LetsEat! News

Add your restaurant’s menu to Facebook in two easy steps

LetsEat! is proud to announce a huge new feature: Facebook Menu Integration. With this new integration feature, you can add your LetsEat! website menu to a menu page on your Facebook profile.

It only takes two steps:

1. Go to Settings » Facebook Menu, and enter the URL of your Facebook page (it should look something like http://www.facebook.com/yourbusiness or http://www.facebook.com/pages/yourbusiness/123456)

2. Go to our app on Facebook and click the “Add to My Page” link.

The LetsEat! Facebook app has all the same features as our standard website menus, including photos, Like buttons, PDF downloads, daily specials, a printer-friendly link and multiple menu pages as tabs.

This feature is only available to LetsEat! Pro members, so if you haven’t upgraded yet, now is the time! Check out a sample menu on our Facebook page (and don’t forget to Like us while you’re there!).

Google Maps update

The map system has been updated and you no longer need to use a special API key in order to use Google Maps with a custom domain name. Time to add a map to your site, if you haven’t done so already!

More social media link options

As requested by several users, some more social media link options have been made available for the sidebar of your restaurant’s website, including Urbanspoon, Google+, and Tumblr. The old social media links for Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and Myspace are still available as before.

New site translation: French

In addition to Spanish and English, the LetsEat site navigation is now available in French! You can change the language of your website by going to Settings » General Information and altering the drop down for Site language.

Business Hours update

In preparation for some future features, there is now a dedicated system to managing your restaurant’s store hours in Settings » Business Hours. This is completely optional (your old business hours text field is now located in Settings » General Information under the title Additional Information). However, it simplifies things quite a bit, and will be required for certain upcoming features, so it’s highly recommended that you switch over.

It allows for multiple schedules, so if your bar operates under different hours, or if you have multiple shifts (Breakfast, Lunch, etc.), you can list them separately.

Mobile updates: Coupons, Google Maps, and Social Media

As of today, all LetsEat! Mobile sites have been upgraded to include some new features including display of coupons (previously only available in the full site) as well as touch-device enhanced Google Map integration and links to your social media pages.

You don’t need to do anything to receive these updates—they’re already live on your mobile site. If you haven’t added your social media links yet, you can do so by going to Settings » Social Media.

Setting up your restaurant with a custom Gmail account

Do you have email set up with your custom domain name?

Using Google Apps, you can set up a free Gmail account for up to 10 of your employees. This means that you can set up email addresses like joe@examplediner.com and sally@examplediner.com, then access them online through Gmail the same way you may already do with your personal account. All you need to get started is a custom domain!

It takes a bit of work (maybe 15-20 minutes), but it’s not so bad. For your convenience, all the steps necessary have been outlined with pictures in our help section.

Easy custom domain integration with Godaddy and Namecheap

Have you set up a domain for your restaurant’s website yet? It’s cheap and only takes a few minutes to get going!

Instructions for setting up custom domain names purchased from Godaddy and Namecheap are now available in the help section. This is in addition to setup instructions for domains from LetsEat’s domain store.

New home page design!

The home page has been updated. Hope you all like it! The restaurant console will start to receive some incremental updates as well. Keep checking here, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook for the latest updates.

Improved Search Engine Optimization for your Restaurant

Continuing the effort to keep your restaurant’s website at the top of Google and Bing’s search results listings, we’ve made some SEO improvements to the individual menu item and event pages.

Along with improved behind-the-scenes HTML markup, we’ve added better-performing, more aesthetically pleasing SEO web addresses for your menu item and event pages. The web address changes take effect for all menu items created after today, while the markup is available immediately.

Want a bullet-proof way to improve your restaurant’s search engine rankings for your home and menu pages? If you haven’t purchased a custom “.com” domain, you should do so ASAP! While our websites are automatically optimized to industry best practices for good positioning in the results, a “.com” domain will send you much higher up in the search results pages.

You can purchase a domain from our store (domains.letseat.at) or from any other domain registrar and integrate it with the instructions in our help section. Setup for domains purchased from our domain store only takes a few minutes.