November 2011
8 posts
Add your restaurant's menu to Facebook in two easy...
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...
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...
Mobile updates: Coupons, Google Maps, and Social...
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...
Setting up your restaurant with a custom Gmail...
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...
Easy custom domain integration with Godaddy and...
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.
October 2011
3 posts
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...
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...
Introducing LetsEat! Annual Billing
As requested by countless users over the past few years, LetsEat! Pro is now available with annual billing. This convenient new billing cycle will not only simplify bookkeeping, but will save your restaurant some cash. If you haven’t upgraded yet, now is a great time to do so!
This also marks the beginning of a period of rapid feature releases. Check this blog regularly or follow us...
December 2010
4 posts
Reorganized Navigation System
In order to make room for some upcoming features, the navigation bar in the console area of LetsEat has been reorganized into 5 tabs with sub-navigation bars: Settings, Appearance, Pages, Add-ons, and Help.
It’s fairly self-explanatory, but in a nutshell:
Settings contains everything concerning the basic information about your restaurant, as well as your user account details. In this...
Improved Mobile Restaurant Website
As requested by countless users, the old Blackberry-ish mobile site has been completely replaced by a sleek, new iPhone/Android-friendly design. While compatible with basically any smart phone, the new design really flies on iPhones with some pretty cool slide effects, etc.
You can take a look at a sample site by navigating to http://m.letseat.at/YourRestaurant on any Webkit-based mobile phone...
Some New Features in the Menu Section
The menu section of LetsEat has been overhauled in the recent weeks, and is now quite a bit different than before, especially for LetsEat Pro members.
Menu Groups
Prior to the update yesterday, menus were restricted to one long page. In other words, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Drinks all had to share the same page. With the addition of Menu Groups, that has all changed.
Menu Groups are a...
Events Calendar Updates
As many of you may have noticed, the Events area of LetsEat.at has received numerous updates in the recent weeks, and will continue to see some changes in the coming months.
Every event now has its own page (you can reach this page by clicking its title when you’re looking at your restaurant’s website), so you now have an individual URL to email to customers or post to social media...
August 2010
1 post
Uploading PDFs, images and other static files
As requested by several users, LetsEat Pro users can now upload static files to LetsEat for use with their themes and menus by doing the following:
Log in
Go to My Restaurant » Upload Assets
Upload files
Use the URL listed in your custom theme CSS or as PDF links in menus
Unlike images uploaded for use on your home page or via the gallery, these images will not be resized to fit your...