For owners & managers
How listings work
Every place to eat in Picton is listed, free. Nobody pays to be listed or placed higher, and nothing is ranked. Featured listings are always labelled.
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Who gets listed
Any business in Picton or Waikawa that sells food or drink to eat — cafes, restaurants, pubs with food, bakeries, takeaways, dessert shops, coffee carts at a fixed spot. We add venues ourselves as we find them; you don’t have to ask. Venues that close stay on file with a “permanently closed” note so old links still help people, but they drop out of every list.
Where the details come from
Opening hours come first from your Google Business Profile, then from recent announcements on your own channels, then your website and social pages. Everything else — cuisine, services, dietary options, price — comes from your menu, website or listing. If we can’t confirm a detail, the page says so instead of guessing. Each listing shows the date its hours were last checked. The editorial policy has the full method.
How lists are ordered
Alphabetically, or by walking distance from the ferry when a reader chooses that. A featured listing gets its own block on the front page and is shown first in the categories it fits, always tagged “Featured”. There are no sponsored placements, ratings or reviews. Filters only show a venue when its listing states the fact (for example, “takeaway”), so the quickest way to appear under a filter is to tell us.
What helps most
- Opening hours, including seasonal changes and the kitchen closing time. Keeping your Google Business Profile current is the fastest route.
- Links to your menu, online ordering and table bookings. We link to them; we don’t copy prices.
- Services: dine-in, takeaway, delivery, bookings, outdoor seating.
- Dietary options you’re happy to stand behind.
- Photos you own, for publication here. They are credited to you.
Send an update or a correction
Use the corrections form — choose “I own or run a business listed here” — or email corrections@pictonrestaurants.co.nz. Messages go to the editor, David Rowell. Nothing is published automatically: we check the change against your own published details or with you, then update the listing, usually within a few days.