Restaurants can still use Yext to sync their first-party Pickup and Delivery URLs to the Order with Google experience, known as Food Place Actions. For more detailed information on this update, check out our blog post here.
Price range updates
Guests have always been able to gauge how expensive a restaurant is by looking at the number of dollar signs placed on a restaurant's business profile. Now, instead of dollar signs, Google is showing actual price ranges (e.g. $10 - $20).
Price ranges are sourced directly by Google and cannot be actively managed by restaurants today.
Suggest feedback on menu highlights
Guests have the ability to take photos and leave feedback about specific menu items, which get featured as Menu Highlights on a restaurant's business profile. Now, you can provide feedback to Google and report outdated dishes, or update details (e.g. change the dish name). This can help ensure your menu items are reflected accurately on Google. This is important for letting customers know exactly what dishes you offer — and it ties back to discoverability in search results. (To use a simple example: if someone searches for "pepperoni pizza near me," the clearer it is that your restaurant offers pepperoni pizza, the more likely you are to show up in those search results.)
This feature is currently only supported through the Google UI.
New "Nearby Events & Deals" section
Google recently started showcasing "Nearby Events & Deals" in the SERP. Consistently shown as a pack of four, Google is sourcing these results from local businesses who create offer and event posts. This new experience is currently only available for businesses in the food and restaurant vertical across the US Canada, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, and India (with more geos to come).
Offer and event posts are great opportunities to create awareness and drive more engagement with your business. For example, a Mexican restaurant could create a weekly offer post to promote the discounts that are available on #TacoTuesday. Restaurants can easily create offer and event posts in Yext.