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Tips, product updates, and practical advice to help your restaurant get found online.

seoJun 10, 2026·4 min read

Apple turned Siri into a marketplace

Apple's 8 June WWDC keynote opened Siri to Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT and Grok — restaurants now need menu data every model reads.

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seoJun 8, 2026·4 min read

Restaurant menu schema finally has a public number

Google and Schema.org published the first usage dataset on 4 June — Menu schema sits a full bucket below LocalBusiness.

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seoJun 4, 2026·4 min read

Search Console now counts AI restaurant impressions

Google's 3 June Search Console update lets UK restaurants measure their AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions for the first time.

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seoMay 21, 2026·4 min read

AI Mode just changed engines

Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the default model in AI Mode — the surface booking UK restaurants runs on a new brain.

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seoMay 17, 2026·3 min read

Recommendation poisoning is now Google spam

Google's 15 May policy update names recommendation poisoning as spam — closing one route into AI Overviews.

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seoMay 14, 2026·4 min read

Bing now grades your schema against the page

Bing's May 2026 algorithm refresh weights schema-page alignment heavily — and ChatGPT Search and Copilot read restaurants through that trust score.

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seoMay 12, 2026·4 min read

Schema outlasts the rich result

Google ended FAQ rich results on 7 May, but the structured data underneath still feeds the assistants reading the page.

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seoMay 9, 2026·4 min read

AI assistants have a rating cutoff — and most restaurants miss it

Uberall's 2026 benchmark puts numbers on AI restaurant search: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini each draw a star-rating line below which most quick-service locations disappear.

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seoMay 1, 2026·4 min read

Claude now books Resy restaurants — and skips the rest

American Express plugged Resy into Claude on 23 April — every other US restaurant booking platform stays off this discovery surface.

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seoApr 14, 2026·3 min read

Google AI Mode now books UK restaurants — and skips your website to do it

Google activated agentic restaurant booking in AI Mode for UK users on 10 April, connecting to eight booking platforms and completing reservations without touching the restaurant's site.

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seoMar 31, 2026·4 min read

ChatGPT now knows where you are

OpenAI added GPS location sharing to ChatGPT on 26 March — and how it answers "restaurants near me" depends almost entirely on your menu data.

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seoFeb 7, 2026·4 min read

Why structured data matters for restaurant menus

Menu markup is the difference between turning up in voice search and AI recommendations, or not turning up at all.

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