Google Search & Maps Updated

Google’s new restaurant wait times also comes from the aggregated and anonymized data from users who opted in to Google Location History – the same data that powers popular times, wait times and visit duration. In the case of restaurants, Google will now include a pop-up box that appears when you click on a time frame in the popular times’ chart. The box shows the live or historical data labeled as “busy,” “usually busy,” “usually not busy,” etc., along with the wait time. Below the popular times chart, there’s also a section that helps users plan their visit by offering info on the peak wait times and duration. (e.g. “People typically spend 45 mins to 2 hr here.”) The new wait time feature will be supported on nearly a million sit-down restaurant listings worldwide, initially in Google Search.