Is a food hall treated as a restaurant?

No. A hall or market is its own kind of business. It has no menu, no till and no bookings, and it is left out of every restaurant list.

Do I need all my stalls on Mosey first?

No. You can add a trader that has no listing, and its page starts as an unclaimed listing with a name and a cuisine. You can also choose to add only traders that are already on Mosey.

Can I edit a vendor's menu or photos?

No. A vendor's page and menu belong to the vendor. You decide who is on yours and how its stall is labelled.

What if a trader does not want to be listed?

It can say no from the email without signing in, or decline from its dashboard. Its listing stays on Mosey, and it comes off your page.

Can a hall have opening hours instead of market days?

Yes. A hall uses its opening hours, and the page says whether it is open now and when it closes. Market days are for markets.

Who can see my page views?

People on your organizer team, as a count for each day with no person behind it. Diners never see them.

Does Mosey take a cut of what my vendors sell?

Mosey is not in what a stall sells at its stall. Mosey publishes what it charges for its own tools.

Food halls and markets

Give your food hall or market a page that shows every stall and every market day

A food hall or market on Mosey gets one page of its own: the stalls, the days you trade, a site plan and the best dishes eaten there. Diners find it, follow it and rate what they ate at each stall. Your hall never takes money itself, because the businesses inside it do.

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Where do your diners look when they ask what is on today?

A hall or market lives on a stack of other people's pages: a social feed that nobody updates, a vendor list on a website from two seasons ago, a listing that shows the wrong hours. A diner standing outside wants three answers: is it open, who is in, and what should I eat.

On Mosey the hall or market is a business of its own kind, not a restaurant. Its page carries the traders, the market days, the facilities and the dishes people rate there, and it sits on the map as one pin, with its stalls tucked inside it.

Start from the listing that may already exist

Already on Mosey? Search by name and town before you add. Food courts and farmers, night and public markets are brought in from open map data as halls and markets, so yours may be waiting to be claimed. Claim it through the ordinary claim flow, and Mosey checks the claim before you can change anything.

If it is not there, add a business and choose Food hall or Market. The form asks for your province or territory, sets Canadian dollars and checks for an existing listing first, so you do not end up with two.

How do you get your vendors onto the page?

Search for each trader by name. A business already on Mosey is linked in one step, and a stall with no listing yet gets a new one with a name and a cuisine, nothing else. You can give each trader a stall label and drop a pin for it on your site plan, a picture of the floor that you upload yourself.

A trader that nobody has claimed shows on your page at once, so the page is complete on day one. A trader that already has an owner shows once that owner accepts. Whatever the status, you never edit a vendor's own page or menu, and removing a stall from your page leaves its listing alone.

One email per trader, ever, sent from Mosey on your behalf. It names your hall, says you asked us to write and carries a one-click way to say no.
A trader that says no is never emailed again on behalf of any hall or market: the address is kept as a no, and the one-click link needs no sign-in.
A file of up to 150 traders can be previewed before anything is written, with a choice for every row that matches an existing business.

How do market days work?

A market keeps its days as weekly rules plus exceptions: Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, a season that starts in May and ends at Thanksgiving, a closed Canada Day, an extra evening in December. Every date and time is in your own time zone, so a market in Halifax and one in Vancouver never disagree about what today is.

A trader confirms each coming day itself with Here or Not here, and a day that has passed cannot be marked. A hall has no market days: it uses its opening hours. Diners who follow a market and say yes to hearing from it can ask to be reminded on market days, and the morning message names up to three confirmed traders or gives the hours.

What do diners see, and what do you see back?

The page shows the traders, the next market days, whether dogs and children are welcome, step-free access, toilets, parking, seating and whether stalls take cash, cards or both. Best dishes come from ratings made at your hall once three dishes qualify, and from the traders' ratings anywhere before that. A dish or a score needs ratings from at least two different people.

Page views are counted as a number for each day and nothing more: no account, no address, no device. Followers, ratings made at the hall, the top dishes and a month-on-month comparison come as counts and trends. No diner is ever named to you, and a day nobody recorded is shown as not recorded, never as a zero.

Who else on your team can run it?

A hall run by a company, a market association or a tourism board can hold its halls through an organizer account. People are added by invitation to an owner, manager or team member seat. Owners hold the people and the account, managers run the details, vendors, site plan and market days, and team members can look. A person with no seat is told the page does not exist, so nobody can probe for it.

Mosey approves an organizer before it can change anything, and a hall held by an organizer is claimed with a review and a proof, such as an email at the hall's own domain or a document. Organizers cannot mark a trader in or out of a day: traders confirm their own.

Where the rules differ

A hall or market follows the same rules in every province. Four points matter.

What a hall or market never does: A hall or market never takes money itself on Mosey: no orders, bookings, vouchers, memberships or till of its own. There are two tested exceptions, a festival's tickets, paid to the organizer's own account, and a hall or market leading a paid food trail for its own vendors. Nothing else is open to it.
A paid food trail led by a hall or market: The money goes to the hall's own account in one charge, and its vendors are the other stops, each paid by the hall from a monthly statement outside Mosey. Every stop must be in the lead's own province where sales tax is added on top. Mosey holds none of it.
Email to traders: Canada's anti-spam law, CASL, is strict about unsolicited commercial email. The invitation is written with it in mind: it names the hall that asked us to write, goes once, carries the legal footer and honours a no without a sign-in.
Quebec: Mosey's Quebec pages are in English and describe discovery only. A hall or market there still has its page, its stalls and its days.

Rules change. Check any rule that matters to you with your accountant or adviser.

What Mosey is about

Affordable tools for food businesses
Tools priced for independents and small chains, not for the big groups.
A full suite, in one login
The tools a restaurant, café or bar needs sit together, so you are not paying for a stack of separate subscriptions.
You keep more of your revenue
Mosey is built so that more of every sale stays with the business that made it.
Free to list and claim
Your menu, your replies to guests and your photos cost nothing to put on Mosey.
No hidden fees
What Mosey charges is published, in full, so nothing arrives as a surprise on a statement.
Made for local food businesses
Mosey helps diners find independent food businesses by dish and mood, and lets people rate what they actually ate.

Questions owners ask

Is a food hall treated as a restaurant?
No. A hall or market is its own kind of business. It has no menu, no till and no bookings, and it is left out of every restaurant list.
Do I need all my stalls on Mosey first?
No. You can add a trader that has no listing, and its page starts as an unclaimed listing with a name and a cuisine. You can also choose to add only traders that are already on Mosey.
Can I edit a vendor's menu or photos?
No. A vendor's page and menu belong to the vendor. You decide who is on yours and how its stall is labelled.
What if a trader does not want to be listed?
It can say no from the email without signing in, or decline from its dashboard. Its listing stays on Mosey, and it comes off your page.
Can a hall have opening hours instead of market days?
Yes. A hall uses its opening hours, and the page says whether it is open now and when it closes. Market days are for markets.
Who can see my page views?
People on your organizer team, as a count for each day with no person behind it. Diners never see them.
Does Mosey take a cut of what my vendors sell?
Mosey is not in what a stall sells at its stall. Mosey publishes what it charges for its own tools.

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