Users praise Google Maps contributors for solving the problem
5 Today 8:10 AM · 15h ago · 57 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 5
One commenter notes that people adding menus to Google Maps entries are heroes because they bypass restaurant websites entirely, saving time and friction.
“This is what makes anyone who adds menus to Google maps entries a hero to me. You're saving me time and scrolling and I wish you a world of green lights and good gut health.”
orbette.bsky.socialMark Watson Comedian
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Even better if it’s a PDF of a photograph of a photocopy of said menu, taken with a 15 year old digital camera by candlelight during an earthquake.
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Oh, and don’t code a little help bot to pop up in the lower right of the screen so I can’t click OK and place an order. I had to switch to my iPad and rotate the screen until there was a moment where the bot hadn’t yet popped up.
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And if your menu is tied to online ordering, don’t make it impossible to access when you’re closed.
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The number of social media posts advertising in person workshops and sales from the bricks and mortar shop that don't specify where the business is. It's the World Wide Web Janice, not the Sudbury on Sea Web. Don't alienate potential customers by getting their hopes up for naught...
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Website Rule 1. Two clicks is one too many.
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Also show where it actually is. If I have to search for an address, or the hero image is abstract food closeups, rather than a recognisable building, I just close the page.
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I mentioned to the owner of a restaurant that people of my age might struggle to read the menu. His response - "well, I'm a lot younger than you, and I can't read it either".
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Slightly niche complaint: my daughter is coeliac so, if you do put your menu on your website but can't be arsed to include allergen information, we can't be arsed to come to your restaurant.
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We live in Spain and the amount of restaurants that dont have the address on their website and marketing, this really grates with this retired Mac operator.
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Wait until you try finding the allergy menu. Thanks, hipster restaurant, I didn't expect a full-on Zelda side quest today. Solved three shrine puzzles and opened the chest to triumphant music. It's a PDF. Last updated 2019.
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Menu and LOCATION. YOU know where the restaurant is. *I* do not.
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And prices on the menu too. CURRENT prices.
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Also please don’t hide the location of the restaurant deep within a labyrinthine set of linked pages you have to click about for ages. Does my head in!
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And the link to the ‘menu’ leads to the menu, not to the ‘order now’ page
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💯 + Address and hours - please make those easy to find, too!
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Restaurants in general are taking themselves way too seriously. They all behave like they're in a bad reality TV show competition. Less focus on the evolving philosophy and more on plating a decent meal would be wonderful. Also, I'm not scanning or downloading anything to order food... ever.
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Also, city, state and street address. I’ve seen a lot of restaurant instagrams and websites that don’t even tell you where the place is. Pretty clueless. well, there’s also that IG knows where I live but advertise to me small restaurants 800 miles away…
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And the address & hours of operation! So many times I’ve looked for hours of operation & they aren’t on the website. If I have to do a specific search for relevant info, I begin to lose interest. Business hours & address should be front & center.
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I live in Catalunya and the digital revolution from about 2 decades ago simply hasn’t hit for many people. “Do you have a website?” … blank stares… scribbles phone number of back of a scrap of newspaper
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C In order to maximise the number of covers we made the kitchen too small so none of the dishes you order will arrive at the same time and we'll tell you how cool that is.
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Yes. I don't care that the sheep was born and raised in the South Downs and ate grass all it's life and was called Jeffrey. I'm eating it. It could have tried to eat me, but in the great competition of life, it didn't and I won. I beat it. It's a loser sheep.
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I work in corporate learning. We used to call this ‘history of the egg’. If you were teaching someone to boil an egg they first need to know a very long full history of eggs. No they do not.
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I love it! And let's have a real menu, PDF or well designed web page or whatever, not just a scrolling text delivery order form.
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I do occasionally look at about us. But you can keep that as a link at the bottom I’ll find it if I’m interested.
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