Even the local breakfast type diners around here do. As do local bars, pizza joints, and local casual to fine dining restaurants. None of them a corporate chain.
Fine dining I would absolutely expect to have their own website. They usually have a bit more resources and manpower available.
A fringe mom’n’pop might (plenty do, I’m not saying they don’t) but I wouldn’t be surprised if one didn’t. The kind of place where their own 10-year-old handles phone orders between math homework assignments isn’t necessarily gonna have a webmaster.
Plenty? Your last post said rarely. Which is it? It’s not clear from your posts.
What really bugs me is when there are 2 “official” menus available and they aren’t the same. For example, Delmonico at the Venetian Las Vegas has a menu on the hotel website, which you’d think would be accurate, that disagrees with the menu on Emeril’s own restaurant page. This makes dinner planning more than a bit of a crap shoot.
What I’d really like, however, is for my favorite watering hole to put their current, up-to-the-minute tap list online. They carry lots of guest taps, and rotate their own beers constantly. I don’t want to drive all the way over there to be met with a menu of stuff I won’t drink. Can be frustrating.
Well, darling, it generally varies wildly by location, and by the whims (and available resources) of individual businesses.
What am I, the Keeper of the Websites of All the Tiny Businesses out there?
ETA: if so, I am wildly underpaid.
This would require a paid webmaster on their staff.
Not saying it’s not doable - of course it is - but for a beer rotation like you describe, that’s pretty much an additional F/T position on their salary.
I doubt it “requires an additional F/T position”. There are restaurants that post their Chef Special and/or Catch of the Day on a daily basis.
Hell, I’d settle for a daily photo of the menu board taken when they open each day on Instagram. Hardly a budget breaker.
Lots of local non-chain restaurants near me don’t have a website. Maybe they have a menu on UberEATS or something.
Not all of the local places have websites around here, but they at least tend to have an official Facebook. I think this is because Facebook automatically makes the pages, and they’d rather manage them than not—seeing as basically everyone over a certain age here uses Facebook.