One of our North Yorkshire restaurant clients wanted a way to create menus for his food and the ability to update them quickly and easily as things changed from day to day. As we believe the best products come from “scratching your own itch”, we set about creating a plugin that would work across our Octavian websites and fit our goal of providing affordable website design.
The first version of this is now available and we are testing it on our own theme for restaurants. When we are satisfied with the results the plugin will be available to all our clients and will also be a available to restaurants in North Yorkshire as part of the Yorkshire Dales Food Network.
Once logged in to the admin area of the website the chef can create courses and assign them to menus… so, for example, you could have a starter course and add it to your A La Carte menu. The next step is creating dishes and adding them to each course. Each dish can be tagged with a list of ingredients and the site visitor can search for dishes by ingredient.
As time goes by we will add more features to make the plugin more useful and as always we’d value any suggestions you might have for improvements and features.
The restaurant theme can be adapted to fit any branding or layout and is available to use immediately.
Take a look at our test site here.
Great job with the menu plugin idea. A simple concept implemented well. I can see restaurant owners loving the flexibility it affords them and ease of updating a regularly changing menu.