Fuanctioning restaurants and food-related shops are listed in the FHRS
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Food_Hygiene_Rating_System

As an aside, it can be useful to retain the old name of a
restaurant/pub/takeaway so that other mappers don't re-add it...can someone
remind me what tag they'd use for an ex-name please?

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:24 David Woolley, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/03/2019 09:47, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> >
> > Near where I am are some mapped businesses properties which have closed,
> > primarily shops, but also a couple of restaurants.
> >
>
> There is more than one common way of doing this.
>
> Is the building exclusively used by the business?  If not, I would map
> the business as a point, or as a polygon covering the plan view area
> occupied by the business, and not tag the building with business details.
>
> >
> > a) A building holds a functioning business (that isn't a shop or
> restaurant
> The appropriate tagging for the functioning business, e.g. office=*
>
> > b) A building holds a functioning shop
>
> shop=yes
>
> > c) A building holds a functioning restaurant
>
> amenity=restaurant
>
> > d) A building is a former business property (ceased
> > trading/closed/moved) with no new business taking it's spot
>
> shop=vacant
>
> or
>
> disused:shop=<old shop type>
> disused:amenity=restaurant
>
> >
> > As a side note, I've been using Street Complete on Android. Is it worth
> > asking the Street Complete developers to add information about
> > businesses to their collection data, if they aren't already?
>
> I've never heard of that, so I've no idea what the developer's
> objectives were.  I'm not aware of any Android tool that I would
> recommend to someone who was not experienced with one of the big three
> PC editors.
>
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