The Official Manufacturing Company

We noticed an interesting discussion over on Portland Food & Drink that we’ve had many times ourselves: horrible restaurant websites. Dan Wineman has summed up the frustration really well: either you’re listening to some electro-beat trying to find a menu (leading you to a huge, outdated PDF) or you’re on a mobile device and you get that sad flashplayer icon leaving you up shit creek.

So when it came time to do olympicprovisions.com, we had a huge list of what not to do. It’s not a mind-blower of a website by any means, and intentionally so: first and foremost, we wanted users to find the address, hours, and phone number easily. Being built with Wordpress, the folks at OP can update the menus daily if need be, add announcements or change the hours of operation themselves.

The other important thing we implemented is a mobile-specific style, which at this point in time should be mandatory for every restaurant’s online presence. We’re really happy with how the whole project turned out, and hopefully more restaurants get caught up to speed with how potential consumers are engaging them.