For restaurants
When diners ask ChatGPT 'best pizza in {your city}', the same 5 spots win every Friday. Be one of the five.
Be the first answer when ChatGPT picks 'best of'. We check Google Maps, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Yelp, and Bing — and tell you exactly what's wrong.
What we check for restaurants
14 things, written for running a restaurant.
Restaurants live and die on visibility. The 14 checks identify gaps in your Google page, menu schema, and presence on the AI-cited 'best of' lists.
01 · Google Maps
Tags on your Google page
Your primary tag should be "Restaurant" — and the secondary tags should match the services that win the highest-intent restaurants searches.
02 · Google Maps
Badges most restaurants are missing
Things like "24/7 emergency", "Free estimates", "Licensed" — small toggles that change which searches you show up for. Most restaurants miss the right ones.
03 · Google Maps
Review velocity vs. your top competitor
How fast new reviews are coming in compared to the #1 restaurant in your map pack. Recency matters more than total count.
04 · Google Maps
Replies to reviews you haven't answered
We find every review without an owner reply and write you a keyword-rich template for each rating band.
05 · Google Maps
Posts on your Google page
Posts don't move rankings (Sterling Sky proved that in a controlled study) but they lift clicks. We write 8 weeks of post copy for you.
06 · Google Maps
Services you offer that aren't listed
Every service you do should be on your Google page with a 2–3 sentence description. We compare your site to your listing and find the gaps.
07 · Google Maps
Your Google description
750 characters of prime real estate. Doesn't affect ranking (per Google) but it drives clicks. We write you 3 versions — keyword, conversion, balanced.
08 · Google Maps
Photo cadence
Real job-site photos uploaded weekly beat generic shots. We build you an 8-week upload plan focused on the right kinds for running a restaurant.
09 · Foundations
Phone + address consistency across directories
Yelp, BBB, Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack, Bing Places — we cross-check every one. AI tools won't cite you if your phone is wrong on Yelp.
10 · Foundations
Open hours and emergency availability
Turn on emergency hours and you win "best restaurant open now near me" searches — one of the highest-intent running a restaurant query classes.
11 · Foundations
Your visible address
Hiding your address (the SAB flag) correlates with rank loss in Sterling Sky's 8,186-business study. We check whether you should display it.
12 · Foundations
Service-area pages on your website
One page per Downtown-style service area, with real local content. We draft each page for you.
13 · Foundations
Local link prospects
Sponsorships, chambers, supplier cross-links. We find 5 high-probability prospects in your city and draft your outreach.
14 · AI Visibility
Recommendations across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini
We run 20 prompts a restaurant's customer might ask — across 5 AI engines. We tell you which prompts you're missing from and exactly what to fix.
What restaurants are saying
Real fixes. Real restaurants. Across the country.
“The menu-schema fix is huge for restaurants. We started showing up for specific dish searches ('best butter chicken {city}') within a week.”
Aman K.
Tandoor Heaven
Edison, NJ
“ChatGPT was recommending three other Italian places by name. We were nowhere. After the Yelp + 'best of' fixes we're cited in 7/20 prompts.”
Sofia D.
Pasta Forno
Providence, RI
“The 'open now' hours fix found that our brunch hours weren't showing on Sundays. One toggle, immediate Sunday brunch reservations.”
Marcus H.
Hartwood Bistro
Asheville, NC
From the blog
Real-world stories from restaurants.
For restaurants · May 2026
Best pizza in Park Slope: why locals and ChatGPT pick different shops
Ask 50 Park Slope parents at the playground for the best pizza on 7th Avenue and you'll get five names. Ask ChatGPT and you'll get three — none of which match the playground answers. Here's why, and what it means for any pizza shop in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
For restaurants · May 2026
Best tacos in East Austin: where ChatGPT actually sends people in 2026
East Austin has roughly 80 taco trucks, trailers, and storefronts in a three-mile stretch. ChatGPT recommends seven. We mapped the source pages it pulls for every East Austin taco query — and what it takes for the 73 missing ones to show up.
For restaurants · May 2026
Everybody's looking for pizza. Nobody can find yours.
Friday night, every phone in your delivery radius asks for pizza. If your shop isn't on Google Maps, ChatGPT, Yelp, and the local 'best of' lists, they order from someone else. Here's where to be found.
For restaurants · May 2026
Why ChatGPT recommends three other restaurants and not yours
Map-pack top-3 only overlaps with ChatGPT recommendations about 45% of the time. Different signals matter. Here's what to fix.
Pricing
Free to start. Honest from there.
Free
Your first check. No card. No catch.
Free
- ✓1 full check of your business
- ✓All 14 things we look at
- ✓30 days to view the result
Solo
Stay on top of it every week.
$49/mo
- ✓Weekly fresh check
- ✓Track every fix as you do it
- ✓Weekly text + email digest
- ✓Done-for-you copy (descriptions, posts, review replies)
Pro
When AI search matters as much as Google.
$99/mo
- ✓Everything in Solo
- ✓Weekly ChatGPT + Gemini mention check (20 prompts)
- ✓Monthly executive PDF you can share
- ✓Alerts when a competitor outranks you
Expert
A real person on your calendar every week.
$399/mo
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓30 minutes a week with your assigned expert
- ✓DM your expert any time — same person, same context
- ✓Expert reprioritizes your fix list based on what's working
Annual plans bill once a year at 20% off the monthly rate. Cancel anytime.
FAQ for restaurants
Questions restaurants actually ask.
Cuisine type — does that affect my Google category?+
Yes — primary category is huge. 'Indian Restaurant' vs. 'Curry Restaurant' vs. 'South Indian Restaurant' can swing rank significantly for cuisine-specific searches. We pick the right one for your menu.
Should I post my full menu on Google?+
Yes — every dish is searchable. We check whether your menu is on Google, on your site (with schema), and on the third-party platforms diners use. Missing menus = invisible for dish-specific searches.
Online ordering — does it affect my Google ranking?+
Indirectly — it affects engagement (clicks, calls, direction requests) which Google factors into local rankings. We check whether your online-order link is prominent and unbroken.
Yelp matters less than it used to, right?+
For end users, maybe. For ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, Yelp is one of the top sources they cross-reference. Yelp matters more for AI search than it does for diners.
How do I get on 'Best [cuisine] in {city}' lists?+
We find every local 'best of' list ranking for your cuisine + city and draft submission emails for each. Local news, Eater, Thrillist, Three Best Rated — all in scope.
What about reservations — OpenTable / Resy / Tock?+
Their listings feed AI tools too. We check NAP consistency and menu completeness across whichever platforms you use.