COVID-19 Unpredictable hours listed on Google Maps

The past couple days I have been trying to order a pizza from a local pizza shop and restaurant. Following Google Maps place location hours listed, twice I have been told about hours: “Oh, we are closed on Mondays” or “We don’t open until 2pm on Tuesdays.”

Yet on the hours listed their hours are listed as 11am-10pm on Tuesdays-Thursdays, 11am-11pm Fridays-Saturdays, Sunday 12pm-9pm, and Mondays 4pm-9pm. I submitted corrected hours for the location on “Suggest an edit,” but do to COVID-19 virus I understand about Google Maps listing a “grab bag” footnote “Hours or services may differ.”

These days as a Google Local Guide, I feel more like a Gas Buddy subscriber changing local gas prices every hour, related to trying to help Google users who depend on this information with accuracy.

At this time I challenge all my fellow Google Local Guides to treat yourselves as a “Gas Buddy subscriber” going out to local places frequently looking for those pieces of paper taped on window doors for new hours of service and operations.

Not just depending on a generic “Hours or services may differ.”

I understand that we all now live in unprecedented times, but now is the opportunity to pay special attention to our local places as our economy “re-opens” establishments will certainly appreciate our efforts so their customers get the correct information.

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I agree, it also has been frustrating that the actual places have not updated their websites with their new COVID-19 hours of operation. With the “Shelter in place” order, it’s maddening to go out to a place thinking they are open, only to discover they are closed.