAT window can leave children's meal prices and treatment out of step across menus, websites and tills. Check the scope before service.
Five-star incentives can distort restaurant reviews, trigger platform action and raise consumer-law risk when staff blur asking with manipulation.
A borrowed food photo can trigger a rights dispute, takedown and urgent website rework when a restaurant cannot prove who authorised its use.
A withdrawn draft and moving timetable can send a restaurant towards the wrong tipping policy. Here is what applies now and what still awaits consultation.
A mandatory booking or delivery fee shown too late can turn a routine restaurant checkout into a refund exercise and a live CMA enforcement risk.
