May 2013
2 posts
Add mobile-specific links to your restaurant's...
If you use external services for things like reservations, surveys, online ordering, etc., you may want certain links to appear only for mobile visitors (like a link to the mobile version of a service).
Links from LetsEat! now offer the option to assign a platform (Web only, Mobile only, or Web/Mobile). This will allow you to set mobile or web only links to other sites.
You can create links to...
Add photo headers to your custom pages
Adding a photo to custom pages has been made simpler with the photo upload feature. Just edit an existing or new custom page, and attach a photo to have it displayed above the page content. It’s as easy as that!
April 2013
2 posts
Add more than one menu item at a time with the new...
It can take a long time to recreate your menu online, but starting today, Let’s Eat! has a new feature, bulk uploads.
Now, you can add basic information for up to 15 menu items at a time! It’s easy— just go to a menu in your dashboard and click the Multi-upload button to get started.
New Navigation Design
To make more room in the sub-navigation for upcoming features, the navigation has been changed to run vertically instead of horizontally, and has been spiffed up a bit as well. In addition to that, the account-level navigation links have been further separated from the restaurant-level tabs.
Hope you like the changes!
March 2013
1 post
Built-in Web Stats
Ever wonder how much traffic is coming to your restaurant’s website, or which page visitors go to most? LetsEat.at now comes with built-in web statistics for all LetsEat! Pro websites.
WIth the new tracker, you can see basic info like which sites send you the most traffic, your percentage of mobile visitors, daily unique visitors, and most popular pages.
Of course, for more in-depth...
February 2013
1 post
White label dashboard
Manage multiple LetsEat! websites for clients? Want to resell LetsEat.at hosted websites? LetsEat.at now offers an unbranded version of the log in page and dashboard for website resellers and web developers.
Rather than logging into www.LetsEat.at, your clients can log into admin.yourwebsite.com and see your company’s logo in place of LetsEat.at’s.
The white label dashboard is, in...
January 2013
3 posts
Now Accepting Discover Cards
In addition to Visa and MasterCard, LetsEat.at now accepts Discover cards as a payment method. You can update your payment method at any time by going to the Billing tab, then clicking “Update information”.
New to the LetsEat! Marketplace: SeatMe
SeatMe is a powerful application that makes online reservations, waitlist texting, and floor management a breeze through its iPad-based user interface.
LetsEat! is proud to announce that SeatMe is now available for quick installation via the LetsEat! Marketplace. Along with OpenTable, Rez by Urbanspoon, and ReservationGenie, adding online reservations to your restaurant’s website has never...
Updates to the Events Calendar
The events calendar now allows for events that occur over multiple days. When an event occurs over the course of several days (for instance, if your restaurant is shutting down over the holidays), it will pin itself to the top of your events list while it is occurring.
Just a side note— the events calendar now also uses a calendar widget for selecting dates. It should be a lot easier to...
December 2012
1 post
Search Engine Optimizing Your Restaurant's Website
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a dense topic. It is a big enough topic that many people make a pretty decent living doing it, and there are dozens of books written about the subject. However, for most restaurant owners, a few minor updates and changes can be enough to make a significant difference in terms of where you rank for select keywords.
While you may need to pay a specialist or...
October 2012
1 post
Use a standalone mobile web address
LetsEat.at automatically redirects mobile web users to the mobile version of your website. However, if you would like to add a specifically mobile web address to your takeout menus and business cards, you can now map a m.example.com style web address to your domain.
It’s simple. Just follow the instructions in the help section for setting up a ‘www’ web address, but add a second...
September 2012
2 posts
Add videos from YouTube and Vimeo to your...
Videos can be a great way to introduce your restaurant to new customers. With a well-produced video, you can show them the best your restaurant has to offer in just minutes via your website or through their mobile phone.
With LetsEat’s new video import feature, you can add a video from YouTube or Vimeo just by entering its web address! It’s that easy. No Javascript snippets or HTML...
21 updated website themes
The theme gallery has been updated with a batch of redesigned versions of many of the existing themes.
A lot has changed on the internet since LetsEat.at launched back in 2008, and the updated themes reflect these new technologies.
The new themes are wider and have font sizes that read more comfortably in tablet browsers, as well as in larger monitors. They also support and come default with...
August 2012
2 posts
Add a custom favicon for your website
Favicons are the small icons that appear in browser tabs beside the title of your website. LetsEat! now allows you to create a custom favicon simply by uploading an image file:
To add a favicon to your restaurant’s website, just log in and go to Appearance » Logo Settings.
