Optimal URL structure for location-specific pages

[mblair]

I'm in the middle of revamping a website for a restaurant that has multiple locations and am trying to decide what the best URL/internal link structure would be.

Right now, each restaurant has a single location page, but we are going to add additional pages for catering. Sitewide-linked pages exist for /catering and /locationname. The way I see it, we have two basic options:

Option #1:

Catering page - /locationname/catering/

Option #2:

Catering page - /catering/locationname/

In both cases, there would be links from the /locationname an  /catering pages to the location-specific catering pages.

Is either option preferable to the other?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Don't think either would be different from an SEO standpoint.

i'd go the /catering/locationname/ route for cleanliness/breadcrumb structure. Unless you are going to create other service pages for each location (e.g. /locationname/menu/, /locationname/reviews/), making locations a subcategory of catering would be the way to go (and can list them on the /catering/ page)

[Allie_Williams]

I agree with Oleg; either option won't make a significant difference for SEO - but if you plan on fleshing out the individual restaurant content by adding other pages (e.g. /locationname/menu/, /locationname/reviews/) then I would go with the /locationname/catering/ option.

[mblair]

Thank you both! I appreciate the responses very much!