More than any other industry, bars and restaurants are perfectly positioned to take advantage of the boom in smartphone use.
Decisions on dining are often made on the spur of the moment so by having a simple mobile site with a booking tool and click-to-call button restaurants will put themselves in the best position to attract some extra customers.
A new report form JiWire has found that consumers are twice as likely to use mobile than desktop as a source of information about where to eat.
To find out whether restaurants are making the most of this opportunity I searched for places to eat around the Econsultancy office in London’s Soho.
It’s a prime tourist spot that’s also home to thousands of office workers, so there’s plenty of money to be made keeping all those people fed.