Restaurants & Takeaways · Available Now
Trade Growth SEO works with restaurants, takeaways, and cafés across the UK. We build websites, handle local SEO and Answer Engine Optimisation so your business shows up when people search nearby or ask AI engines for recommendations, manage Google and Meta ads when organic visibility needs a boost, and get you set up to take card payments in-store and accept orders through your website — via our payments partner, Dojo. You sign up with Dojo directly for the payments side; we handle everything else and make sure it all works together.
01 — Why It Matters
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Most restaurant and takeaway customers aren’t loyal to a brand — they’re hungry and local. “Chinese takeaway [town]”, “best pizza near me”, “restaurant open now” — these are the searches that drive walk-ins and orders. If your business isn’t ranking for them, you’re invisible at the moment the decision is made.
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For food businesses, the Google local pack — the map and three business listings at the top of local search results — is often the first thing a customer sees. A well-managed Google Business Profile with accurate hours, current menus, regular posts, and a strong review profile is often the deciding factor between your door and the one next to it.
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Customers under 40 increasingly ask ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews “what’s a good takeaway in [town]” before opening Google. The businesses cited in those answers are drawn from what’s published online, what directories trust you, and what your website tells AI engines about what you do. Most food businesses are completely absent. That’s a gap we can close.
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A consistent flow of genuine reviews does two things: it improves where you rank in local search, and it converts more of the people who do find you. A business with 12 recent 5-star reviews outperforms one with 80 older ones. Managing that process — timing, responses, and making it easy for happy customers to leave a review — is part of the SEO work.
02 — What We Do
The same services we offer to trades businesses are available to food businesses. Here’s what each one looks like in a restaurant or takeaway context. For full details on any service, see the services overview.
A production website with your menu, opening hours, gallery, map, and contact details. Mobile-first — because most food searches happen on a phone. Built with the SEO and AEO foundations already in place, so it’s doing useful work from day one.
Google rankings for the local food searches that bring customers through the door — or to your online ordering page. Google Business Profile claimed, optimised, and posted to regularly. Citations on the directories that matter for food businesses. Review management built in.
Answer Engine Optimisation for the queries your customers ask AI — “best Indian restaurant in [town]”, “pizza delivery near me”. Schema markup, structured FAQs, and citation building on the sources that ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews trust.
Google and Meta ads when you need faster results than organic search alone, or when you’re promoting something specific — a new menu, a seasonal offer, a delivery area expansion. Available as part of the Engine tier or as a standalone service.
In-store card terminals for counter and table payments. Online checkout built into your website for pre-orders, takeaway orders, and booking deposits. Set up via our payments partner, Dojo — you sign up with them directly. Full details →
Our payments partner
In-person card terminals and online payment processing are provided by our partner, Dojo. Trade Growth SEO makes the introduction and integrates payments into your website — you sign up with Dojo directly. We are not the payment provider.
03 — Questions
Get in touch and we’ll talk through what your business needs — website, search visibility, payments, or all three.