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…
Accepting orders through your website is a feature that wasn’t very common before 2020, but has since become seen as a necessity for restaurant owners. Managing your own orders through your website is also a much more profitable alternative to restaurant ordering aggregators such as Uber Eats, who can take up to 30% of every… READ POST
Five-Star Restaurant Reservations lets you create a schedule with as many opening and closing periods as you’d like. Want to accept reservations at three different periods during the day on weekends? You can do that. Have a schedule that changes depending on the day of the week? You can schedule for that. Need to block… READ POST
Five Star Restaurant Reservations has a number of powerful features designed specifically for when your guests are actually arriving (or not) for their reservations: automated reservation reminders at a set time before the reservation, checking in guests as having arrived for the reservation, and, if necessary, late arrival reservation notifications at a set time after… READ POST
Owning and managing a restaurant is already a very time-consuming and difficult occupation. Throw in a pandemic and it would be hard to blame anyone for feeling overwhelmed. Spending half your day dealing with a booking system that doesn’t work and that causes you to miss out on the little bit of business you might… READ POST
Over the next 8 weeks, we’re going to be covering the key features that make our plugins so useful to our users. In this post, we’ll go over the table selection feature in the Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin. This powerful option, available in the Ultimate version of the plugin, lets you set up… READ POST
As restrictions are lifted, restaurants are serving more and more people for in-house dining every day. This is great news and we hope the trend continues throughout the summer. Nevertheless, if we’ve learned anything in the last year, it’s the importance of offering your customers another option if they are unable to dine at your… READ POST
Being able to easily place restrictions for COVID 19 via restaurant booking software has never been more important. Owning and managing a restaurant is already a very time-consuming and difficult occupation. Throw in the current pandemic and it would be hard to blame anyone for feeling overwhelmed. Now imagine you have to spend half your… READ POST
With Black Friday 2020 fast approaching, we thought we’d put together a list of some of the top WordPress deals available this year, both for plugins and themes. Five Star Plugins Five Star Plugins will be offering 30% off all plugin purchases, including the Ultimate version of the Five Star WordPress restaurant reservations plugin, WordPress… READ POST
The food take-out and delivery order market has quickly grown over the past few years, reaching $300 billion USD in 2019 (1). In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, along with a temporary pause of dine-in services at restaurants has made take-out and deliveries the main source of operating revenues for restaurants. While partnering with a third-party… READ POST
