Client: Olive Bar & Kitchen

The Problem
Olive Bar & Kitchen is one of the most well-known restaurant chains in India serving Mediterranean food.

It had a website that was built entirely in Flash. Once the initial novelty with the animations wore off, the client realized that the website was:

• Difficult to update without the designer's help
• Took a lot of time to load
• Not intuitive and people were confused by the navigation
• Not crawled beyond the first page by search engines

In conjunction with The Republic, the agency handling the creative for Olive Bar & Kitchen, the client asked Pigtail Pundits to audit the Flash website and suggest how it could be made better.

Pigtail Pundits outlined the issues with using a pure Flash-based site, suggested the alternative of building the site on a Content Management System, and conveyed the advantages of updating the site regularly and how the staff at Olive could be trained to handle their own updates.

The Solution
Without too many changes to the original design, but with an improved navigation system, and zero Flash, The Republic and Pigtail Pundits worked together, to create a unique website for Olive Bar & Kitchen.

Pigtail Pundits then trained the staff at Olive – Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi on how to manage the system themselves. How to update the restaurant menus, which needed frequent updation. How to change and upload photographs into the event album, and more.

The website was built using Joomla 1.5 CMS, SlideshowPro.

The Results

• A fast loading, uniquely designed website
• The staff at the Olive branches can now update menus, events, on their own
• 100+ pages indexed by search engines

Visit the Olive Bar & Kitchen website.