Food
Restaurant and café websites
Somebody is standing outside deciding where to eat. Your menu has about four seconds to appear.
Restaurant websites fail in a specific and consistent way. The menu is a scanned PDF or an image, it takes eight seconds to open on mobile data, and the hungry person outside has already opened a delivery app instead.
The menu should be text on a page. It loads instantly, it can be searched, Google can read it, and it can be updated when a price changes without redesigning a graphic.
Beyond the menu, the value is in taking orders and reservations directly. Delivery platforms charge between eighteen and thirty percent. Regulars who already know you will order from your own site if it is easy, and those are the customers worth keeping off a platform.
What we build
The modules that matter in restaurants & cafés.
Not every project needs all of these. This is the menu, and the first conversation is usually about which two or three of them would change your week.
Menu as real text
Categories, prices, veg and non veg markers, allergens and photographs where they help. Editable in minutes when a price changes.
Table reservation
Party size, date and time against real capacity, confirmed instantly, with a reminder message before the booking.
Direct ordering
Takeaway and delivery from your own site, with your own delivery area and charges, keeping the commission in the business.
Multiple outlets
Location switching with per outlet menus, timings and ordering, since prices and availability rarely match across branches.
Offers and loyalty
Happy hours, weekday sets and repeat customer codes, applied at checkout rather than mentioned in a banner.
Local search presence
Opening hours, cuisine and menu marked up so you appear correctly in the map results, which is where most of this search happens.
What usually goes wrong
The four mistakes we see most often here.
These are not hypothetical. Each one is something we have been called in to fix on a site somebody else built.
The menu as a PDF or a photograph. This is the single most damaging choice a restaurant site makes.
Opening hours on the site that disagree with the Google listing, which harms your position in map results.
A full screen video on the homepage that delays the menu on exactly the connection where it matters.
No phone number in the header, when a call is still how most tables get booked.
No themes, no page builders, no plugin stacks
Every site written from scratch, starting from almost nothing and adding only what the pages need. The whole speed recipe is published, not kept secret.
Read the recipe →AI, used properlyWe use AI to go faster, not to decide
It writes the mechanical parts. It never chooses the architecture, the performance budget, or a single fact about your business. Everything is reviewed by the person who will maintain it.
Where we draw the line →Questions
About restaurants & cafés projects.
Can we take orders without paying commission?
Yes. Direct ordering from your own site costs you the payment gateway fee, which is around two percent, against eighteen to thirty on the platforms. It works best with regulars, so the site is worth promoting on your bills and packaging.
How quickly can we update the menu?
Immediately. Prices and availability are editable from a phone, and the live page updates within seconds. Marking a dish unavailable for the evening takes one tap.
Do we still need to be on the delivery apps?
Almost certainly, for discovery. New customers find you there. The aim is not to leave the platforms, it is to move your repeat customers to a channel that keeps the margin.
Other industries we build for
Logistics & Transport
Every call asking where a consignment is represents a tracking page that was missing or did not work.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Your buyer is an engineer with a specification sheet. They need numbers, not adjectives.
Finance & Lending
In financial services the website is a trust test before it is anything else. Everything about it is being judged.
Work in restaurants & cafés?
Tell us how the work moves through your business today. That conversation usually tells both of us what the software should do.