While lots of people have noted the general terribleness of restaurant sites, I haven’t ever seen an explanation for why this industry’s online presence is so singularly bruising. The rest of the Web long ago did away with auto-playing music, Flash buttons and menus, and elaborate intro pages, but restaurant sites seem stuck in 1999. The problem is getting worse in the age of the mobile Web—Flash doesn’t work on Apple’s devices, and while some of these sites do load on non-Apple smartphones, they take forever to do so, and their finicky navigation makes them impossible to use.

Restaurant websites: Why are they so awful? Which ones are the absolute worst? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

There will soon be more articles lamenting terrible restaurant websites than restaurant websites themselves. Web design industry, let’s stop talking about it and actually do something about it.