Users share frustrations with restaurant website design flaws
2 Yesterday 7:14 AM · 17h ago · 1 post · 12 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 5
Commenters quickly piled on with complaints about common problems: PDF menus that are hard to navigate, missing hours and location information, outdated menus still online, and poor design choices that obscure basic information.
“Definitely make it a pdf of the actual menu in the restaurant with all that scrawly text so you have to download it, open it in a different application and then zoom in and out endlessly.”
chrisweston.bsky.socialMark Watson Comedian
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If you're designing a website for a restaurant, my tip would be: making it easy to find the menu is important, a 30-year breakdown of the founder's original vision and evolving philosophy less important.
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Definitely make it a pdf of the actual menu in the restaurant with all that scrawly text so you have to download it, open it in a different application and then zoom in and out endlessly.
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Yes. One page - the address, the phone number, a link to the menu.
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Also, opening and closing times, with exceptions (like bank holidays) called out.
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Went to a chain restaurant last week and the link to the menu on the website took you to a page all about how to open your own franchise. Anyway, we'll be opening half a dozen locations across the midlands next year.
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Amazing how many websites fall into this trap
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Before calling for two cups of kosher salt.
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And whilst you're at it, take out all the £/$ signs from the menu. That'll show 'em
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Umm to be fair though, if they’re providing the recipe for free, then some words on what that particular dish and what it may mean to them, isn’t a bad thing really. 🤷🏽♀️
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Exactly. Stick to 25. Anything more is a self-indulgent distraction.
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Ah shucks, I got to read some words before a recipe 🫠🙃🤣
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… which also mean there’s no space to write ‘tablespoon’ and ‘teaspoon’ in full, leaving your occasional readers to google ‘tsp’ and ‘tbsp’ every single time. (I suppose it’s obvious when you see them side by side but you often get ‘tsp’ alone.)
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Isn’t that because you can’t copyright a recipe in isolation, but you can copyright a bit of writing which contains it?
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