Another week, another tale of woe for brick-and-mortar businesses. This time, we learned that British restaurant chain PizzaExpress was at risk of folding, following in the footsteps of Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurants and long-established travel operator Thomas Cook. PizzaExpress ended 2018 with a staggering $1.37bn of debt, resulting in the company spending more than $112m […]
Every type of business has its quirks, but restaurants might just take the cake when it comes to Google My Business (GMB). It starts within the first few clicks: unique features will magically appear when at least one of your category settings is set to “restaurant”. Fortunately, local business listings are our bread and butter—and […]
In May of last year, Google performed a stunning demo of their new Google Assistant feature, Google Duplex. Using an unparalleled level of human voice realism, Duplex was able to book a hair appointment on its user’s behalf live on stage. Since then, the world has been waiting for a chance to use this new […]