I’m sure that like most restaurant owners you’ll have done searches in Google to see where your restaurant appears in their rankings.

Nearly 70% of searchers in Google choose from the 3-pack and don’t go further down the search results. So in this example, they’d choose one of these 3 restaurants and not look at any others.

It’s therefore really important that your restaurant appears there in the 3-Pack!

BUT… where does your restaurant REALLY appear in the 3-Pack?

What you may not know is that not everyone in your area will see the same 3-Pack results…

The results are dependent on the searcher's exact location. So even someone less than a mile down the road could be seeing different results to you.

Take a look at this map…

Want to see EXACTLY where your restaurant appears for searches from all over your town or city?

In this quick video, I show how you can easily find out your 3-Pack rankings for people searching from anywhere in your area and beyond...

In an upcoming post, I'll be sharing some simple methods to improve your Google 3-Pack rankings, but in the meantime, I'd highly recommend that you follow the video and find out your exact rankings all over your local area.

And if I can help you with anything, please drop me a message.

Best regards,

Chris Towland

1. That’s where the majority of consumers go when they want to check out a restaurant. 63% say that before they will visit a business or restaurant, they will look at their reviews in Google. And if the restaurant has lots of poor reviews, or no recent good reviews, then they start to consider other restaurants instead.
    
2. Reviews influence search engine rankings. According to a Moz study, review signals make up around 15 percent of ranking factors. That means that the more positive reviews you have, the higher Google ranks your restaurant on local search results.

Do you actively encourage reviews, or just hope that diners will leave them?

The vast majority of restaurants that I visit don’t do anything to actively encourage diners to leave a review. They simply hope that the customer will enjoy their meal, go home, think about their lovely meal, decide to leave a review, search to find the place to leave a review, and then post that review.

But of course, most of the time that doesn’t happen!

In fact, the person who is more likely to think about leaving a review later, is the person who didn’t have a good meal and so leaves a bad review for you!

So here’s my challenge to you…

How can you make it easier for your diners to leave a review on Google for you?

Thinking about this (and putting it into action) could easily quadruple the good reviews you get in 2024… and significantly increase the customers that dine in your restaurant.

At the VERY least, you could simply ask every customer if they could leave a review for you. They’d still need to find the right place to leave a review but at least it puts the idea in their head.

Or could you do more?

• Could you give the customer a QR code that would take them to the correct place to leave a review?
   
• Could you add a review request to receipts, along with a link or QR code?
   
• Could you add a link to your website that takes people to the correct place to leave a Google review?
   
• Or if you have the contact details of your customers (maybe from your booking system), could you send them an email or text message after they’ve had a meal with you? This could then include a link for them to click.

Review Boost 

I'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce you to my own brand new system for getting more reviews for any restaurant. I've been testing the system with my restaurant clients for quite a few months and the results have been superb.

Review Boost makes it SO easy for the customer to leave a Google review as well as encourages (or even incentivizes) your staff to always ask diners for the review. It also helps to reduce the number of bad reviews and increases good reviews.

You can see full details of Review Boost by Clicking Here.