Dashboard for Restaurants

[roymichaeldonald]

I've made a mockup of the "dashbord for restaurants" at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ym9seZHDKcEMqub7Q18-JCBlWQa4bkRh7dT73_KotYA/edit . It proposes to structure info as follows:

1. home page (where you can toggle between restaurants if you have multiple restaurants)
2. payment info (set up stripe)
3. order processing (the main, go to place where most of the time will be spent)
4. restaurant info (infrequently edited)
5. create and manage menus
6. subitem within menu that allows creation and management of items on the menu

I wonder for the initial release if it would be simpler to just have a single menu, but I'm guessing that having multiple menus, some of which are hidden, allow for swapping them out as things evolve.

[loretta-t]

GrubHub uses this same layout for user accounts.

While I believe most of the restaurants will be more likely to make updates from a computer here's a reference for this same screen on mobile.

[justindoran]

We just put an initial draft of this interface up on the testing environment. Check it out and let us know what you think!

[loretta-t]

Thanks Justin! I've added some comments in the attached PDF. I realize this isn't as easy to manage as individual issues, but I thought I'd add my thoughts in a single document, and then we can create individual issues as needed. Hope this is helpful; happy to clarify as needed.

RestaurantDashbordIdeas09-05.pdf

[justindoran]

Thanks! PDF is fine. I'll answer the questions from the PDF, as I think most of them are already in the works:

• [ ] Those visual improvements on the initial dashboard are great and straightforward to implement, I'll get right on that.
• We're figuring out how to pause orders manually right now, but I've created a new issue to explain why it's more complicated than a switch (#35)
• [ ] The left-hand orders tab is order history, whereas the dashboard's frontpage houses the order processor. I've renamed the tab Order History.
• We're working on porting over all the edit menu functionality to the dashboard. @wkelley11 is working on that, so I've create an issue (#34 ) so he can provide updates directly
• [ ] The business information page has business addresses and hours. It was the last thing we put onto the early draft of the dashboard, so it's a work in progress. We enabled it before it was ready to allow for testing of the functionality that automatically prevents orders from being made when the restaurant either doesn't have an address or hasn't set their business hours. The polished version of the interface might clarify a lot of things going on there, and we'll use @loretta-t 's feedback as the starting point for making that part of the site more self-explanatory.
• [ ] Not part of your PDF, but we're going to include an onboarding checklist that will sit on the dashboard before order-processing is enabled and link to the help section.

Thanks again @loretta-t ! Incredibly helpful.