Get your restaurant found on Google and ChatGPT
When someone asks an AI where to eat tonight, it draws on Google Maps profiles, reviews, restaurant websites and local press. To be named, your restaurant needs plain, consistent facts everywhere: cuisine, neighborhood, hours, dietary options, parking and what the room is like. Nobody can guarantee a mention, but you can remove the reasons to be skipped.
Talk through your restaurant with the person who builds it
A free 30-minute call. You leave knowing which part of your restaurant to hand to AI first, what we would build, and roughly how long it takes.
Say what a person would ask
AI answers questions like “quiet Italian place for a first date” or “restaurant with a good vegetarian menu.” If your site only says “Welcome,” there is nothing to quote. Write the sentences a guest would need.
Make your facts match everywhere
Hours on your site, your Google profile and your delivery listing should agree. When they disagree, assistants and guests both get it wrong.
An agent that checks ChatGPT and AI search can ask AI engines your guests’ questions on a schedule and report whether you were named, so you see the real count.
Reviews and press count
Assistants lean on what others say about you. A steady flow of honest reviews and a mention in a local food writer’s list help more than any trick.
Picture this
Examples of what it can look like. Illustrations, not clients.
A guest asks, “Where can I take my parents for a nice anniversary dinner in Pasadena?” Your page about anniversary dinners is what the assistant can quote.
Your site says you close at 10 but your Maps profile says 9. Fixing it stops guests from arriving to a dark room.
Each month a short report shows which questions named you and which named a competitor.
The rules that apply, in their own words
“unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.”
“Google’s automated ranking systems are designed to prioritize helpful, reliable information that’s created to benefit people”
Sources
- Google Search Central: creating helpful content: Google’s own guidance on what its ranking systems reward.
- FDA Food Code 2022: The model food safety code most states adopt.
- ADA.gov: introduction to the ADA: Accessibility duties for businesses open to the public.
- 15 U.S.C. § 45 (FTC Act, Section 5): The federal ban on unfair or deceptive business practices, ads included.
Talk through your restaurant with the person who builds it
A free 30-minute call. You leave knowing which part of your restaurant to hand to AI first, what we would build, and roughly how long it takes.
Questions
Can I pay to be recommended by ChatGPT?
No. There is no honest way to buy a place in the answer, so focus on clear facts and real reviews.
Is this the same as Google SEO?
It overlaps. Both reward clear pages and accurate profiles, but AI answers also weigh how others describe you.
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