Restaurant Menus

The Restaurant Menu widget allows you to share your menu with visitors to your website. To appeal to your visitors' stomachs, include images, descriptions, and pricing for your dishes. Import your menu automatically using your Locu or SinglePlatform account, create an entirely new menu, or upload a CSV file. Customers who are hungry will appreciate the ability to quickly and easily find what they are looking for.

To include the widget:

1. Click Widgets in the left panel.
2. Drag the Restaurant Menu widget into your website.

For more information, see Add Widgets.

Content Editor

Click Edit Content to access the content editor. Choose how to construct your menu:

• Click Online to import your menu from an online source. See Build a Menu from an Online Source below.
• Click Build Your Own to create your own menu. See Build Your Own Menu below.
• Click Upload CSV to add a menu. See Upload a CSV below.
  

Build a Menu from an Online Source

To create a menu from an online source, follow these steps:

1. Click Online at the top of the content editor.
2. To find your business, use the search bar to find its information. Enter the URL or phone number for the company's website.
3. Choose your company from the search results.
4. Click Edit menu to make changes to your menu. You can now edit the menu on the restaurant menu widget. Please keep in mind that this will not change the menu on Locu or SinglePlatform. The auto sync will be stopped if you choose to edit the menu. See Build Your Own Menu below.
5. Enter a menu Title. Click the eye icon to hide the title.
   

Build Your Own Menu

To create your own menu in the widget, follow these steps:

1. Click Build Your Own at the top of the content editor.
2. Create categories and items to organise your menu. To create a new category, click Add category and name it.
3. To add an item, click Add item under the category where you want the item to go.
4. Click +Image to add an image to the item.
5. Fill in the blanks with the item's Name, Description, and Price. Use the Rich Text Editor to add colour, and emphasis (bold, italics, and underline), and bullets can be added to the text in the description box.
6. Click the Show images toggle to add images to an item.
7. From the currency drop-down menu, select Choose currency.
8. Enter a menu Title. Click the eye icon to hide the title.
   

Upload a CSV

To import a menu from a CSV file, follow these steps:

1. Click Upload CSV at the top of the content editor.
2. Select the CSV file from your computer by clicking Upload CSV.
3. Enter a menu Title. To hide the title, click the eye icon.
4. Click Edit menu to make changes to your menu. You can now edit the menu on the restaurant menu widget.

The menu in the document must be in CSV format.

CSV Format

Comma-delimited or tab delimited lines:

<Category> , <Item> , <Description> , <Price>

For example:

Desserts, French Cupcake, Cupcake with cream, 15.

Design Editor

To open the design editor, right-click the widget and click Edit Design. Change the menu layout, the number of columns, the text, the items, the background, the menu title, and the spacing.

See Widget Design for more information about design options that are not specific to this widget.

Categories

This editor allows you to change the categories dividers and text styles. Using the slider bars, you can adjust the height and divider style for each category. Change the font, font format, font size, and alignment to make changes to the text style.

Items

This editor allows you to change the item dividers and text styles. Using the slider bars, you can adjust the height and style of each item. Change the font, font format, font size, and alignment to make changes to the text style.