Color-coded monthly calendar to publish daily opening hours, buffet times, meal-service windows, and pricing for hotels, restaurants, and cafés.

Hapnics Buffet and Meals Schedule Calendar

Buffet Calendar and Meal Schedule is the easiest way to publish daily opening hours, buffet times, meal-service windows, and pricing on a WordPress site. Whether you run a hotel breakfast buffet, a restaurant with changing weekly hours, a café with coffee &amp; cake afternoons, or a seasonal resort, this plugin shows guests at a glance what&#8217;s open today and what&#8217;s coming this month.
Every day on the calendar is color-coded by a label category you control — Breakfast, Lunch Buffet, Dinner Buffet, Brunch, Coffee &amp; Cake, Closed, Happy Hour, Holiday, or anything else you need. A legend below the calendar explains what each color means and what it costs, so visitors stop calling to ask &#8220;are you serving lunch today?&#8221;
<h4>Who is it for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hotels publishing breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffet schedules</li>
<li>Restaurants with different opening hours each weekday</li>
<li>Cafés and tea houses showing coffee &amp; cake afternoons</li>
<li>Spa, wellness, and resort venues with daily program availability</li>
<li>Seasonal businesses — beach clubs, ski lodges, vineyards, beer gardens, lake restaurants — with hours that change through the year</li>
<li>Wedding and event venues marking open vs. booked dates</li>
<li>Co-working spaces, museums, and tourist sites with weekly opening hours</li>
<li>Any business that wants a clean monthly view of &#8220;what&#8217;s open and when&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why not a regular events plugin?</h4>
Most WordPress calendar and event plugins are built for bookings, classes, ticketing, or one-off events. They&#8217;re complex and overkill when all you need is to display what&#8217;s available each day. Buffet Calendar focuses on this single job — color-coded daily availability with a legend — and does it cleanly, without bookings, payments, or guest data.
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited custom label categories — add as many label rows as you need (Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch Buffet, Dinner Buffet, Coffee &amp; Cake, Closed, Holiday, Happy Hour, Pool Bar, Spa, etc.). The 6 defaults work for most hotels and restaurants out of the box.</li>
<li>WordPress color picker per label — choose any hex color for each label. Calendar cells and the legend swatch update together. Default palette of yellow, green, orange, blue, beige, and red is pre-loaded.</li>
<li>Enable / disable any label — toggle labels off temporarily without deleting them. Perfect for seasonal categories (e.g. a summer &#8220;Pool Bar&#8221; you want to hide in winter). Days already tagged with a disabled label keep their color until you reassign them.</li>
<li>Add and remove labels — fully dynamic Settings page. Each label has its own row with a textarea for the displayed text, a color picker, an enabled checkbox, and a remove button.</li>
<li>12 months at a glance — first 3 months shown by default; remaining months reveal with a &#8220;Show more&#8221; button so visitors can plan ahead.</li>
<li>Translucent color cells — each day cell is tinted so the date number and weekday/weekend background still read cleanly underneath.</li>
<li>Responsive 3-column layout — three months side-by-side on desktop, two on tablet, single column on mobile. Works inside any theme.</li>
<li>Shortcode-driven — drop <code>[buffet_calendar_frontend]</code> into any page, post, classic editor, block editor, or widget area. Compatible with Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, and other page builders.</li>
<li>Translation-ready — every visible string is wrapped for WordPress i18n. A <code>.pot</code> template ships in <code>/languages/</code>. Frontend month and day names follow your site&#8217;s WordPress language automatically.</li>
<li>English-only admin UI — admin pages always display in English regardless of site locale, so multi-language teams stay on the same page.</li>
<li>No external services — no tracking, no analytics, no third-party API calls, no telemetry. Everything stays on your server.</li>
<li>Privacy-friendly — no cookies, no guest data collection, no reservations or payments. GDPR-friendly by design.</li>
<li>Lightweight — minimal CSS and JS. The frontend doesn&#8217;t load any heavy frameworks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Open Calendar &gt; Calendar Settings, set your label text and pick a color for each. Add or remove labels as needed.</li>
<li>Open Calendar, assign a label to each day from a dropdown.</li>
<li>Place <code>[buffet_calendar_frontend]</code> on any page. Done.</li>
</ol>

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