@AbbieNormal it's true, but this is basically a bad way to use Facebook, on top of Facebook itself being bad for its users. Bars and restaurants are two of the few things where I actually do want to see promotional stuff, and FB will bury that unless you pay them extra, which I guess these small businesses aren't.

@derwinmcgeary

he thing is this

people use facebook for personal leisure

so when they do things for the restaurant they manage, familiarity kicks in

Google offers to build a simple promotional page and yet that's used poorly and timidly (around here)

because people don't hang on google in their personal time

@derwinmcgeary

this is one of the best and yet it's so timid

In my phone I have better pictures of the place

Also they offer several kind of floures, can you guess that from their page ?

https://corso13pizzerieitaliane.business.site/

@derwinmcgeary

look at this one (the last row is "web site" but it's a google busines page)

https://linktr.ee/miofusion

@derwinmcgeary

if these people were on the fediverse rather than on facebook, the fediverse should offer a type used for representing businesses, like the google business site

@derwinmcgeary

and if whatsapp offered such thing, it would boom

familiarity wins over features, over the tech

@derwinmcgeary

Telegram is attempting to break into the mainstream the right way, I think

But they are using tons of money 😕

@AbbieNormal specifically an activitypub thing for that kind of establishment would make sense. A Foodiverse with special provisions for menus opening times. Don't make people download your pdf menu from FB

@derwinmcgeary

I think @pukkamustard 's OpenEngiadina is about something similar

Also, I think @jonny could be interested in this discussion

@AbbieNormal
@derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
I read the OP and holy SHIT I am

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
SEO SEO SEO. the main thing a restaurant wants is for you to Google them and for them to be the thing you find. anything you make has to be SEO hyperoptimized first, have a ux >= easy than Facebook which has like global capital levels of ux budget. third is balancing "user concern" like why people go to Yelp because they feel like they have some semblance of control/impartial review system. so AP is the perfect thing that tips the scales there

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
it's also a beautiful onramp to teaching people what SEO IS - html meta and target text. only a FOSS SEO framework could do that, it makes you not have a product. that's an onramp to what the web is. and so on

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
I feel like textbook #SmallTech

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard there are also like a billion "nice to haves" that would make a real difference that you only get by actively collaborating with restaurant/bar ppl, and I can only think of a few of bc I've asked a bunch of them over the years what they'd want from the web but haven't worked w them.
- categories of items that share a price
- categories of items that share price with a multiplier for size
- modifiers for items
- linking modifiers with inventory

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
- time of day (eg. lunch/dinner menus) item adjustments by order frequency
- time of day price adjustments by order frequency
- easy for the people at the register to use
- easy to deploy to franchises
- easy to have a synchronized display across kitchen, front of house, etc.
- recommendations of related items, chained items (sides and drinks)
- remember customer's previous order
- integration with delivery service
- order status tracking

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
- hours adjustable on the fly
- hours integrated via metadata with search engines
- specials on the homepage
- bidirectional forumlike customer <-> restaurant communication, people like to tweet @ things, even if we don't like to admit it, people like to read Yelp reviews.
and so on

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
where I think free tech people fuck up approaching these problems is either by not working with the people involved or by over optimizing for the people involved and just imagining it as a "restaurant platform." another axis of fucking up is catering too hard to "developers" or too hard to "users." instead I think we need to start thinking about general purpose frameworks for representing structured data continuous across levels of use

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
taking the groupware idea seriously, that there are multiple scales of social/technological organization that happen simultaneously, and so we need to make communication systems that twin with technical systems that have information available for multiple scales and audiences of entry. practically speaking I feel like this is what the Solid folks were talking about but I just dk where that went mixed with smalltech and also wiki culture

@AbbieNormal @derwinmcgeary @pukkamustard
but I think about this exact thing a lot, why does the internet really suck for arguably the easiest * most numerous group to serve: ppl who want to host some static information that's easy to browse and update

@jonny @AbbieNormal @pukkamustard so where does it fit in - we have AP and software that works with it. Work really hard on opening times because time and calendar stuff is always a nightmare, try and put together a menu data structure that would work for foofy tasting menu places but also five guys build a burger stuff. Special code for dietary stuff and allergies, preferably separate because that matters to the kitchen

@jonny @AbbieNormal @pukkamustard or, I guess to look at your general "not just restaurants", preferences and requirements which aren't necessarily limited to food

@derwinmcgeary
@AbbieNormal @pukkamustard
ya like work with a broad range of people and look for commonalities. like you have notion of "item" that you could use AP's linked data support for making a structured schema to represent. then you have different attributes of item, that again taking advantage of the typing-ish nature of LD you can make different interfaces for.

@derwinmcgeary NIGHTMARES FOR THE NIGHTMARE GOD

@derwinmcgeary @AbbieNormal OH MY GOTH, I‘m so in the market for the foodiverse! :D

@AbbieNormal anyway, I got foodiverse.space for tilting at windmills