How to create a restaurant website to attract new diners

Key quotes:

• "Essentials of creating a color scheme: Images and animations are a great way to engage users and build a strong connection between them and the content on your web pages."
• "Tips and tricks for using images and animations: Now that you have a better understanding of web design best practices, here are some restaurant website examples to get inspired by."
• "Check out the website: Blackhouse Blackhouse is a restaurant chain that serves great steaks and seafood in New York City."
• "Their website is one of the best examples of minimalist design."
• "Check out the website: Bobo Bobo is a restaurant in New York serving French country cooking."
• "They have one of the best restaurant websites with a minimalist yet vibrant design that goes perfectly with the brand."

Key quotes:

• "You can think of dozens of reasons, like companies providing free lunches in their cafeteria or takeout places offering cheap meals nearby, but one of the biggest is that restaurants may not always understand what busy professionals value."
• "When busy professionals are looking to have lunch outside, they value and are willing to pay more for personalized service, quality food, and no wait-time."
• "So to boost sales, it’s important to know how you can use online reservation and pre-ordering services to provide seamless, quality lunch for your guests."
• "Allset is an online pre-ordering service that allows diners to both book a table and pre-order meals, and guarantees a wait-free dining experience in under 30 minutes."
• "As diners book, pre-order, and pre-pay before they walk in for lunch, restaurants can prepare in advance and serve guests immediately as they arrive."
• "For instance, after the diner has made a reservation or placed an order, the restaurant can prepare in advance and greet the guest by name as they walk in, provide them with preferred seating, and accommodate the meal based on their dietary preferences."

Key quotes:

• "If you’ve ever attempted to use social media to grow your audience and bring new people into your restaurant, you’ve likely felt depleted soon after."
• "No matter which social media platform is your favorite, we can agree that the easiest thing to do is come up with a generic hashtag, such as #food or #restaurant, and call it a day."
• "Thanks to jumper, you can make it happen for your restaurant, too, and get people to order (or pre-order) their food directly from social media."
• "We reduced the number of steps it takes to order food — and do so easily wherever you share your ordering links on social media — down to only two: No complicated forms, going through multiple websites, calling a questionably current phone number, or any extra effort for your restaurant guest — or you."
• "The best way to do this is by encouraging your existing restaurant guests to post their photos from your restaurant to their social media channels and either tag you or use a unique hashtag you’ve specified."

Key quotes:

• "If you’re looking for a way to test new dishes, create buzz and attract new diners, pop-up restaurants could be your answer."
• "That’s because pop-ups are an affordable way to generate demand for your main location."
• "Like the dishes you serve, there are a few key ingredients you need to make a pop-up successful."
• "We’ll explain how to open your own pop-up restaurant and where to find inspiration."
• "The short-lived nature of pop-ups is used to create hype before the event and, ultimately, to generate interest in your traditional restaurant location."
• "And pop-ups aren’t restricted to culinary destinations like New York and Los Angeles or even the food industry."

Key quotes:

• "So, it’s important to do some keyword research to help you understand what your customers are searching for on Google and how can they find you."
• "10 WAYS ‘GOOGLE TRENDS’ CAN SERIOUSLY HELP TAKE YOUR CONTENT TO THE NEXT LEVEL On-Page SEO can cover many areas and it’s one for a future blog post, but there are certain areas that you definitely need to focus on for your website: Where relevant, make sure you manually include your main keywords for each page i.e."
• "what do you expect people to search for to find that page on your site."
• "And, it’s not just reviews from your customers that will appear there, but also critic reviews could appear there too: You may have noticed in the images above that various other info appears there, so make sure you include all the important information such as: Google Maps makes it very easy to look for information directly within their dashboard (and if your website is not up to scratch, then you’re not giving anyone a reason to visit your site in the first place)."