Gjusta
Bakery, Café, Catering in Venice, California
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Scope
Concept, Design, Development
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Client
Gjelina Group
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Year
2018
Client
Gjusta opened late Fall of 2014 as a commissary kitchen providing bread and other products for Gjelina Group’s other restaurants, Gjelina and GTA, but quickly grew to be much more. Gjusta is a California deli, bakery, café, and market influenced by traditional East Coast Delis, European Markets, and Parisian Bakeries.
Challenge
The client wanted to have a minimal, user-friendly, and fast but yet informative and useful website. Running a bakery, cafe, deli, and market all under one roof with a catering service comes with its challenges. Keeping up with the ever-changing large menus is undoubtedly one of them. This website also had to address placing the larger catering orders.
Solution
The solution was an app-like responsive web-based interface focused on mobile screens. The simple and minimal design joined by the straightforward and convenient navigation brought an even more native experience to the mobile devices.
Catering Orders Form
Using a form was suggested as the solution to capture the large catering orders. This decision saved a countless number of hours during the initial development phase. This approach also allowed the client to avoid dealing with the support, complexity, and the security challenges of the regular e-commerce stores.
Admin Panel Customization
We transformed the WordPress standard admin interface to simplify the management of the extensive menus. Custom fields and views allow admin to easily update, add, or remove different parts and items of each category.
