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If you are the owner of a hotel, bed-and-breakfast, restaurant, café or any other business in the hospitality sector, you can use WordPress to make a beautiful website. But which themes and plugins should you use? In this article, we’ve listed the pros and cons of some popular themes for the hotel and catering industry and recommend some additional plugins to make your online service successful
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Online you can find thousands of WordPress themes for restaurants, coffee shops, diners, bed-and-breakfasts, etc. But which one is most suitable for your company? We’re giving you an overview of the most popular WordPress themes for hotel and catering businesses.
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Divi Café is a beautiful complete theme for cafés and restaurants from ElegantThemes. The theme contains a digital menu, online ordering options and lots of space for nice product photography.
Pros:
- Digital menu
- Ordering online
- WooCommerce integration
- Great design
- Contact form
- Responsive
Cons:
- Payment module not included by default
- Reservations/schedule module not included by default
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MyCuisine is a complete theme for restaurants from ElegantThemes. The theme contains a digital menu and a page for contact information, including your location on Google Maps.
Pros:
- Digital menu
- Google Maps
- Many settings options
- Contact form
- Responsive
Cons:
- Payment module not included as standard
- Reservations/schedule module not included as standard
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Enfold is our favorite WordPress theme, and is also suitable for restaurants. With the floorplan and reservation form, your customers can book their own table in your restaurant. Furthermore, Enfold can be expanded with many plugins.
Pros:
- Multipurpose design
- Floor plan with reservation form
- Many settings options
- Contact form
- Responsive
Cons:
- No digital menu
- No ordering module
- Booking module does not block the times that are fully booked
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Restaurant Theme from Organic Themes is simple and to-the-point. The fact that you can make a very elaborate menu with this theme, makes it very attractive. The contact form is limited and depends on the Gravity Forms plugin, which is not included ($ 39 per year).
Pros:
- Simple design
- Elaborate digital menu
- Contact form
- Responsive
Cons:
- No ordering module
- No booking module
- Contact form only possible with external plugin
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Hotel California is a very complete WordPress theme for hotels, hostels and bed-and-breakfasts. The theme offers the possibility to show different rooms, that can also be booked. It includes a calculator, so visitors can quickly calculate the price of their stay.
Pros:
- Design offers space for photography
- Booking and reservation module for rooms
- WooCommerce integration possible
- Price calculator
- Responsive
Cons:
- No payment module
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Starhotel is a WordPress hotels theme with a clean design. The included booking module has a prominent position and you can easily add rooms with a specific price per room.
Pros:
- Design offers lots of space for photography
- Booking and reservation module for rooms
- Prices adjustable per room
- Responsive
Cons:
- No payment module
- Booking module does not block the times that are fully booked
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Grand Restaurant offers lots of space for photo impressions. The theme contains a menu for your products, including ordering options when you’re using WooCommerce. Also, the theme has a simple reservation module.
Pros:
- Design offers space for photography
- Simple booking and reservation module
- Ordering products via webstore
- Responsive
Cons:
- No payment module
- Booking module does not block the times that are fully booked
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With Piquant you can choose from different website layouts for your restaurant/café. You can describe your recipes and ingredients, and have your visitors book a table. Visitors can also purchase products online, using WooCommerce.
Pros:
- Practical menu description
- Booking and reservation module for tables
- Elaborate descriptions of recipes and ingredients
- Responsive
Cons:
- No payment module
- Booking module does not block the times that are fully booked
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Hotel and catering businesses often need additional functionalities on their WordPress website. Think of a booking system for a bed-and-breakfast, a reservation module for a diner, an online menu and payment methods for a take-away and ordering forms for ordering online. Not every theme contains all the functionalities you need. That is why we describe a few plugins you can use as an addition to your WordPress theme to complete the website for your restaurant or café.
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WooCommerce adds a webstore functionality to WordPress. This allows customers to buy meals, but also to pay for the reservation of their room or apartment. Plus, there are loads of plugins and extensions for WooCommerce, so it has many possibilities.
Pros:
- Free base product
- E-commerce integrates with WordPress
- Many plugins and extensions
- Many themes are compatible with WooCommerce
Cons:
- The base product is free, but the extensions are usually not
- Complex software, also read our webstore comparison
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Our favorite plugin for building webforms is so extensive that it can even be used as a basic ordering system. Are you subletting a few rooms per month? Don’t get into an entire webstore package, but start out with Gravity Forms. With a few clicks, you create an ordering form, place it on your ordering page, and you’re ready to go.
Pros:
- Easy installment
- Drag and drop form builder
- Conditional logic offers many possibilities
- Elaborate online documentation
- Many themes support styling for Gravity Forms
Cons:
- The form styling is not very modern
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With Pinpoint Booking System you can process the reservations of, for example, rooms on your website, including payment. The plugin is very useful for, for example, hotels and bed-and-breakfasts.
Pros:
- Very versatile plugin with many options
- Organized back end
- Can be linked with payment module (Mollie)
- Options to add discounts, additional costs and upsells
Cons:
- For price exceptions (per room), you need to create separate forms
- Configuring the plugin takes some time
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Just like with Pinpoint Booking System, you can use BirchPress Scheduler to handle the reservations and payments of the tables or rooms on your website. Additionally, BirchPress offers synchronization with an external schedule, so you can also see the reservations, for example, on your phone. This plugin is exceptionally suitable for restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts.
Pros:
- Elaborate plugin with many settings options
- Link to external schedule feed
- Organized backend
- Many payment modules possible
Cons:
- It takes some time to get to know the plugin
- Payment modules via WooCommerce are versatile, but complex
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Booked Appointments is a lesser-known, but a very nice plugin with a clean design, that may be exactly what you need for some target groups. Visitors can pick a date, schedule a time slot, and then leave their contact info. Optionally they can even make a payment with a WooCommerce payment module.
Pros:
- Plugin has a clean design
- Compact display of schedule and dates
- Can be synchronized with an external schedule feed
- Many payment modules possible
- Form fields are configurable
Cons:
- External schedule feed is read-only (reservations are not saved into the schedule)
- Plugin is not easily extended with add-ons
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