Blog / October 9, 2018
Google Reservations: Everything You Need to Know


Elise Musumano
Most guests today google reservations to book tables at restaurants, and they want to book them fast. Google recognized this, which is why they built out their Reserve with Google feature. What It Looks Like: A “Find A Table” button that reservation-seekers see when searching for your restaurant from Google Search or Maps.

Guests want the ability to book from search, and Google just gave it to them.
What It Requires: 1.) A Google Business Listing (very easy), and 2.) your restaurant’s reservation management system to be integrated. Your Google Business Listing pulls in your restaurant’s hours of operation, address, phone number, and menu and reservation links, to assist easier booking. If you don’t have a booking listing yet, you can create one in under 5 minutes or claim one that Google already made for you. Here’s how. The second piece to this is your restaurant reservation system. The platform that you use to manage your restaurant’s online reservations must have an active partnership for a Google integration. If you’re a SevenRooms customer: you automatically get a “Find A Table” button right within your business listing. Not only that, but there are no cover fees and you own all of the data. Here’s what the “Find A Table” button to reserve looks like in real life, when a guest searches for Fire & Vine‘s El Gaucho restaurant in Seattle:


