I should say that they are not showing the meta description that is set at the menu item in the "publishing" tab. They do show the site's meta description from the Joomla global configuration, but that's not sufficient.

See these pages:

https://tupelopointe.com/shop/fascia-tools
https://tupelopointe.com/shop/laser-therapy

How do we fix this? I found one thread that suggested adding this, but it does not do exactly what I want:

if($this->item->get('metadesc'))

			{

				$this->document->setMetaData('description', $this->item->get('metadesc'));

			}

			else

			{

				$this->document->setMetaData('description', $this->item->get('introtext'));

			}