What that looks like in Santa Ana.
The Civic Center lunch runs from 11:30 to 1:30 and it is jurors, county staff, attorneys and clerks with a fixed break. Order-ahead pickup on your own page, a lunch menu that loads in one tap, and a note on how far you are from the courthouse turns that ninety minutes into standing orders. An app takes a commission on every one of those. Your page takes none.
On Calle Cuatro, Fiestas Patrias in September and Noche de Altares in the fall bring the biggest crowds of the year, and family celebrations, quinceañeras, baptisms, birthdays, fill the calendar between. A Spanish-first site with a catering and party form that asks the date, the headcount and the budget, and takes a deposit, replaces the notebook by the register.
The East End and the First Saturday Art Walk pull a weekend crowd from Irvine, Costa Mesa and Long Beach who have never been downtown. They found you on Instagram and they expect a site that looks like the room: photos, tonight’s hours, a reserve button with no per-cover fee, and parking instructions for the downtown structures.