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Having just moderated a talk about food and design, I have eating and designing on the brain. It seems like Squarespace has it on their mind, too. I love looking at restaurants’ menus online before making a reservation but I always find them to be so cumbersome and awkward. From poorly-designed PDF menus to flash intros to hidden navigation, I am one click away from ordering a pizza instead.
Just like any other business, restaurants need to know how important their websites are to customers, and not only the desktop experience, but mobile as well. I don’t know about you, but I usually look up a local restaurant when I’m in the car on the way somewhere (obviously not driving), walking in a neighborhood, or even just on the couch; I’m not typically sitting in front of my computer. Squarespace offers such a fantastic experience for restaurants that maximizes the important things I need to know: location, menu, contact info, and hours all while looking pretty on my computer and my phone.
Here are some of my favorite well-designed restaurant websites who use Squarespace. What their food tastes like, I don’t know but maybe you do… so please share in the comments if you’ve ever been to any of these places!
More restaurant website design goodness from Squarespace here. And, even if you’re not a restaurant owner, you can still try out Squarespace for free for 14 days right here.
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9 Comments
daniel on 09.17.2013 at 12:26 PM
Love them all
Holly on 09.30.2013 at 13:42 PM
Lovely examples! Do you know who also makes beautiful, simple, responsively designed restaurant websites? We do! :)
Bless on 03.20.2014 at 04:43 AM
You listed out great sites but they should’ve been a little more user-friendly. There’s this component that can easily administer menu. They should’ve utilized APOC Menu Manager Pro if these were Joomla sites.
Niki Singh on 08.12.2014 at 15:27 PM
Great designs. Among all these I like “Balaboosta” website most. A simple clean and elegant look, a simple background image and a black transparent body container for content. Great inspiration.
David Kutcher on 11.25.2014 at 14:36 PM
While many of these look great on your desktop computer, when 50%+ of visitors to restaurant websites are on mobile devices, and 80% of mobile visitors to a restaurant site “convert” almost immediately if the site is successful, you’d think these sites would be much, much better on mobile.
Menus as PDFs and graphics? Missing click-to-call links? Missing microformatting? I’m sorry, but restaurant websites need to be more than just good looking on a desktop; they need to look and work strategically on all devices.
Saniya Arain on 01.18.2016 at 12:38 PM
Owning and operating a restaurant is no easy task there are hundreds of things to be done.From food preparing to staffing,managing all of this can be a challenge,the restaurant website design takes a back seat to the day-to-day tasks required to run things successfully.Therefore it is important to have a website that will sell the restaurant.To make website for your restaurant you can visit http://bistroservices.com/
Saniya Arain on 04.30.2016 at 11:02 AM
Great sites, everyone of which makes us hungry.Fantastic and really inspirational designs.I look forward to more of your designs.
Dimitri on 05.19.2016 at 10:13 AM
Drag and drop website builders are real sweet for building websites for restaurants, simplicity wins in this case and complicated websites won’t do as much as good design will. Some web builders (like ucraft.me) have build in templates for specific purposes, like restaurants in this case.
Saniya Arain on 06.09.2018 at 11:14 AM
Good menus avoid crowded layouts overly wordy descriptions and unnecessary graphics. Menu items should reflect your restaurant’s theme. Updating your restaurant menu is also important to keep on top of food costs and food trends.
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