What we track for your restaurant
When you run a restaurant, your head is in the kitchen, not on the place down the street quietly reworking its menu or trimming its prices. Each week SpotMove checks the rivals you picked and sends you one short email with everything that changed, so you can match it, beat it, or let it go.
Menu and price changes
When a nearby restaurant reprices its mains, adds a cheaper lunch formula, or starts a happy hour, you want to know before your regulars do the maths themselves. We follow the prices your competitors publish on their websites and listings and flag the moves worth a second look.
New dishes and menu additions
A competitor adding a weekend brunch, a new set menu, or a plant-based section tells you something about where local appetite is heading. We pick up new items as they appear on competitor menus and pages, so you spot a shift early instead of once everyone is already doing it.
Opening hours and the basics
Small operational changes say a lot. A rival adding Sunday service, switching to reservations only, or updating its phone and address can decide where guests end up on a given night. We flag changes to hours, contact details, and business status as they happen.
Quiet website updates
Not every change comes with an announcement. A reworked menu page, a new booking link, a freshly rewritten about page, these are the moves a competitor makes without a word. We scan their websites and tell you what was added, removed, or rewritten, down to whether a page grew or shrank.
Reviews worth knowing about
Reviews move customers, so each week we watch your rivals' Google reviews: how many new ones they pulled in, which way their rating is drifting, and any that land at two stars or below. A competitor on a winning streak, or one taking a public hit, is something you want to see early.
Who is hiring
When a competitor starts advertising for chefs or floor staff, it usually means they are expanding, opening longer, or struggling to hold a team together. We catch the vacancies they post on their site and on social, so you read the ambition or the strain behind the hire.
And the full report attached to each email lays out the rivals you chose side by side: current rating and follower count, how those moved this week, and who is running Facebook and Instagram ads right now.
Three steps to your first report.
Find your business.
Enter your postcode and business name, and we pull your profile straight from Google Maps. It takes a few seconds, with no long forms and no account to set up first. Whether you run a restaurant, a salon, a trade, or a shop, if local customers can find you, we can find you too.
Choose who to watch.
We show you the other businesses nearby in your category, and you pick the ones you actually compete with. There is no algorithm guessing on your behalf. You know your street better than any tool does, so you start with a few names and adjust the list whenever you like as your competition changes.
Get your weekly email.
Your first 30 days are free, so you see the value before you pay anything. Every week a short email lands with every move your competitors made, across their Google profile, website, social, and reviews. It takes a minute to read, with the full report attached whenever you want more detail.