Wordless Wednesdays :: Article “Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?”
Today, I stumbled upon this article written by Farhad Manjoo titled ”Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?” The article was very entertaining and analyzes different restaurants’ websites and their (generally terrible) usability, including the restaurant that uses a Flash intro showing how the chef signs his name and eventually ending up on a photo of the Fabio look-a-like chef. Interesting idea, but probably not what customers expected nor wanted when they visited that restaurant’s website.
The article discusses usability and the tension between what a customer expects a restaurant website to have and the all too often reality of the website giving them everything but. A link within the article took me to a comic about this very topic:





