Make Your Restaurant Stand Out from the Crowd
If you have a restaurant (or you are a web developer who does web sites for restaurants) consider making your menu interactive. Every day, hungry people use the web to decide where to have lunch or to plan a special dinner. An interactive menu gives your establishment an edge over the competition because visitors to your web site not only see your menu, they see mouth watering photos of your food. When people can see what you have to offer, there's a good chance that they'll walk through your door.
How Interactive Restaurant Menus Work
An interactive menu can be the same as your printed menu or your existing web site menu. The big difference is that when someone moves their mouse over (or touches) an entrée, a photograph of that entrée appears.
To get the idea, see the screen shot below.
Do It Yourself or Have Us Make Your Menu Interactive For You
Creating an interactive menu is easy with MapsAlive. Here are the basic steps.
- Create a new tour with MapsAlive.
- Upload an image of your menu.
- Pick the kind of marker you want to use for the hotspot – a transparent rectangle works well.
- Upload a zip file of your food images. MapsAlive automatically creates a hotspot for each entrée.
- Place your markers on the appropriate menu locations.
- Preview and publish your tour and put it on your web site!
If you are too busy serving delicious food to your customers, send your menu and photos to us and we can do it for you.
Works on iPad and iPhone too
Your new interactive menu will work on PC and Mac browsers, but it will also work on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. That means that people on the road will be able to see what you have to offer and be enticed to visit you in person.
To try working examples of interactive restaurant menus and to see a step-by-step tutorial on how to create one, visit http://www.mapsalive.com/LearningCenter/RestaurantMenus.aspx.
Bon Appetit!
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