The challenge
Jumaira Spice is an Indian restaurant at 1 The Common, Sheffield. We designed and built their WordPress website, with an online reservation form, a full menu with prices and a link to home delivery through Just Eat.
Jumaira Spice is an Indian restaurant at 1 The Common, Sheffield. We designed and built their website. The site had three jobs: show the full menu with prices, let people book a table online, and point people who want to eat at home to delivery. Around those, it needed the details every restaurant visitor looks for: address, phone number and opening hours.
Many restaurant websites show a handful of dishes and a "full menu coming soon" note, or a photo of a printed menu that is hard to read on a phone. That leaves people guessing at prices and choices, and often ringing up to ask. Jumaira Spice has a long menu, with starters, grills, house specialities, karahis, baltis, biryanis and vegetarian dishes, and the site needed to present all of it in a way that is easy to scan. Booking also needed to be simple enough to do in a minute, from whichever page someone happened to be on.
Booking without leaving the page
The reservation form is part of the site rather than a separate page. A "Reservation" link in the header opens it, and the form also appears on the homepage under "Book your table". It asks for party size, with options from one to twenty people, a date, a time and any special requests, so the restaurant gets what it needs to confirm the booking in a single message.
The form is built with Contact Form 7, which keeps it simple to maintain. A short form matters: every extra field is a reason for someone on a phone to give up and book somewhere else. [RESULT: reservation requests through the website each month]
The whole menu, with prices
The menu page lists every dish with a description and a price, organised into sections a diner would expect: meat and poultry starters, seafood starters, vegetarian starters, the grill section, house specialities, karahis, balti dishes, biryanis and vegetarian karahis, along with rice, breads and sides.
Because the menu is written as text on the page rather than an image, it reads properly on a phone, it can be searched, and search engines can see the dishes the restaurant serves. Someone searching for a particular dish in Sheffield has more chance of finding a restaurant whose menu is readable text. It also means the restaurant can change a price or add a dish in WordPress without having a new menu designed.
The homepage gives a preview, with a "Highlights" selection of starters such as chaat, chicken pakora and seekh kebab, each with its price, and a "View Full Menu" button.
Home delivery through Just Eat
Not everyone wants to eat in. The "Home Delivery" item in the main navigation links to the restaurant's page on Just Eat, where people can order for delivery. Using an established delivery platform means the restaurant does not have to run its own ordering, payments and driver tracking, and the website does not have to carry that weight either.
Putting delivery in the main navigation, next to the menu and contact pages, makes it clear that the option exists without taking attention away from booking a table. Linking out to a third-party platform like this is a common pattern in our integrations work: use a good existing service and connect to it cleanly.
The details people check first
The address and phone number sit in the header and footer of every page, and the opening hours appear in the footer, so nobody has to look for them. The Contact page adds the email address and a message form, and invites enquiries for work functions, surprise parties and event catering.
The About page tells the restaurant's story in its own words, with a timeline from the first plans to the opening of the restaurant, and covers events catering and customer service.
Built on WordPress
We built the site on WordPress, using a restaurant theme as the base, with Slider Revolution for the homepage banner and Contact Form 7 for the reservation and contact forms. WordPress lets the restaurant manage menu items, prices and opening hours itself, which matters for a business whose menu changes over time.
See more of our web design and development work, or our work for hospitality and restaurants. If your restaurant website needs a better menu or booking form, get in touch.