Web or mobile-specific custom pages
Sometimes, you may need to add a widget or video embed that will only work on desktop computers or specifically on mobile devices. For those situations, you can now specify whether a custom page should appear in both platforms, web only, or mobile only:
July 2012
4 posts
New navigation layout!
The dashboard navigation layout has been redesigned to match LetsEat’s updated home page, simplified, and split up into two color-coded navigation areas: restaurant and account-specific. Also, with the new drop down selector, you can switch between restaurant websites by clicking on their name in the navigation. Hope you like it!
Upload an iPhone or iPad icon for your...
LetsEat! Pro users can upload an app icon for their website by going to Appearance » Mobile Customizations. With this new feature, when customers save your website to their phone’s home screen, they will see an icon for your website next to the native apps!
Customize the colors and logo of your restaurant's...
Did you know that over 30% of the traffic to your restaurant’s website comes from mobile phones and other handheld devices? Your mobile presence matters more than ever, and your LetsEat.at website is well equipped to handle these new visitors.
Starting today, LetsEat! Pro users can modify the appearance of their mobile website to match their logo and website’s look and feel. Simply...
Create additional logins for managers and...
Want your kitchen manager or one of the bartenders to manage your restaurant’s website without giving them your personal email and password login credentials? Starting today, LetsEat! Pro restaurants can have unlimited additional user logins.
It’s simple—just log in and go to the Users link in the top navigation to create and manage logins:
This is not only great news for...
June 2012
4 posts
Over 60 new fonts and custom colors
Tired of using the default theme fonts in your restaurant’s website? LetsEat now has over 60 fonts to choose from! Just head over to Appearance » Font Settings and you can set different typefaces and sizes for your logo, tag line, body text, navigation, and more. Also added this week is the option to change the colors of elements throughout your site.
Check it out:
Display a slideshow on your restaurant's home page
Want to show more than one photo on your website’s home page? You can do that now with LetsEat’s new home page slideshow feature.
It’s simple: just go to Home Page Settings and check the box that says “Show a slideshow from your gallery?”. Next, go to your Gallery and click edit next to a photo you want to add to the slideshow. Check the box labeled “Add to...
Display your gallery in a thumbnails only layout
The new default layout for the gallery pages is a grid of cropped, square thumbnails. Users with the old list-style layout can change their restaurant’s gallery display style by going to Pages » Gallery » Gallery Preferences and checking the check box.
Before:
After:
Translate your restaurant's website into any...
While the majority of LetsEat’s restaurants are based in the U.S., a growing number of users are creating websites for overseas businesses, often in English-speaking countries that have slightly different words for things. There’s also been an influx of users from Germany, and unfortunately there is no German translation available at the moment (English, Spanish, and French are the...
May 2012
2 posts
Reviews, Events Calendar Now Available in Mobile...
Just a quick notice—the reviews page and the events calendar have been ported over to the mobile site, so the full and mini sites are now fairly close in content. There will be a few more updates to the mobile sites content soon.
LetsEat's Facebook Menu Tabs Are Now in the...
Just a quick heads up— the menu tab widgets are now in the wider format of the new Facebook pages (they were previously narrower to fit the old style). This means that if you have a large number of menu pages, they should now fit (or at least fit better).
Here’s a screen shot:
April 2012
1 post
Create Multiple Restaurant Websites with a Single...
As of today, LetsEat! users can now create and manage multiple restaurant websites with a single email log in. It’s simple—just log in and click “Switch Restaurants” in the top navigation. This will take you to a page that lists all your websites and allows you to create more.
This feature is only available to users with at least one active LetsEat! Pro restaurant website....
March 2012
2 posts
Improved Menu Printouts
When you print out a restaurant’s menu web page online, you often see lots of peripheral junk (stray copyright information, website graphics, etc.), adding unnecessary pages to prints, and making things more difficult to read for customers.
Today, the menu pages, as well as the coupon, event, and other pages have received a face-lift in their print style sheets. When you print one of them...
Updates to LetsEat! Mobile
LetsEat! Mobile has received a few updates this past week. Notably, custom navigation links now appear in the mobile websites’ navigation and custom pages are now available there as well. Google+ is now available as a link in the social media mobile links.
All websites, both mobile and desktop, have received a minor tweak to the display of business hours. They’ve been...
February 2012
1 post
Improve your restaurant's SEO with custom meta...
Ask requested by several users, LetsEat! now allows you to customize your meta descriptions for most pages on your website. This feature is available to all Pro members as of today.
Meta descriptions are used by Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines to help determine the content of your page and frequently to display alongside your page titles in the search results.
Useful keywords...
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...
