Meet more of the designers behind your favorite restaurant websites

Stacy Krokha
BentoBox Design
Published in
3 min readJul 29, 2021

Say hello to our newest members of the team!

Chris Nervegna — Junior Web Designer

I’m Chris! Nice to meet me. How do you like your eggs in the morning?

If I’m not designing/coding websites, I’m either playing a round of golf, grilling, or watching The Office for the 1,545,809th time…

What inspires your thinking about design? What gets you most excited to create?

I swear I get most excited to design at the most random times. It could be…

  • while I’m food shopping
  • walking my dog, Remy
  • cooking dinner
  • watching a movie

But when it hits, I like to bottle it up and try to get to my MacBook or iPad asap and flesh out any ideas going on in my head. Even better if I’m able to sit comfortably at my workstation, throw on my Spotify Playlist (example songs below), throw some oils in my diffuser, and have Alexa change the color of my Phillips Hue Lights (not sponsored).

What is your motto in life?

“Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever…”

Make a five song playlist.

  • Real Love Baby by Father John Misty
  • Saturdays by Twin Shadow & HAIM
  • People Need a Melody by The Head & The Heart
  • Nostalgic by ARIZONA
  • Can I Believe You by Fleet Foxes

Favorite Restaurant website?

  • Sidekick
  • When applying for BentoBox, I remember stumbling upon this customer site. I’m a sucker for bold, loud websites with great typography. I loved the way this site implements the various illustrations, patterns, and beautiful photography. It’s busy, but the menu and content is easily legible.

Written by Chris Nervegna

Ricardo Cortes — Senior Brand Designer

What is your motto in life?

I like to follow 3 things

  1. Fail fast and fail often
  2. Simplify
  3. Love

Make a five-song playlist.

  1. Dead of Night — Orville Peck
  2. I fold you — Elder Islands
  3. Apricots — Bicep
  4. Caught in a wave — Simian Mobile Disco
  5. Heartbeats — The knife

What inspires your thinking about design? What gets you most excited to create?

Clean communication, we live in a chaotic visual environment and achieving clean intuitive solutions makes me love my work.

The process, the ups and downs, the stress, the satisfaction to create something meaningful

Favorite Restaurant website?

Non-Bento Box
https://www.cevitxef.com/

Bento Box
http://www.eatuncooked.com/

Written by Ricardo Cortes

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