# CoRestaurant

> CoRestaurant (corestaurant.ch) is a free restaurant discovery and reservation platform covering more than 375,000 restaurants in 17 countries across Europe, North America and Australia. Users browse restaurants on interactive maps, view menus, photos, reviews and opening hours, and book tables instantly — free for diners. Restaurant owners can claim their listing, manage reservations, menus and promotions.

CoRestaurant is operated from Switzerland. Every restaurant page includes address, GPS coordinates, cuisine type, price range, opening hours, menu items with prices, photos and Google reviews. Content is available in 5 languages; the restaurant data is the same in each, with translated descriptions and interface.

## How the site is organized

- Languages (URL prefix): `en`, `fr`, `de`, `it`, `es` — e.g. `https://corestaurant.ch/en/...`
- Countries covered: Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Czech Republic, UK, United States, Canada, Australia.
- Restaurant page pattern: `https://corestaurant.ch/{lang}/{Country}/restaurant/{name-city-id}` (e.g. `/en/Austria/restaurant/gasthaus-schloegl-antau-1`).
- Country maps: `https://corestaurant.ch/{lang}/{Country}/map` — interactive map of all restaurants in the country.
- City search: `https://corestaurant.ch/{lang}/{Country}/map/restaurant/{City}` — map filtered to one city (e.g. `/en/Spain/map/restaurant/Madrid`).

## Key pages

- [Countries overview](https://corestaurant.ch/en/countries): all 17 countries with restaurant counts.
- [Switzerland map](https://corestaurant.ch/en/Switzerland/map): browse Swiss restaurants.
- [Signup](https://corestaurant.ch/en/signup): free diner account for booking and favourites.
- [For restaurant owners](https://corestaurant.ch/en/restaurants): claim your restaurant, plans and pricing per country.
- [Add a restaurant](https://corestaurant.ch/en/add-restaurant): submit a missing restaurant.
- [Verify your business](https://corestaurant.ch/en/verify-business): ownership verification flow.
- [About](https://corestaurant.ch/en/about), [Contact](https://corestaurant.ch/en/contact), [FAQ](https://corestaurant.ch/en/faq).

## Reservations

- Diners book a table directly from a restaurant page; booking is free and instant.
- Claimed restaurants manage bookings in an owner dashboard (menus, promotions, analytics, staff, floor plan).
- Reservations at not-yet-claimed restaurants are forwarded to the restaurant by email; if the restaurant is unreachable before the time slot, the booking is cancelled automatically and the diner notified.
- Owner subscriptions and billing are processed by Stripe; prices are per country in local currency.

## For machines

- Sitemap index: `https://corestaurant.ch/sitemaps_v3/sitemap-index.xml` (per country and language, newest countries first).
- Restaurant pages carry JSON-LD (`Restaurant` schema with address, geo, opening hours, aggregate rating where reviews exist) plus breadcrumbs and hreflang for all 5 languages.
- Data volume: 375,000+ active restaurants; largest markets: United States (~70k), Italy (~68k), France (~54k), Spain (~50k), Germany (~37k).
- Crawling policy: see `https://corestaurant.ch/robots.txt`.

## Optional

- [Terms](https://corestaurant.ch/en/conditions), [Privacy](https://corestaurant.ch/en/privacy).