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Use cases

A website for a restaurant

The guest is looking for the menu, the prices and the opening hours. Usually on a phone and usually on the move.

Scenarios

Three situations that cost you guests

On most restaurant websites each of them ends with a new PDF file.

A change of supplier

You put prices up on the menu

The artwork has to be reworked, exported to PDF and uploaded. It usually ends with the old menu staying on the site.

In LessCMS: you change the price in the field on the dish. The menu on the site updates in the same second.

The season is over

You take the seasonal dishes down

Summer soups hang on the menu until November, because removing them from the file is another job for a designer.

In LessCMS: you switch the dish off with a toggle. It stays in the database and you switch it back on next year in one click.

Saturday, 1pm

A guest looks for the menu on their phone

They get a PDF they have to pinch-zoom. Half of them close the page and keep looking.

In LessCMS: the menu is an ordinary page — it reads on a phone just as it does on a computer.

Content model

One dish is one entry

The menu is a list of dishes with a category. Order, grouping and dietary tags are set in a form.

  • A price change in a minute, from your phone too
  • Seasonal dishes are switched on and off, not deleted
  • Dietary tags instead of asterisks and footnotes
text Dish name
rich text Ingredients
number Price
select Category
toggle Available now
select Vegetarian, spicy, gluten-free
What you build

The site you will end up with

The menu splits into categories automatically, based on a field on the dish.

/ photos of the place, hours, booking /menu the whole menu grouped by category /menu/mains a separate category page /about the story of the place and the team /contact map, hours, phone
Where to start

Three steps to get going

1

Type up the menu

Once, dish by dish. After that you only change what changes.

2

Set your hours and contact details

They go on the site and into the data Google reads.

3

Connect your domain

The old site can redirect to the new one without losing rankings.

A menu you can change before opening

Create an account and type up the first ten dishes. You will see how long it takes.