Restaurant

A plugin for creating various features for restaurant sites. This plugin should be a simple base for restaurants. Don't think of it as a plugin for the fanciest restaurant in the world with 20 daily specials, 5-course meals, and every other thing under the sun. Think Mom-and-Pop restaurants, cafes, small diners, and so on.

Use this plugin as a base for the smallest restaurants. Then, build add-on plugins to extend this for larger-scale restaurants.

Version 1.0.0 goals

• Create a solid foundation to extend in the future.
• Handle menus:
  • Post type: restaurant_item (individual menu items)
  • Taxonomy: restaurant_tag (generic taxonomy)
• Set up structure for menus:
  • /menu - Menu items archive.
  • /menu/items/slug - Single menu item.
  • /menu/tags/slug - Single tag archive.

Future goals

• Build plugins that extend this plugin:
  • Menu item reviews.
  • Meal times taxonomy.
  • Courses taxonomy.

Template tags

• rp_is_restaurant() - Viewing any restaurant page?
• rp_get_menu_item_price() - Returns the price of a menu item.
• rp_menu_item_price() - Echos the price.
• rp_get_formatted_menu_item_price() - Returns the formatted (with dollar sign) menu item price (filterable for other currencies).
• rp_formatted_menu_item_price() - Echos the formatted price.

Themes

• Need to add add_theme_support( 'restaurant' ) in functions.php.
• Templates needed:
  • archive-restaurant_item.php - (menu item archive).
  • single-restaurant_item.php - (single menu item view).
  • taxonomy-restaurant_tag.php - (single tag archive).

Plugins

• When creating custom post types or taxonomies related to the restaurant menu, make sure to build with the rp_restaurant_menu_base() function, which defines the URL base for anything related to the menu. So, a course taxonomy's rewrite slug should be rp_restaurant_menu_base() . '/course'.
• Custom taxonomy and post type names should be prefixed with restaurant_. So, course becomes restaurant_course.
• Custom admin screens should go under the "Restaurant" menu item. This should be a sub-menu page for edit.php?post_type=restaurant_item.