Restaurant Best Practices Featured

An Operator’s Year with AI Agents: How Tso Chinese Built Its AI Stack in 2026

Angell Tsang, Chief AI Officer and Co-Founder at Tso Chinese, looks back on a year of building with AI agents. He covers automating catering sales, sending 5-star reviews from the Marqii MCP to product pages, and having his agents write the bug reports to his vendors.

Menu Management

Too Many Tabs? How to Simplify Your Restaurant Marketing Tools

Too many restaurant marketing tools? Use this keep, merge or cut audit to build a simpler marketing stack and update everything once.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

What Happens When Restaurant Operators Spend a Day Building With AI

Eight restaurant operators spent a day building with AI at Marqii's MCP workshop in NYC. See what they built and the prompts you can try yourself

Restaurant Management Featured

Why Every Restaurant Website Needs a Great FAQ Page (Yes, Even Yours)

Your website doesn't need to win design awards. Its job is to answer the questions your guests already have, fast, so they book the table, place the order, or show up knowing exactly what to expect. That's what a good FAQ section does.

Featured

How to Choose the Right SEO Keywords for Your Restaurant

The keywords you choose for your listings, and the ones you use when you reply to reviews, matter as much as what's on the menu. We get it: "just add the right keywords" is easy to say and hard to actually do. Where do those words even come from? Here's how to find them.

Restaurant Software Featured

The Best Restaurant Technology Is the Kind You Hardly Notice

After spending my career leading restaurant operations and developing teams, I've learned that the most successful organizations don't build their businesses around technology. They build their technology around their people.

Review Management Featured

Why Review Volume Matters More Than Your Star Rating

Your star rating isn't the story anymore. Your review volume is.

Restaurant Software Featured

Why We Built the Marqii MCP: Giving Operators Back Control of Their Data

Talk to almost any restaurant operator right now, and you'll hear a version of the same thing: they have more data than they know what to do with, and almost none of it tells them what to do next. Until now.

Restaurant Software Featured

How Restaurants Are Using the Marqii MCP to Work Smarter

When you connect your Marqii data with what's coming out of your POS, your revenue reports, or your inventory system, a five-minute conversation with your AI can give you more clarity than an hour of pulling reports ever did.

Restaurant Software Featured

10 Things You Can Do in Marqii Without Leaving Your AI Chat

By now you've heard the news: Marqii works inside your favorite AI assistant. But there's a difference between knowing it's possible and knowing what to actually do with it.

Restaurant Software

Introducing Marqii MCP and How to Set It Up

Running a restaurant means you're always moving. Menus to update. Reviews to check. Listings to keep in sync. There's rarely time to sit down and dig through dashboards — and honestly, there shouldn't have to be. That's why we built the Marqii MCP.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

AI Just Recommended Your Competitor. Here’s Why.

What restaurant operators need to understand about how AI models decide who gets found and who gets skipped.

Menu Management Featured

3 Common Menu Listing Mistakes Restaurants Make (And How to Fix Them)

Most operators treat their online menu as a box to check rather than an asset to maintain. What’s the result? Common, fixable mistakes that end up costing them. Here are three of the most common menu listing mistakes, and a clear path to fixing each one.

Restaurant Best Practices Featured

What Building CRUMBS Taught Kelly About Sustainable Restaurant Growth

What started as years of conversations with operators searching for more transactions became a full-service growth agency built around helping restaurant brands scale smarter.

Listings Management Featured

Beyond the NAP: What a “Complete” Business Listing Means in 2026

In this guide, we’ll break down what makes a listing truly complete—and how the right systems can improve local SEO visibility, non-branded search discovery, and first-party conversion.

Restaurant Industry Trends Featured

The Guest Acquisition Imperative

At the industry's current churn and conversion rates, most restaurants are quietly bleeding their loyal customer base without realizing it, mainly because they've deprioritized the top of the funnel.

Review Management Featured

Public vs. Private Feedback: Where Each Belongs in the Guest Journey

A strong restaurant review response strategy means knowing when to stay public and when to take things offline. Here’s how to strike the right balance across the guest journey.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

GEO 101: A Guide for Restaurants

Traditional SEO was about ranking on a results page.GEO is about becoming part of the answer. Let’s break down what GEO really means, why it matters, and what you can do right now to show up in AI-powered search.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

Restaurant Discoverability Checklist: What to Optimize First

Discoverability isn’t one tactic. It’s a system. If you’re wondering where to start (or what to fix first), this checklist breaks it down into clear priorities. We will start with the foundation and work up from there.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

Feed the Machine: Why GBP Profile Attributes are the Key for Restaurant Discovery

Google searches per person in the U.S. have dropped by nearly 20%. This shift shouldn’t be seen as a threat. It’s an opportunity. That’s where Google Business Profile (GBP) attributes come in.

Listings Management Featured

Master Your Map: How to Claim Your Apple Business Connect Page and Delegate Access

Learn how to claim your Apple Business Connect page and delegate access to partners. Master your local SEO on Apple Maps with our guide for multi-unit brands.

Google for Restaurants Featured

The 2025 Search Recap: What Google’s Changes Mean for Restaurants

In 2025, search became a conversation. And heading into 2026, winning isn’t about stuffing keywords onto a page. It’s all about showing up with the right answers at the exact moment a guest is deciding. Here’s our recap of the biggest shifts from 2025 and what restaurant brands should focus on next.

Google for Restaurants Featured

A Restaurant Guide to Review Extortion and Review Bombing

Here’s what Marqii wants every operator to know about recognizing, reporting, and fighting back against review extortion and review bombing.

Local Search for Restaurants Featured

5 Tips for a Restaurant Website That Actually Drives Business

Recently, we sat down with Marqii’s own website expert, John Cullinan, and hospitality marketer Anna Tauzin from The Good Kind to break down what restaurant operators must do right now to stay competitive online. Their verdict? Success comes down to five must-have elements.

Review Management

Introducing Marqii’s First Party Reviews: Taking Control of Your Digital Reputation

We’re breaking down why private feedback is essential, how it supports your guest experience strategy, and how Marqii’s First Party Reviews product gives you the tools to take control of your entire feedback loop.