In reply to Nate Wright.

Sorry if I missed a comment you made or anything. I often miss things if they're left on the blog, which is one reason I've moved to GitHub in the past year (for the collaboration aspect). The 95%-finished Restaurant plugin has been up there for several months.

1) I plan on allowing add-on plugins to handle the more complex items. I've actually found the opposite of what you're seeing. Most of the people I've talked to with small mom-and-pop shops and cafes tend to only need a single menu of items. So, that's the base we started with. We wanted to shoot for the smallest of businesses with the initial plugin. Anything beyond that can be handled with additional plugins.

For display and layout in general, that's being left to theme authors. But, actual use cases help in this type of conversation.

2) Theme Hybrid is already set up to allow third-party users to promote their stuff. Currently, we're just doing this with themes. But, it'd be easy enough to open this up for plugin authors. However, as of right now, I don't allow people to sell commercially through the site. Theme Hybrid has always been about $free plugins and themes.

If we had enough developers on board, I could see the potential of having paid add-ons handled on a separate site. One thing I'd like to avoid is nickle-and-diming users for every feature though. I'd much rather see a healthy community around the free plugin and free add-ons. But, I certainly know that some advanced add-on stuff (reservation system, for example) might be better developed and supported commercially.