How to set up your opening hours

What the hours card in Settings is

Setting up your opening hours means filling in the Opening hours card in Settings: seven rows, Monday to Sunday, and on each day as many time slots as you need — the card itself suggests the classic example of 11:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 22:00. A day with no time slot is a closed day, and the card shows Closed under its name so you're never in doubt.

Once you save, your public page does the math on its own at every visit: it compares the clock with that day's time slots and shows the Open now or Closed label at the top, with Closes at 23:30 next to it when it's open. The same label shows up for you on the Dashboard and on your card on the restaurant map. With no time slots set up, the label doesn't appear: we'd rather show nothing than show a guess.

Why it's worth filling in all seven days

• People find out instantly whether it's worth leaving home. Anyone opening your page sees the label before the menu and, if you're open, what time you close. It's the difference between someone ordering calmly at 21:50 and someone giving up because they don't know if there's still time.
• Without hours, you're left out of the map filter. On the restaurant map each card shows Open or Closed, and there's an Open now button to see only who's serving. A restaurant with no hours set up counts as closed in that filter and disappears from the list exactly when someone is hungry.
• Search engines read these hours. Your public page publishes the time slots as structured data in the format Google and others understand, the same one used to show open or closed in search results. It's no guarantee you'll show up that way, but with no hours set up there's nothing for them to read.
• Your Dashboard uses the same clock. The Open now label customers see is the one at the top of the Dashboard, worked out the same way. If it's wrong for you, it's wrong for everyone — and the fix is always in the same card.
• Closed doesn't lock out any orders. Hours are a notice, not a padlock: outside them, tables still open tabs, the waiter enters items as usual and the kitchen gets them. You can serve that group that walked in five minutes before closing without touching a single setting.

How to set up your opening hours in 6 steps

Six steps and no hidden required fields: all the work is tapping + Add hours and entering two times per row.

1. Open your restaurant Settings

   On the Dashboard, tap the Settings gear (the address is qmen.us/restaurante/configuracoes/). Scroll past the address and map card: right after it comes the Opening hours card, with the seven days of the week in order, Monday to Sunday. The card states the main rule under its title: no hours means that day is closed.

2. Tap + Add hours on the first day

   Each day has its name on the left and the + Add hours button on the right. Tap the button for the day you want to open and a row appears with two time fields and the word to in between. While a day has no rows, it shows the word Closed in gray just below — that's how you check at a glance what you've already filled in.

3. Enter the opening and closing times

   Both fields are time fields, so your phone opens its own clock picker: 11:00 in the first, 14:00 in the second. Filling in only one of the two makes Save fail with a red message asking you to complete the hours, and an opening time equal to the closing time won't go through either — to say you're open all day, enter something like 00:00 to 23:59.

4. Split lunch and dinner into two rows

   If the restaurant closes between services, tap + Add hours again on the same day and enter the second time slot: 11:00 to 14:00 on one row, 18:00 to 22:00 on the other. In between, your page shows Closed and switches back to Open now on its own at 18:00. Got a row wrong? The ✕ next to it deletes just that row.

   Tip: If you stay open past midnight, don't split it across two days: enter 19:00 to 02:00 on a single row, on the day the night starts. We'll know the closing time falls on the next day.

5. Repeat for the other days and leave your day off empty

   Work your way down, day by day. A day off has no switch or off button: just leave it with no rows, and the gray Closed confirms it. It's worth spending a minute checking Saturday and Sunday, which usually have different hours from the rest of the week and are exactly the days when the most people open your page.

6. Tap Save and check your public page

   Scroll to the end of the page and tap Save, next to Cancel — this button saves all of Settings, hours included, and every time you save, the whole week is rewritten exactly as it is on screen. Now open qmen.us/your-code in a tab: the Open now or Closed label should show at the top and, when you're open, Closes at 23:30 next to it.

Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Opening hours

The Settings card where you set, from Monday to Sunday, what time the restaurant opens and closes.

Time slot

Each line of hours for a day, with an opening and a closing time. A day can have as many time slots as you need.

Open now

The green tag the public page, the Dashboard and the map show when the current time falls inside one of the day's time slots.

Closes at

The info shown next to the tag when the restaurant is open, with the closing time of the current time slot, like 23:30.

Public page

The page at qmen.us/your-code where guests see your menu, phone numbers, address and opening hours.

Dashboard

The owner's screen, at qmen.us/restaurante/painel/, with active orders, occupied tables, today's revenue and a shortcut to Settings.

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