Toronto restaurant sites that fill the room.

1. 01.

   Menu is a PDF

   PDFs do not load fast on mobile, do not work for screen readers, and Google cannot read them. A real HTML menu with sections, prices, and dietary tags ranks for dish-name searches and saves the customer a download on their phone.

2. 02.

   Hours are an image

   If your hours are baked into a graphic, Google cannot pull them, voice assistants cannot read them, and the customer searching 'is X open right now' does not get an answer. Plain text hours, with a structured-data block, fix it.

3. 03.

   Reservations behind an account wall

   Some reservation systems push the customer through account creation before they pick a time. A reservation flow that takes name, phone, party size, and time without a signup converts roughly three times as well.

• Should the menu be HTML or PDF?

  HTML, always. PDF as a downloadable backup if some of your guests prefer it. The HTML menu is what Google ranks, what voice assistants read, and what loads in under a second on a phone in a parking lot.
• What reservation system do you recommend?

  OpenTable for volume, Resy for editorial-leaning rooms, Tock for tasting-menu and ticketing, or a clean direct-book form with a phone-call fallback for small operations. The right answer depends on what your front-of-house team already knows.
• What about a separate page for delivery and takeout?

  If delivery and takeout are more than ten percent of revenue, yes. A focused page with the takeout menu, the in-house ordering flow if you have one, and a clear note about which third-party platforms you also use, keeps the search traffic on your site instead of pushing it into a marketplace that takes a cut.
• Why does the PDF menu matter so much?

  Because a PDF is unreadable on a phone and mostly invisible to search. Someone standing outside your door zooms and pans through a document designed for paper, gives up, and looks at the restaurant next door. A menu on a real page loads instantly, reads at phone size, and lets Google index every dish you serve, which is how people find you when they search for a specific thing to eat in your neighbourhood.
• Should we push people to our own ordering instead of the delivery apps?

  Where takeout is a real revenue line, yes. The apps are useful for discovery, but a customer who already searched for your restaurant by name is a customer you have earned, and routing them through an app gives away the margin on that order. We connect a direct path on your site to whatever ordering system you already use rather than building a new one from scratch.

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