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Restaurants API
Webhooks
New restaurant availability API
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The new restaurant availability API retrieves information about a restaurant's availability to accept online orders. The restaurant availability API is a fallback API service for the restaurant_availability webhook, which is the most efficient way for you to get availability information about restaurants.
The restaurant availability API returns a status value that can be either ONLINE or OFFLINE. You can use information about whether a restaurant is available for online ordering to avoid sending guest orders that will not be fulfilled or that will overwhelm the restaurant when it becomes available again.
For more information, see Getting a restaurant's online ordering availability.