A restaurant site judged at a dinner table, on a phone.
Nobody browses a restaurant website. They are standing outside, or sitting across from someone, deciding in about fifteen seconds whether to eat with you. Almost every restaurant site fails that test for one avoidable reason: the menu is a PDF.
What actually loses you work
Four things restaurant sites get wrong.
Not opinions — the specific failures that cost enquiries, in the order they cost the most.
The menu is a PDF
It downloads, opens in another app, loads at 8% zoom, and cannot be read without pinching. It is also invisible to Google, so nobody searching for a dish you serve will ever find you. Menus should be real pages — readable instantly, searchable, and updatable in a minute.
Hours and location are buried
The two things almost every visitor came for. They belong above the fold on a phone, with a tap-to-call number and a link that opens the maps app, not in a footer three scrolls down.
The booking link is broken on mobile
An iframe from a reservation platform that renders at desktop width inside a phone screen. It works when you test it on a laptop, and fails for the 80% of people who are not on one.
The photography is doing nothing
Either stock images of food you do not serve, or real photos compressed into mush. Photography is the single most persuasive asset a restaurant has, and it deserves to be treated as one.
What we build in
Included in the $299, not quoted on top.
- A real HTML menu — readable instantly on a phone, indexable by Google, and updatable without a designer.
- Hours, address and tap-to-call above the fold, with a maps link that opens the maps app.
- Booking that works on mobile — tested on real phones, not resized in a browser.
- Local business schema so your hours, location and menu are eligible to appear directly in search results.
- Image compression that keeps the food looking like food while the page still loads in about a second.
- Copy written for you, including the section nobody ever writes: what makes this place worth choosing tonight.
Proof
Work you can look at.
Published in full, with exactly what we delivered listed on each one.
MORRA Coffee & Beans
A café and retail coffee brand — identity, menu design, packaging and social, built as one system rather than four unrelated jobs.
Bristol Auto Repair
Not hospitality, but the same lesson: one action, made obvious in three seconds on a phone.
The full portfolio
Eight published projects, four of them websites recorded end to end.
FAQ
Restaurant websites, answered.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
Can I update the menu myself?
Do you integrate with OpenTable, Resy or SevenRooms?
What about online ordering?
Do you take photos of the food?
How long does it take?
Fill the room on a Tuesday.
Send us your current site, or just the menu. You will get a fixed price and a fixed launch date back within a business day.
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