When customers search for places to eat, they are not thinking about category mapping, menu formatting, or page structure. They simply want an easy and clean way to discover local restaurants.

Behind the scenes, WhereYouEat handles all the work that makes your restaurant easy to find, easy to browse, and easy to choose. Here is how your listing is created and 

maintained.

1. We Build Your Restaurant Profile From the Ground Up

Every new restaurant begins with a complete profile that includes:

• Name, address, phone number

• Hours of operation

• Cuisine and categories

• Photos and gallery

• Menu sections and items

• Services such as delivery, pickup, or catering

Everything is entered manually by our team to ensure accuracy.

2. Your Menu Is Rebuilt and Reformatted

Menus often arrive as photos, scanned pages, or outdated PDFs. We reorganize and clean the menu so customers can read it easily on both desktop and mobile. This includes:

• Rebuilding sections

• Cleaning item names

• Organizing descriptions

• Ensuring readability

• Removing clutter or duplicate items

A clean menu increases customer engagement

significantly.

3. We Assign Category and Search Tags

Your restaurant is placed into multiple categories based on:

• Cuisine

• Neighborhood

• Food style

• Services

• Popular search terms

These tags determine how customers find your restaurant when they search for terms such as “Breakfast,” “Mexican Food,” “Pizza Near Me,” or “Party Trays.”

4. We Optimize Your Photos

Our team prepares your photos to make sure they load quickly and display properly. This includes:

• Cropping

• Compression

• Resizing

• Improving visual order

• Ensuring mobile compatibility

High-quality photos help customers feel confident choosing your 

restaurant.

5. We Keep Your Listing Updated

Even free listings receive periodic updates. If we receive new menus, flyers, updated hours, or customer submissions, we make adjustments to keep your profile accurate.

Accuracy is one of the main reasons customers return to WhereYouEat.

6. Your Restaurant Appears Across Multiple Sections

Your listing is shown in more than one place, including:

• Your city section

• Your neighborhood

• Your cuisine page

• Food-style category pages

• Seasonal or holiday listings (when applicable)

This increases your exposure to customers searching in different 

ways.

7. Your Listing Connects Into the Local Search Ecosystem

WhereYouEat includes local guides, menu write-ups, neighborhood pages, events, and trending searches. Your restaurant becomes part of this network, which increases visibility over time.

8. Behind-the-Scenes Maintenance

Our team works continuously on:

• Expanding search terms

• Updating cuisine and category mapping

• Improving menu formatting

• Optimizing links

• Updating platform features

• Organizing neighborhoods and regions

This ongoing maintenance ensures that listings remain current and competitive.

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Final Thought

Our goal is simple:
To make your restaurant easy for customers to discover.
You focus on running your business. We take care of the digital details that customers see every day.