Copy and photos
Do not write "open late" if the sign says 6. Do not write 6 in schema if you mean late.
Hours tools format structure. This page is the English: closed Sundays, by appointment, seasonal Saturdays. Vague hours copy is how Cipher and Maps drift. Write the clock like a sign painter.
Write hours as you would paint them. Put that text on the site. Run hours-schema on the same facts. Do not add "always here for you" if you are not.
Sign painter rules
Days, times, closed days. No poetry. "After the game" is not a time unless you will staff it.
How to get the sentences on the page
One source.
- Photograph or write the door sign as it is today.
- Type those hours into the brief in the same order.
- Generate. Compare to the photo. If Cipher rounded 5:30 to 6, fix it.
- Build hours-schema from the same text, not from memory.
- When the sign changes, change the brief the same day, ops cluster for the ritual.
By appointment
Then do not publish walk-in hours. The sentence is the product.
24/7
Only if a human or a true always-on service answers. A voicemail is not 24/7.
Two clocks
Kitchen versus counter, ship cutoff versus door, shops page. Do not mash in one sentence.
Schema
OpeningHoursSpecification is not a place to stuff a slogan. Google's docs are linked from the hours tool story.
Limits and caveats
This is not the full ops hours checklist. It is the copy so Cipher cannot "improve" 2pm into 6pm.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Copy and photos. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
Can I say "hours vary"?
Better than a wrong 6. Worse than a true 2. Be specific if you can.
Holiday sentences?
Dates and reopen. Ops: holiday closure.
Does headline-generator write hours?
It will try to be clever. Do not let it. Hours are dull on purpose.
Overnight jobs rewriting hours?
If the brief still has the old clock, yes. Update the brief.