juicercafe
The bundled small-business theme — café, restaurant, neighborhood spot. Hours widget, menu sections, photo albums, events, “we’re working on it” cards.
juicercafe is the small-business sibling to the rest of the
bundled themes. It’s at docs/themes/juicercafe/ in the juicer
repo, so a clone comes with it out of the box. To use it on your
own site, copy the directory or run:
juicer theme add https://github.com/edadma/juicer.git -n juicercafe --subdir docs/themes/juicercafe…and set theme = "juicercafe" in your site.toml. See the
Demo site page for a live demo — a fictional café
(“Stratus Coffee”) — exercising every section on this page.
What’s in the box
The unit of content is a place — a café, a small restaurant, a roastery, a wine bar, a neighborhood shop. The home page is a hero image + hours widget + featured menu + photo strip; the rest of the site (menu, events, “we’re working on it”) branches off from there.
- Warm-paper aesthetic with a brick-red brand accent and a serif heading face. Reads more like a neighborhood newsletter than a marketing site.
- Light + dark mode driven by
[data-theme="dark"]overrides on CSS custom properties; pre-paint apply script in<head>prevents the dark-mode flash. - Hours widget in the topbar (when
[[hours]]is defined) — reads the day-of-week schedule fromsite.tomland badges the topbar with an “Open now” / “Closed” pill based on the current time. - Menu sections (
layout: menu+layout: menu-section) — each section is a markdown page with frontmatteritems: [...]; the menu layout assembles them into the full menu. - Events list (
layout: event-list+layout: event) — reuses the engine’s.site.eventscurated list, including weekly recurring events. - “We’re working on it” cards (
layout: working) — a designated page lists pending projects, lease applications, upcoming changes; useful for places mid-renovation. - Photo album (
layout: photo-album) — site-wide photo grid pulling from every page’sphotos:frontmatter (sorted by date desc). /visit/block — address, city, state, zip, and an optional map URL — surfaced in the footer on every page.- Author registry support — multi-baker, multi-barista bylines work the same way as juicerblog.
- 404 page that doesn’t depend on the rest of the chrome.
When to use it (and when not to)
Use juicercafe if you’re shipping a small-business site where the day-to-day questions are “are you open right now?”, “what’s on the menu?”, “where do I park?”, and “what’s the next event?”
Pick something else if you want:
- Multi-page docs — that’s juicerdocs.
- A blog with author archives and dated posts — that’s juicerblog.
- A product landing with hero + features + pricing CTA — that’s juicerlanding.
- A church or community site with sermons, ministries, and a calendar grid — that’s juicerchurch, which shares the events / photos / hours conventions but adds sermon-archive specific layouts.
- A portfolio — that’s juicerportfolio.
What this section covers
The page below documents every site.toml key, every per-page
frontmatter knob, and every [juicercafe] palette token the
theme reads. The shared theming model (palette / customCSS / file
replacement layers) is in Theming and applies
identically to juicercafe.