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Restaurant Groups

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A fourth restaurant front being added to a row of three shopfronts, with the Schmitdy dolphin pinning a blank page to the new door.
AI Search18 min read

Opening a Fourth Restaurant: A 90-Day Launch Plan for an Existing Group (2026)

A group opening its fourth restaurant already has guests, data and a name. Use them in order: dates and facts, existing guests, soft opening, opening week, then a net-covers check at days 30, 60 and 90.

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A table with a paper map of five restaurant venues, each with its own awning, as a hand passes a card toward one while the Schmitdy dolphin watches with a clipboard.
AI Search15 min read

Local Store Marketing for Restaurant Groups: What the Group Runs and What Each Venue Owns (2026)

A task-by-task split of local marketing between head office and each venue, with a monthly rhythm, consent rules for the UK, US and Germany, and a 90-day start.

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Opening day outside a new restaurant location, with the mascot holding up a phone showing a map pin above the entrance, and framed photos of the restaurant group's other locations hanging inside, each marked with its own pin.
AI Search11 min read

How Restaurant Groups Protect AI Visibility While Expanding

Visibility earned at your existing locations does not move to a new one by itself. A repeatable checklist to run at every opening, so growth does not cost you ground you already hold.

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Guests choose distinct delivery, pickup and dine-in paths for the correct restaurant.
AI Search8 min read

Do delivery-platform listings help guests discover a restaurant?

A delivery listing is useful when it serves the right guest occasion at an acceptable cost. Check the branch, ordering journey and actual settlement.

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A restaurant operator hands an agency a clear brief with separate facts for each venue.
AI Search9 min read

How to brief an AI-search agency for a restaurant group

A practical brief starts with the guest problem. Agree venue facts, work, approval and evidence before comparing agency promises.

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A restaurant operator compares audit scope across several venues and three different supplier offers.
AI Search11 min read

What should an AI-search audit actually check for a restaurant group?

A visibility score is only a start. Ask which venue was recommended, whether the facts were right and whether a guest could reach the correct booking page.

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Riso-print illustration of the Schmitdy dolphin captain at a ship's wheel with chart and compass, leading a fleet of small ships with candy-swirl banded sails out of harbour toward a rising sun, warm ecru background, no text.
AI Search11 min read

AI-Driven Growth for Multi-Site Restaurant Groups: The Two AI Problems You're Conflating in 2026

AI is changing hospitality growth in two separate ways, and most groups are only staffing one of them. Here's the sourced case for the one nobody owns, with a worked example of what it's plausibly worth to seven venues.

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Riso-print illustration of the Schmitdy dolphin harbourmaster on a quayside with a chart, watching restaurant shopfronts along a harbour street: two lit and glowing under a banded candy-swirl lighthouse beam, three still in shadow, warm ecru background, no text.
AI Search11 min read

How to Make Your Restaurant Group Appear in AI Search (2026 Playbook)

Most restaurant-group guides are written for one venue and quietly fail on the second. Here is the operational playbook for groups specifically, plus the exact prompts to test whether any of it worked.

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A restaurant group checks separate venue review records with a shared process and local owners.
AI Search8 min read

Restaurant Review Management for Multi-Site Groups in 2026

Manage reviews with a shared process and a local owner. Compare venues separately and keep service corrections distinct from claims about AI recommendations.

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Restaurant managers review a neighbourhood map showing three distinct venues in the same group.
AI Search8 min read

Restaurant Groups and AI Search: Help Guests Find the Right Branch

Wrong menu, wrong address or wrong booking link? A practical guide to keeping a restaurant group's locations distinct across its website and AI answers.

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