Flavor – Restaurant Menu & Table Reservations

🎉 Flavor 2.0 is here

The biggest release so far — a workspace of its own, and online table reservations.

• Flavor now opens in its own admin panel. No more hunting through WordPress submenus: one Flavor entry leads to a proper workspace with a fixed two-level navigation, a dashboard, a streamlined dish editor and a setup checklist that ticks itself off as you go. Light and dark mode included.
• Take table bookings on your own website. Guests request a table from a booking form; you approve or decline straight from the e-mail or from the panel. Opening hours and closed days, a capacity limit, turn time, confirmation e-mails with a calendar file and a one-click cancellation link, an approval inbox, search by name, phone or e-mail — and old bookings are deleted automatically.
• Nothing you built is lost. Every dish, category, setting and shortcode carries over untouched. Only the interface around them is new.

Upgrading is the normal one-click update. If you use Flavor Pro, update both plugins.

What Flavor does

Flavor – Restaurant Menu & Table Reservations is a modern WordPress restaurant menu plugin for restaurants, cafés and bars. Create mobile-friendly food menus with categories, images, prices and a responsive card grid — then display them anywhere with a shortcode, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget or WPBakery element. Take table bookings from your own website with the built-in reservation form. No WooCommerce required. QR code table stands, EU allergen labels and multiple layouts are available in Flavor Pro.

What you get for free

The workspace

• Standalone admin panel — One Flavor entry in the sidebar opens a proper workspace: fixed two-level navigation, dashboard, dedicated dish editor, light and dark mode, and a setup checklist that ticks itself off from the real state of your site
• Unlimited dishes — No cap, no trial. Categories, price, description, featured image and sort order
• Categories — Hierarchical, with drag & drop ordering, renaming and deleting on one screen

The menu on your site

• Card Grid layout — Responsive image cards with the built-in Elegant Dark theme
• Category filter — Animated filtering on the frontend, optionally sticky while scrolling
• Subcategories — Shown as section headings when a parent category is filtered
• Currency — Any symbol, placed before or after the amount; the side is detected automatically, so $32.00 but 32.00 €
• All page builders — Gutenberg block, Elementor widget and WPBakery element, plus the [flavor_menu] shortcode for everything else

Table reservations

• A booking form on your own website — [flavor_reservation] or the matching block, widget and element. Nine fields, spam honeypot, rate limit, works without JavaScript
• You decide on every request — Approve or decline from the notification e-mail or from the panel; the guest is informed either way
• Opening hours that match reality — Per weekday, closed days, lead time, how far ahead guests may book, a capacity limit and a turn time that can grow with party size. Hours past midnight are handled as one business day
• E-mails that do the work — Confirmation with a calendar file and a one-click cancellation link for the guest, a notification with occupancy context for you
• Daily service board — Today’s bookings with the day’s covers and the busiest moment, an approval inbox, search by name, phone or e-mail, an overdue marker and a nudge for past bookings nobody closed
• Tables free up when guests leave — One click on “Guest left” and the seats count as free again straight away, instead of when the usual time is up
• Data protection built in — Consent checkbox, and old bookings are deleted automatically after a number of days you choose

Flavor Pro

Pro is a separate plugin available at flavor-menu.com. Install it alongside this one and every Pro feature unlocks automatically — nothing is migrated, nothing is re-entered.

• Multiple prices — Unlimited price variants per dish with labels (e.g. Small / Large, 0.2 l / 0.75 l)
• 7 Layouts — Card Grid, Price List, Table, Horizontal Card, Featured, Compact List, Sectioned List
• 6 Design Themes — Elegant Dark, Clean Light, Warm Earth + 3 fully configurable Custom Themes with 7 color pickers each
• 40 Google Fonts — Curated Serif, Sans-Serif and Display fonts under Design → Typography. Optional local self-hosting for GDPR-compliant delivery
• Allergens & Nutrition — 14 EU mandatory allergens (Regulation 1169/2011) + nutritional values per 100 g. Layout-specific display: 180° flip (cards), floating popup (lists), abbreviation chips (table)
• Guest Ratings — 1–5 star ratings in the Card Grid layout. No login required. Duplicate protection via localStorage + server-side IP hash
• Room planner & seating — Draw your restaurant once — rooms, walls, doors, decor and tables to scale — then seat guests at real tables instead of guessing from a list: live room view, table suggestions, moving guests between tables, walk-ins and a per-table timeline
• Reservation analytics — Covers per day and per hour, no-show rate and average party size over 7, 30 or 90 days
• Multiple Locations — Assign dishes to one or more branches and filter per location in the shortcode. Each branch keeps its own opening hours, capacity, floor plan and reservation inbox
• Badge System — New, Popular, Chef’s Choice, Seasonal, Spicy and more
• QR Code / Table Stand — Print-ready table stands as PDF. 3 styles (Minimal, Elegant, Branded), DIN A5/A6, logo upload, background image, 4 color pickers, live preview
• CSV Import / Export — Import dishes from CSV (Excel/Google Sheets compatible). Supports all dish fields: title, description, subtitle, categories (incl. subcategories via Food > Starters), prices with labels, badges, locations, allergens, nutrition values. Missing categories are auto-created. Existing dishes (matched by title) are updated. Configurable delimiter (comma or semicolon). Preview before import, per-row result report. Export all dishes as CSV. Downloadable empty template.
• SEO / Schema.org markup — Every menu outputs Schema.org structured data (JSON-LD): Menu, MenuSection and MenuItem with prices (Offer) and nutrition (NutritionInformation), so search engines and AI assistants can read your menu. No configuration required, works in every layout
• Columns & Image Ratio — 2/3/4 columns, 4:3/1:1/16:9 image ratio
• Subcategory Support — Hierarchical categories with parent and sub-headings in all layouts

Page Builder Support

• Gutenberg (native block, live preview in editor)
• Elementor Free 3.5+
• WPBakery Page Builder

Shortcode

[flavor_menu title="Our Menu"]

Available parameters: title, description, category, limit, show_filter, sticky_filter, hide_all_btn, default_category, currency, currency_position, el_class

[flavor_reservation title="Book a table"]

Available parameters: title, intro, style (light / dark), el_class

External Services

Your menu and your reservations never leave your server. All assets (CSS, JavaScript, fonts) are bundled with the plugin and served from your own site, and no menu, dish, guest or booking data is ever sent anywhere.

The plugin does use one external service, and only if you choose it:

Freemius (opt-in, disabled by default)

Flavor uses Freemius to deliver update notices and security warnings, and to handle license activation for the separate Flavor Pro plugin. Nothing is transmitted until you click “Allow & Continue” on the opt-in screen. If you skip it, the plugin works exactly the same and no connection is made.

If you do opt in, the following is sent to freemius.com and refreshed periodically:

• Your WordPress user’s first name, last name and e-mail address
• Your site’s homepage URL and title, WordPress and PHP versions, and site language
• The Flavor plugin and SDK versions, and whether the plugin is active or was uninstalled
• The names, slugs, versions and active state of your installed plugins and themes

You can withdraw consent at any time — open Flavor → Account and choose Disconnect, or use the opt-out link on the plugin’s row under Plugins. Transmission stops immediately, and the plugin keeps working.

What is collected and why: freemius.com/product/opt-in/27618/flavor-restaurant-menu/ — Terms of Service: freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy Policy: freemius.com/privacy/

Table reservations

Reservation e-mails to you and your guests are sent with WordPress’ own wp_mail(), so they travel through whatever mail setup your site already uses. No booking data is sent to us or to any third party.