So, I’m opening a catering/ personal chef business soon and I’ve been working on my website for a while. I have an in-home menu and a drop-off menu with completely different items but I havent published it yet because I want people to be able to discern between the two with ease. Mostly, I’m trying to avoid having someone order 7 entrees, 14 sides, and 5 desserts and expect it to be delivered that day. Things need to be booked in advance. But I can’t figure out how to disable pick and delivery options.
Well if you have them as separate entries on your website, then in theory users should not get mixed up with them as they would only be ordering from the menu that they are looking at.
If your main core business is your drop-off menu then you could try publicising that more at the front of your website and having the in-home menu as a separate page, so that the people who want that particular service can go to another section.
Also, make your in-home menu have only have a seperate order form which only lists dates starting from say three days in advance for booking your in-home service.
If you are wanting to show just the one menu that shows all prices for example, so basically you are not having to do two separate menus, then you could simply have a lightbox popup or a page before you access the menu that asks if the user wants drop-off or in-home service.
If they choose drop-off menu then have your code setup to only show the drop-off prices, options etc.
If they choose in-home menu then have your code setup to only show the in-home prices, options, etc.
You can see if you can group all your drop-off menu bits into one container box and all the in-home menu bits into another container box, so that you can simply write your code to show or hide the appropriate container box instead of having to do multiple show and hides for example.
You could even have your user inputs for each menus choices setup to be shown and hide too dependant on the user choice and that way all their choices will then be saved into the correct dataset for either drop-ff or in-home menus.
Finally, you could simply make your in-home service something that you have to register first for and only get access to that menu after you have signed up, however if you are wanting both menus to have public access then this is probably not the best option.
There are many ways you can accomplish something like this, it all depends on what you are wanting to do and achieve and how much you want to do with it all etc.
" Finally, you could simply make your in-home service something that you have to register first for and only get access to that menu after you have signed up, however if you are wanting both menus to have public access then this is probably not the best option. "
This actually ended up being what I did. People can still view the menu but only people that book and pay a deposit gain access to the page to place an order for services. Best of both worlds since going through the trouble of creating a login and paying an $80 deposit isn’t something a lot of people are going to want to do for fun.