How to get reviews for your restaurant
Getting reviews on social review sites for your restaurant is important for a number of reasons:
- Local SEO
- Creating awareness and trust in review readers due to social proof
- Learning how your visitors truly see your establishment
Sites like Yelp, Google Local and Citysearch play a huge role in the f&b business nowadays. Having good reviews on these sites is very important for any restaurant, bar, café, pub, etc. nowadays.
Read MoreQR code tips for restaurants and bars
QR codes have become more and more popular with the mobile internet revolution and growth of the smartphone market, which makes the use of QR codes by restaurants more and more important as well.
Basically, a QR code is an image that anyone can scan with a smartphone equipped with a camera and a QR code scanner program. Once the QR code is scanned, the smartphone will interpret the “code”, and carry out the function requested by the QR code.
Read MoreLocal SEO tips for restaurants, bars, cafés
Unless you’ve got a nationwide restaurant chain, you’re local. This is something you must understand if you’re setting out on increasing your Google local search rankings.
Even the best restaurant in town, the one where you can only get a table 2 weeks in advance, the one that all of your friends talk about, it is still a local establishment. Chances are that 80% of it’s customers are local, and the other 20% are tourists looking for a place to eat. Nobody is going to travel great distances for food or a drink.
Read MoreRestaurant directories for local SEO
Listing your restaurant/bar/caffé/pub website in as many local directories as possible is imperative to improving your establishment’s ranking in the search engines.
Listing your restaurant in all important directories is a manual process which will take a few hours, but you only have to do it once, so take some time off over the weekend, and make sure you get it done. To rank higher in Google, it isn’t enough to just submit your restaurant details to Google Places. Google aggregates data from the other directories as well, so you need to submit to all of the directories in this article.
Read MoreMobile compatibility overview of MyRestaurantTheme
All food service businesses (restaurants, bars, caffés, etc.) need a mobile compatible restaurant/bar website. More and more people are browsing the net through their smartphones and tablet devices, and conducting searches.
Here are some interesting stats:
– 80% of mobile searches pertain to local businesses (such as restaurants)
– 50% of these searches want contact details, such as address or phone number
Getting started with MyRestaurantTheme
Thank you once again for choosing MyRestaurantTheme to power your website. You made the right decision, as your new website will not only be modern and beautiful, it’ll include features only the most advanced (and expensive) websites could offer in the past.
If you chose to purchase only the WordPress theme version of MyRestaurantTheme, you should already have received an email from us, and have created your account on our website. You’ll be able to log in and download the latest version of MyRestaurantTheme under your account details page.
Read MoreColorization options in MyRestaurantTheme
Your restaurant is unique, it has it’s own image, colors, etc. Your restaurant website should be unique and reflect your image as well!
We’ve developed MyRestaurantTheme in a way which makes the color customization of every element of your website possible. You can change the color of every part of your new restaurant site, such as the color of your text, widgets, header and footers, etc.
This tutorial will show you how to change the colors of your restaurant/bar site, which you should definitely do, to create your site’s unique image, reflecting the image of your establishment.
You’ll have to play around with the colors to get the color combination you are looking for, but it’ll take just 10-15 minutes. Once you get the desired results, make sure you save your settings using the settings export feature.
Read MoreExporting-importing your MyRestaurantTheme settings
There are lots of settings and features to try out in MyRestaurantTheme, for example layout settings, color options, etc. Once you get the combination of settings your are satisfied with, you’ll want to export your settings and save them on your hard drive, just so you have a backup.
Why would you need a backup file with your settings? You might inadvertently change your settings, your settings could be lost during and upgrade, and it’s just good practice.
Exporting and importing your settings is very easy in MyRestaurantTheme, as you’ll see in this tutorial.
Read MoreUploading your logo and favicon
The first thing you’ll want to do after activating MyRestaurantTheme is upload your restaurant’s, bar’s, caffé’s logo to your new website. This is very important in branding your website.
This tutorial will show you how to upload your own logo to your website, as well as how to change your site’s favicon.
Again, we highly advise for you to use your own restaurant’s logo on your website, so please watch this tutorial start using your own logo rather than just the written name of your restaurant in place of your logo.
Read MoreThe various templates in MyRestaurantTheme
MyRestaurantTheme includes 4 predesigned templates for you to use.
Each one was designed to be used by different theme restaurants, but you can of course, use whichever you like. After activating any of the themes, you’ll still have full control over the colors, fonts, and other aesthetic aspects of your website.
This tutorial will show you how to select a different theme, and what each theme looks like.
Read MoreOnline Marketing Guide for Restaurants & Bars
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