Chrome Extension
AI review-response assistant that works on Google, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and TheFork. Learns your venue voice from every manual reply. 5 free AI responses to try.
Install freeHiring young has never been more expensive — or more important. We’re on the side of the independent restaurant AND bar owners doing it anyway.
Free to start — five AI review responses, no card needed.
Built around the platforms that decide who gets found
Three changes landed on top of each other. None of them are about how you run your venue — they’re policy, and they fall hardest on the entry-level roles that give a young person their start.
More than doubled since 2015 — from £5.30 to £10.85 an hour from April 2026, an 8.5% jump this year alone.
Source: Low Pay Commission / gov.uk, 2026
The threshold was cut from £9,100 to £5,000, pulling around 774,000 more hospitality workers into contributions — about £1bn of new cost.
Source: UKHospitality, 2025
Under-18s are barred from the restricted period — usually 10pm to 6am — and capped at eight hours a day. That rules them out of the core evening shift.
Source: Working Time Regulations 1998 (Acas)
young people could be out of work or training by the early 2030s
the cost of that lost potential, every year
hospitality is the UK’s biggest youth employer and a key driver of social mobility
The first jobs independent restaurants AND bars offer are exactly the rungs the country is short of. This needs fixing at the top. Until it is, here’s help you can use now.
Source: Milburn Review via The Guardian / The Independent, May 2026
Launching June 2026
The platform that helps independent restaurant AND bar owners develop the young people they hire — and prove what that team is worth.
Get your independent restaurant or bar found by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI. The Chrome Extension and our free GPTs are available to try today; the full platform opens in June.
booteek AI is the AI Visibility platform for independent restaurants and bars in the UK, Portugal and Spain. Full platform opens June 2026; Chrome Extension and three free ChatGPT GPTs available now. Source: booteek.ai, May 2026.
Start with the free Chrome Extension. It’s the fastest way to feel what booteek does for your team and your visibility, before the full platform opens in June.
Available today
The full booteek AI platform opens June 2026. These tools are free, live now — no signup, no card, no waiting.
AI review-response assistant that works on Google, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and TheFork. Learns your venue voice from every manual reply. 5 free AI responses to try.
Install freeYour venue’s digital health check in a ChatGPT conversation. Real Google Business Profile data, review patterns, competitor benchmarks and AI visibility — in one chat.
Open in ChatGPTZone-aware wellbeing programmes for kitchen, bar, floor and management staff. The first AI coach that understands the difference between head-chef stress and floor-manager stress.
Open in ChatGPT2,800+ independent restaurants and bars across 33 cities in the UK, Portugal and Spain. Real review quotes, Hot Score rankings, no chains, no sponsored listings. Free to use.
Open in ChatGPTA one-off Competitor Check shows how your venue looks to the AI assistants diners ask — and how the places nearby compare. No subscription to find out.
Don't want to wait? Buy now.
A one-off report on your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your AI visibility and how you stack up against your top 5 local rivals. 60 seconds. PDF emailed.
You can’t change the wage floor or the NI threshold. What you can change is how much you get out of every young person you take on. booteek reads each team member’s real strengths and turns them into small, daily development — so a stretched owner can develop young staff without finding a spare afternoon.
What it looks like on a shift
Two minutes after a shift — not an annual review.
Every young person you hire is good at something specific — reading a table, staying calm in the weeds, making a regular feel like a regular. booteek maps those real strengths to the work that matters and turns them into small, daily development. Here’s how it works.
June 2026 launch waitlist
A free read on your team and AI-visibility readiness — and your spot on the June 2026 launch waitlist.
Begin with the free Chrome Extension — the rest of the platform opens in June 2026.