Tuesday nights don't fill themselves.
Weekends take care of themselves. It's the Tuesdays that hurt: staff on the clock, kitchen hot, dining room half empty. Meanwhile, people two miles away are on their phones deciding where to eat right now.
Here's what usually decides it: what Google shows. And most restaurant websites give Google almost nothing to work with. The menu is a PDF or a photo that search engines and AI apps mostly can't read. The hours are wrong in one place. The private-dining room that could book two parties a month isn't mentioned anywhere.
TownPicked fixes all of it, and you never touch a website editor. The agents build; you approve from your phone between services. $79 a month, flat. That's about one decent table's check.
See what hungry people see when they Google you.
What TownPicked builds for a restaurant
1. A menu Google and AI apps can actually read
If your menu lives in a PDF or an image, it's invisible to most searches. The agents build a real menu page from it, dish names, descriptions, and prices, so "best birria tacos in [city]" or "gluten-free pizza near me" can actually find you. Change the menu? Send the new one; the agents update the page; you approve.
2. A page for every reason people book
Private dining. Catering. Brunch. Happy hour. The patio. Each one is a search that fills seats on slow nights ("private event space in [city]," "catering near me"). The agents build a proper page for each, with photos, capacity, and how to book, instead of one line buried on your homepage.
3. One version of the truth, everywhere
Wrong hours on a holiday cost you real tables and earn one-star reviews. The agents keep your site's hours, address, phone, and holiday schedules current and consistent, and written so AI apps get it right when someone asks "is [your restaurant] open right now" or "where should we eat tonight."
Your job: tap Approve
Every change is a plain-English card on your phone: what we want to change and why. Approve it, it goes live on a preview first. Skip it, it never runs. About 10 minutes a week, whenever you have them.
Questions restaurant owners ask
- We're already on the delivery apps. Isn't that enough?
- The apps bring orders, and they charge commission on every one, and they keep the customer relationship. Your own Google presence brings direct orders, bookings, and calls you keep 100% of. You want both, but only one of them is yours.
- Our menu changes all the time.
- Good. Send the new menu when it changes (photo, PDF, whatever you have) and the agents update the page for your approval. No more "the website menu is from last spring."
- Do I need professional photos first?
- No. We work with the photos you have, and your pages improve whenever you add better ones. Words and accuracy win a lot of searches on their own.
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