Domains, hours, closures and the day-to-day of a site that is already live.
When the only way onto the floor plan is a reservation, hosts invent one for every walk-in. The diary then carries wrong covers and bookings that never happened.
A table that pays for its mains can still owe for its starters. Once the next party sits down, that unpaid bill has no guest left to ask and no obvious owner.
Overwriting Thursday closes every Thursday, and the reversal due on the 26th is the half nobody diarises — a dated override leaves the recurring week alone and expires by itself.
A party walked to a table still on dessert, and a cleared table left empty a quarter of an hour: both are seating errors, and with a queue at the door the second costs a cover.
A website and a Business Profile are two records kept behind different doors, and exceptional dates have their own control — so a closure can reach one and leave the other wrong.
Four people can log in. Ask which of them is answerable for whether the page is wrong, and the room usually goes quiet.
A booking page says ten pounds and the card takes twenty-five. In a dispute the record is the figure the guest was shown at booking, and reconciling it is necessary but not enough.
Same premises, same kitchen, a new name — and a dozen guest-facing surfaces still stale with the old one. The order they change in decides whether guests find the restaurant.
Website, social and ordering logins seldom reach a restaurant's offboarding checklist — so unless someone revokes them, a former manager can still publish a wrong price.
Nominet's transfer code goes to the registrant of record, not whoever pays the renewal. If that is a former web designer, the delay lands on the restaurant mid-switch.
Nobody signs for the staff: they transfer on completion with their service and their claims. The 28-day list, the repealed words printed beside it, and the £500-a-head risk.
Waste tracking goes digital on 1 October 2026 in England and Wales, 1 January 2027 in Scotland. The producer is missing from the record, but not from the risk.
