Meet Plate Up : Bold and visually improved WordPress restaurant theme by Theme of the Crop. This theme is developed with small and big restaurants in mind. It even works for cafes, coffee shops, snacks shop or any type of food serving junction. If you are running a restaurant then you must need a website to increase local clients. And that is only possible when you create an online portal where people can see your dishes, contact details, reviews etc.
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The theme uses cool and attractive typography and featured image sections, hence you can easily draw visitor’s attention onto featured reviews and other areas. The theme combines A to Z features to help you show-off Restaurant profile detail, Contacts, Client’s reviews, Photo gallery, Reservation form and more.
Why Theme of the Crop – Plate Up ?
Many restaurant templates are available for restaurant business niche and most of them are offered with same design concept. But this theme developer decided to create some unique design that works for modern era. Therefore, they made a unique homepage by replacing carousel slider with single featured section. So you can add large photo of your restaurant and display overplayed review.
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This way, you just need one best photo of your restaurant to create strong visual presence for your business. Unlike other restaurant websites, this theme will give you number of visual assets to help you display anything on frontpage. Thanks to Plate Up for offering custom homepage layout so that user can display reviews, contacts, phone number, menus, photos and other stuff on homepage.
We liked this theme for it’s unique engaging structure which allows you to display phone number, google map and contacts on header, footer and on homepage. As a result, new visitors can easily find your location or get your phone number for inquiry or they can book table from website.
Plate Up WordPress Theme : Core Features
Most of the core features of this restaurant theme are supported by custom plugins developed and provided by “Theme of the Crop”. Therefore, you can easily manage to create Menus, Add reviews and display business profile in easy way. Once you are done installing theme and recommended plugins then you don’t have to depend on unreliable 3rd party plugins.
All plugins have user friendly options so restaurant owners can develop food menu, online reservation form/page and feature reviews in proper way. You don’t need to be coding expert in order to create and manage contents of your business website.
Below are some of the main features which makes this theme suggestible to all restaurant websites need. Please read them carefully to make better choice for your next website.
Online Booking : Most of the big restaurants provide this facility to their client’s. And you can also add an online reservation form on website by installing “Restaurant Reservations plugin”. The plugin has mobile friendly form so visitors can reserve their table from website using smart phones or any handy devices.
Apart from that Plate Up WordPress Theme allows you to add booking form onto any area : Homepage, Widget area or any page template. The plugin allows you to setup custom booking notification message and date/time formats. You can also add booking slots as per availability so client’s can pick right slot when they send you booking request.
The plugin sends admin email notification for new requests and then you can accept or reject bookings. Customers are also notified about their booking status through email, which creates strong communication.
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Menu Feature : The Plate Up theme works with “Food and Drink Menu plugin” to create menu page easily. This theme package includes advanced features of this plugin allows you to create single or 2 columns menu page. You can also add menu item to any page using widget or shortcode. The menu plugin addon offers 25 dietary icons so customers can easily check-out details about each item.
You can choose menu template with photos or without photos, add single item or choose one or two columns layout. It gives you lots of choices to come up with a unique menu template that is easily accessible by all types of users.
Best Reviews : Theme of the Crop has given “Good Reviews plugin” so that restaurants can highlight their reviews in proper way. It can not only convince new client’s but also boost your business leads easily. The plugin allows you to post reviews using star rating, core system or you can just display words of your clients.
With every review, you can add authority URL (link), Photo and name of customer. These features can increase credibility of reviews featured on your website. In our opinion, any one who is running restaurant should try out Plate Up theme.
Other Features : Restaurant WordPress Theme
- Mobile First responsive design
- Unique front page : Add featured blocks as needed
- HTML5 gallery template : Light-box
- Best widgets : Opening hours, Contact, Reviews and more
- Search Engine optimized
- Social links widget
- Unique header : Logo, Menu, Social links, Reservation link
- Contact page : All details, maps and widgets
- Home top : Wide featured image
- Full-width homepage
- Blog template
- Many other features