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A website for your restaurant does not have to be another problem for your business, rather it should be a springboard for it to grow in quantity and quality of potential and existing customers.
However, many businesses, from all walks of life, make a mistake, and that is to resort to tailor-made solutions in web development.
Why is it a mistake? Because a custom web page is very expensive, it goes out of date quickly and you will always depend on a developer to update your information. And that is not cheap.
The best option is a CMS, or content manager, being WordPress the CMS par excellence: it is free, free, scalable, and with a not very steep and long learning curve. Yes, you still need an expert, but you can learn and manage it yourself.
If your website is made with WordPress, or if you are just planning it, here are the best themes for restaurant websites.
1. TheGem
This theme is one of the most valued in WordPress because it has many features that, individually, each cost the same or more than the theme itself.
It is not an exclusive theme for restaurants, but it has two designs or skins that are and are simply spectacular.
The bad thing is that it depends on Visual Composer, and if you change the theme, you will have to rebuild all the content.
Behind the layout is Codex-themes, which guarantees an excellent customization and support service.
2. X
This theme is perhaps the best selling and most valued on ThemeForest (175.000 sales) and is made up of a lot of premium material, demos and more.
It has a section for restaurants, but it is fully customizable.
It is a monster, and whatever you want to do, you can do with this theme, now designing and customizing it will not be an easy task, some plugins require some technical knowledge …
The Demo offered by its creators, THEME.CO, is multipurpose, and we will show you its restaurant category …
3. Downtown
This theme is from TeslaThemes, one of the newest companies specializing in WordPress.
It presents us with a very light, simple template, with a minimalist look, with the strictly basic for a restaurant:
- Menu
- Reservation page
- Merely visual aspect.
- Full responsive to view it on any device.
Without a doubt an excellent option.
4. Grand Restaurant
This theme is totally made for restaurants, and to make it even easier, it has created different demos for each type of restaurant, and has different models of covers, menu pages, contact pages, etc. In addition, you can import them with one click and edit them later yourself.
Its creators Theme Goods, make available to webmasters a magnificent resource to build a professional website that provides what is necessary to help position themselves and with a highly optimized code structure.
5. Divi
Divi is not a proper restaurant theme. His Elegant Themes creators constantly grow with him as a true layout engine.
It is rather the Swiss army knife of themes with which you can design and build whatever you want, just by dragging elements.
Okay, it’s not that extremely simple, but its learning curve is very shallow.
How to choose the correct theme?
I have only shown you five themes, but if you do a search, you will find hundreds, maybe thousands, of themes available, free, cheap and very expensive … how to choose well? It is a very broad topic, but I will try to help you.
I give you some keys to know if it is a good purchase or not:
- Check two things in the “changelog” section: the date of the last theme update (if it is very old, it won’t work for you) and the periodicity of the updates (if it isn’t updated frequently, it won’t work for you either)
- Analyze the duration of the license: if it is for life, by annual payment. It is key to your budget
- Check that it meets the basic standards: that it is compatible with all devices, that it is fast (1-2 seconds)
- Make it easily customizable
- Check the dependency it has on other plugins and that it includes their respective updates.
After analyzing, you will be able to better elucidate if it is a good option.