Creating an effective marketing budget for your restaurant is essential to its success. A good marketing strategy will help you get new customers and keep existing ones returning. However, knowing where to start and how much you need to spend on each area is not easy. This guide will help you create an effective marketing…
The massive impact of COVID-19 on the restaurant industry is well known. Nonetheless, restaurants continue to be one of our favorite ways to socialize. Many of the most important moments for people happen in a restaurant. Everyone loves to go out to eat and spend quality time with friends and family. However, restaurant marketing is getting… READ POST
If you’re looking to boost the SEO for you site, structured data, or schema, is a great way to do it. According to Google, “Structured data is a standardized format for providing information about a page and classifying the page content.” For example, you can use it to tell Google that a page contains FAQs,… READ POST
With the Five Star Business Profile and Schema WordPress plugin, you can quickly and easily create your business profile and add it to your site with a simple-to-use shortcode or Gutenberg block. This automatically includes all the relevant structured data, so Google knows exactly what type of organization/business it is and can include the correct… READ POST
The template system that exists in the Five Star Restaurant Menu WordPress plugin opens a whole new level of customization for those comfortable working with a bit of code. Everything that displays on the front end of the plugin can be customized by creating your own template files (to modify and/or overwrite the existing templates… READ POST
When guests sign up for a reservation on your website, one of the biggest advantages is that you’re able to record extra information about them. Need to contact them to reschedule? Their contact information is right there in your bookings dashboard. With the premium version of our Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin, you can… READ POST
There’s nothing more frustrating than having a full reservations list, turning away paying customers at the door, and then having a bunch of no-show reservations leave you with a half-empty dining room. Our Five Star Restaurant Reservations plugin for WordPress has powerful features, to help you minimize no-shows and maximize your dining room revenue: reservation… READ POST
When guests aren’t arriving for their reservations, and reminders and late arrival notifications haven’t worked, many restaurant owners consider charging a reservation deposit fee or putting a hold on a guest’s card pending their arrival for their reservation. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to enable deposits and holds in our Five Star… READ POST
There are four ways to style the menus generated by our Five Star Restaurant Menu plugin for WordPress. We’ll go over each of them here, in order of complexity, so that users from beginners all the way to developers can understand the options they have to customize the look of their menus. The place to… READ POST
This post in our plugin features series looks at custom fields for our WordPress Restaurant Menu plugin. Custom fields let you collect additional information from your customers with their orders, or add extra information to your menu items, such as the estimated calories of an item. To get started, you’ll need the premium version of… READ POST
