LetsEat.at News

Integrate Email Marketing into Your Restaurant's Website

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:27:29 -0800

LetsEat now has support for Constant Contact's powerful email marketing software. This new feature allows you to easily insert a newsletter signup widget into your restaurant website and automatically match the style of your website's theme. The use of monthly newsletters to reach your customers is essential to a successful marketing program. With an email newsletter, you can easily inform regulars about upcoming specials, closures, and other events without them having to visit your website. Email is a fast, cost effective way to connect! Find more information about this feature and how to sign up by logging in and going to My Restaurant » Constant Contact.

10 New Restaurant Website Themes

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:33:18 -0800

There are 10 new themes posted in the theme gallery. They each have an alternate version without clip art graphics, bringing the current theme gallery total to 66 (about 25-30 completely original designs with alternate versions). These new themes include a few general restaurant designs, as well as an Indian restaurant template, a Southwestern/Mexican restaurant template, Japanese restaurant template, Italian restaurant template, burger restaurant template, and a few others. There are about a half dozen more that weren't published due to time constraints, so expect to see some more appear in the coming weeks. These new themes all have a somewhat white header background-- hopefully that will make it easier to substitute your restaurant's logo for the default text header, as many of the previous themes had headers that didn't work very well with custom logo images. By using transparent dropshadows, the new themes also blend much better with custom background images, making them quite a bit more flexible than the previous restaurant website themes. After a few years of feature development, the LetsEat's basic features are about settled, and there will be a new focus on improving the quality and quantity of themes, so expect to see some cool new themes popping up. Are there any restaurant genres missing that you'd like to see? Send in a message with your ideas.

Use LetsEat to Power Your Restaurant's Online Menu... For Free!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:32:47 -0800

Using LetsEat's new external menu feature, you can add LetsEat to your existing website outside of LetsEat.at for free! It's easy: just sign up for a LetsEat account, create an online menu for your restaurant, then just copy and paste the script at the bottom of My Restaurant into your site's HTML. You can edit the appearance and size of the popup or in-page iFrame by clicking on "Edit appearance and get code". From there, you can change the colors and sizes of the fonts and background of your menu to match your current website's look. With LetsEat powering your menu, you won't have to wait for your web designer to update menu items or specials, and customers won't see a stale menu from months (or years!) ago. Try it today!

Add Social Media Links to Your Restaurant's Website

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:32:02 -0800

Building a strong social media presence is a great (and free!) way to form closer bonds with your regulars and to spread awareness of your restaurant. Promote your restaurant by linking to your Twitter, Myspace and Facebook pages with your LetsEat restaurant website. Connecting your site is a great way to gain new followers on Twitter, fans on Facebook, and friends on Myspace. It's simple: just login and go to www.letseat.at/my_restaurant/info/social_links. Enter links to your pages there, and an icon linking to each will appear in the sidebar of your website.

Need Help Getting Started with Your Website?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0800

With LetsEat's new setup wizard, creating a restaurant website has never been easier. Simply click on the "Start Wizard" link at www.letseat.at/my_restaurant and answer a few questions. It shouldn't take more 10 minutes to get from start to finish. Using LetsEat's wizard, you can quickly fill in your restaurant's street address info, populate your homepage, choose a restaurant website theme, and other basics. More setup wizards are being developed for creating online menus and setting up fonts.