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The menu as text, not a PDF
Dish names, descriptions and prices as words on the page. A PDF can’t be read on a phone without pinching, can’t be searched, and hands your dish names to the aggregator that did put them in text.
Website design for restaurants
Restaurant website design with a menu Google can read
The three things people want from a restaurant website are the menu, the hours and a table. Every year restaurants spend money making those three things harder to find, usually by putting the menu in a PDF and the hours in an image, and then wondering why the delivery apps own their name in search.
Every order that goes through a marketplace instead of your own site carries a commission, and every year of that is a real number. A site that takes its own orders and its own reservations doesn’t remove the apps from your life, but it moves the regulars, who are most of the margin, off them.
Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.
What the site has to prove
Four things a restaurant site has to settle in the first ten seconds
These are the questions your visitor is holding while they scroll, and a site that leaves any of them open sends the work to whoever answered it.
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Hours that are structured and true
Marked up so search engines show them, including the kitchen closing earlier than the bar, and the holidays. Wrong hours are the most common complaint attached to restaurant listings.
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Reservations and orders on your own domain
A booking that happens on your site, under your name, with your deposit policy for the big tables.
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Photographs of your food, in your room
The library shot of a burger is on nine hundred other restaurant sites. One evening with a camera pays for itself in a month.
The build
The pages we would draw and write for restaurants
This is a starting structure. You tell us what you sell in the questionnaire and the map changes to match, which is most of what done-for-you website design means when a person is doing it.
- Home Hours, address, menu link and the booking button. Everything else can wait.
- Menus Each service as real text: brunch, lunch, dinner, drinks, specials.
- Reservations The booking page, the large-party policy and the deposit if you take one.
- Private events Buyouts, the room, minimums and the inquiry form. This is high-margin work.
- Catering Packages, lead time, the delivery radius and the pricing.
- About The chef, the room, why it exists. Short, and in your own voice.
- Gift cards The easiest thing a restaurant site can sell.
- Find us Parking, transit, the entrance, accessibility, and the map.
Every word on those pages is written by a copywriter from your answers, not generated from a template and not left as filler for you to replace on a Sunday night. If you already have a site and the problem is what is on it, a website redesign starts from the same questionnaire.
What they type
The searches this site is written to answer
People search in their own words, usually on a phone, usually with a town or a near me attached. We write the pages in that language, which is the least glamorous and most reliable part of getting found.
Where you want to be found matters as much as what for. We publish a page for web design in every state and 263 cities, and if you want the map listing, the citations and the monthly writing handled as an ongoing job, that is local SEO.
- restaurants near me
- italian restaurant open now
- restaurant menu and prices
- book a table near me
- private dining room near me
- catering near me
Search phrases this kind of page is built to answer. We don’t promise a position, and anyone who does is guessing.
What we keep seeing
What is wrong with most restaurant websites
We look at a lot of these. The same handful of problems come up again and again, and none of them are about taste.
The menu as a PDF
The most common and most expensive mistake in the trade. It kills the phone experience and it hands the search results to whoever typed your menu out as text.
A splash page with music
It’s 2026 and a few of these are still live. Every second before the menu appears costs a cover.
Hours only on social media
Search engines read the site first. If the site says one thing and the profile says another, the wrong one shows up in the result that matters.
The work
Sites in and around this trade
Drawn by a designer and written by a copywriter, one business at a time. All of the examples are on one page, sorted by trade.
The price
One build, then the hosting, and nothing else
The whole price list is public and it fits in a paragraph. There’s no quote to request and no discovery call to sit through.
The build
$1once
Designed, written and built by our team, live in seven days. The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size.
Basic hosting
$8.99a month
Hosting, business email, SSL and nightly backups. Your domain is registered in your own name and run for you; the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year for a .com, is billed separately at cost.
Complete hosting
$18.99a month
Everything in Basic, and the .com itself is included in the monthly rather than billed on to you. One bill, nothing to renew separately.
The whole price list, and what each plan carries, is on the pricing page. If you want to know what everyone else charges first, what a small business website costs puts our number next to the market, with every competitor figure sourced and dated.
Questions
What restaurants ask us next
Will a website stop me paying delivery commission?
Not entirely, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. What it does is give your regulars somewhere to order that costs you nothing per order, which over a year is where the saving comes from.
Can I update the menu myself?
Yes, from the dashboard, in the time it takes to type the special. Restaurants that keep the menu current outrank the ones that don’t, because the page keeps changing and the dish names keep matching what people search.
Do reservations cost extra?
No. The booking system is part of the monthly, covers table times, party sizes and deposits, and doesn’t charge you per cover.
We have two locations and one brand. How does that work?
One site, a page per location with its own hours, menu variations, map and booking link. It keeps the brand together and stops the two locations competing for the same search.
Written for other trades too
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Website design for law firms
Practice areas, attorney bios and an intake form that screens.
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Website design for plumbers
Emergency intent, service areas and the license, above the fold.
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Website design for electricians
Licensing, panel and EV work, and a quote form that filters.
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Website design for HVAC companies
Two seasons of emergencies, plus the plan that pays all year.
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Website design for roofing companies
Inspections, insurance claims, warranties and finished-roof photography.
Every trade we have written a page for is listed in one place, and the trades we haven’t written yet get the same site anyway.
The offer
Your restaurant website, live in seven days
Answer the questionnaire and a designer draws the pages while a copywriter writes them around what you sell. $1 once, then hosting at $8.99 a month.
Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.
No contract, no minimum term and no exit fee: cancel in any month from the dashboard. Compare us with the builders on the comparison pages, where every competitor figure is read off a public page and dated.