Qichen – Restaurant WordPress Theme Overview
Qichen is a WordPress theme for restaurants and other food businesses, including fast food outlets, bakeries, cafés, tea and coffee shops, seafood restaurants and caterers. It offers three homepage versions and a range of ready-made inner pages, so a site can be assembled quickly and then adapted to a specific menu and brand.
The theme is developed by ovatheme and is built entirely around Elementor. Beyond the page content, the header and footer are edited in Elementor too, which gives owners full control over navigation and contact details. Slider Revolution is bundled, and the listing states testing on WordPress 6.x, with updates continuing into 2026.
Qichen’s restaurant tools centre on presentation and bookings: several menu styles show dishes with photos, descriptions, prices and specials, and a built-in reservation form lets guests request a table without calling. Team profiles, galleries, a contact form and blog layouts complete a well-rounded restaurant website.
Key Features of Qichen – Restaurant WordPress Theme
- Three homepage designs plus numerous premade inner pages
- Several menu styles with food photos, descriptions, prices and specials
- Built-in reservation form with fields that can be added and adjusted without code
- Team section with social profile links for each member
- Premade gallery styles for different purposes
- Elementor page building, including Elementor-built headers and footers
- One-click demo import and bundled Slider Revolution
- Blog page styles and a page layout for displaying documents
- Compatibility with WPML, MailChimp, Yoast SEO, Rank Math and common caching plugins
- Responsive, mobile-first design with sidebar variations and parallax effects
Who Qichen – Restaurant WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Qichen suits Canadian restaurants that want guests to book online and browse a well-illustrated menu. A seafood restaurant in Victoria, a family diner in London, Ontario or a tea house in Richmond could use the reservation form to collect party size, date and special requests, and adjust the form fields to match how they seat guests.
Caterers and bakeries can use the documents page for downloadable menus or event packages, while the blog helps share seasonal specials and news. WPML compatibility supports bilingual English and French sites, useful for venues in Quebec, eastern Ontario or New Brunswick.
Important Notes About Qichen – Restaurant WordPress Theme
Despite the online restaurant naming, the description does not detail a cart or online ordering system, so confirm on the live demo whether ordering needs an extra plugin. One paragraph mentions building an industrial and factory business site, which looks like leftover text from another product. Reservation requests should be confirmed by staff, and one licence covers one website.
If ordering or delivery is added, provincial and municipal food-safety rules apply, with federal labelling for packaged food. MailChimp signups need consent under Canada’s anti-spam law, and bar or pub menus fall under provincial liquor rules. The owner is responsible for this compliance and for accurate menu prices, ingredients and allergens.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You select Qichen and buy the licence on ThemeForest, with ovatheme providing the theme and its support. AppiAppi installs it with Elementor, imports the homepage that suits you best and replaces the demo with your branding, photos and text. We build your menus with prices and specials, customize the reservation form to your seating, add opening hours and locations, create galleries and team profiles, and add online ordering or delivery through a suitable plugin if you want it.
After the site is live, AppiAppi looks after it. We keep everything updated, change menus and promotions, respond to reservation requests and customer messages, and deliver AI-assisted SEO and content support to bring in local diners, matched to your subscription plan.
Original design by ovatheme. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source