Restaurants & Hospitality web design agency
Your best photo may be why they never saw the menu.
The median restaurant or cafe homepage we tested took 9.9 seconds to show its main content on a phone. Picture someone hungry holding it. We build light pages that put the menu, the hours and the door first.
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Fixed prices, published
- Up to 10 pages$1,500
- 11 to 20 pages$2,250
- 21 to 50 pages$3,750
- 51 to 70 pages$5,750
Each one includes SEO, design, content writing, content management, lead forms, online booking and a year of support. See the full price list.
What we measured
86 independent Phoenix-area restaurants and cafes, tested on a simulated phone. Homepages only, totals only, and no business is named.
59median mobile speed score, of 100
9.9suntil the main content shows
9%offer online booking on the homepage
45%show a phone link and no form or booking
From our Phoenix-area website tests. A small group can swing on a few sites.
Picture dinner getting decided on a phone, with the engine running.
We put 86 independent Phoenix-area restaurants and cafes on a simulated phone. At the median, the main content of the homepage took 9.9 seconds to appear, against 6.5 across all 487 sites we tested. The median homepage weighed 3.52 MB, against 2.74 MB overall. Only 63% had a tappable phone link on the homepage. Our read on the weight is photography: a plate shot for a billboard, served to a phone in a parking lot.
We'd expect the person looking to want four things: are you open, what's on the menu, where do I park, and can I book or order. None of those weigh anything. Menu text is about the lightest thing a site can carry. So we'd rebuild the first screen around those answers and let the short rib arrive a moment later. It will keep. If the site is sound and only slow, the $399 Speed Fix may be all you need, with scores before and after. If it's past that, a new site starts at $1,500, fixed.
What we build against
- The menu is a PDF of the one on the table, and the prices changed in March.
- Google says you close at nine. The door says ten. The site has no opinion about Sundays.
- A delivery app holds the customer's name, and you got the order minus its cut.
- The holiday hours are a Facebook post from three weeks ago.
- A party of fourteen wants the back room, and the only way to ask is a phone that rings during service.
Inside a restaurants & hospitality website
What the page owes a hungry person.
Put the hours, the address and the menu button on the first screen of a phone, ahead of any picture that moves. Put the menu on the page as text. That keeps it light on a weak signal, lets search engines read the dishes and lets a manager change a price between lunch and dinner. Every package includes content management, so the person who changes the price can change the page.
Ordering is a business decision before it's a web decision. Your POS's own ordering, a commission-free service or the delivery apps: we'd put whichever keeps the most margin first and the rest behind it. Every package includes online booking and one custom third-party API integration, a natural place for your reservation tool or POS if it offers an API. Anything further falls under API integration.
Hours need one home. Keep them in one place on the site and match your Google Business Profile to it. Profiles go stale if nobody tends them, and with three copies of the hours, one is lying by the next holiday.
The pages a restaurant site actually needs
The menu, in text
Sections, prices and dish names as real words on the page. Seasonal items go in and come out without calling anyone.
Hours and directions
Today's hours at the top, then parking, patio and the door you actually use. In a strip mall, say which side.
Reservations
A booking button and the largest party it can take. Tell the group above that size what to do next.
Order pickup or delivery
Your own ordering first, prep times beside it and delivery apps after that. The order of the buttons is a margin decision.
Private events
Rooms, headcounts and sample menus, with a form asking date and party size, so the planner can write in after you've closed.
Dietary and allergen notes
Only what your kitchen will stand behind on a busy Saturday, in words the person running it approved. We publish them. We don't write them.
What keeps a restaurant site honest and quick
Photos sized for a phone
The same plate, at the size a phone can show, loading after the menu button. Unoptimized images are the first place we'd look on a heavy page.
Holiday hours set ahead
We'd set it up so you enter the Thanksgiving closure once, and the site shows it on the day and goes back to normal afterward. Then update your Google profile to match.
A list for the slow Tuesday
Only 16% of the restaurants and cafes we tested had any form on the homepage, newsletter sign-ups included. A regular who'd come on a slow Tuesday needs a way to hear about it. Email marketing is how you reach them without paying an app for the introduction.
Markup for hours and menu
Hours, cuisine, price range and the menu link marked up for search, as part of the SEO in every package. That gives Google accurate details to read. It doesn't promise a spot on the map.
Event inquiries that ask the basics
Date, headcount and occasion on the first message, through the lead form in your package. It also means the form has to work, so we test it.
The review sites you don't own
Your Yelp page has hours and photos too, and you may not have looked lately. Yelp marketing covers the profile.
Ways to waste a good kitchen
- A slow-motion pour of olive oil playing between a hungry person and the menu button.
- A photo of the menu, shot at an angle, in dim light, on somebody's phone.
- Dietary labels your kitchen can't back up on a busy Saturday.
- Sending every order from your own homepage to a delivery app, then complaining about the delivery app.
Why a restaurant would call a developer and not a nephew
Someone who'll take the weight off
The cure for a heavy homepage is unglamorous: smaller images, fewer scripts and a menu in text. We measure before and after, and the report comes in numbers.
Work that fits around service
A fifteen-minute call between lunch and dinner, a written quote and a fixed price. Nobody has to step off the line for a kickoff meeting.
Wired to what you already pay for
You already have a POS, a reservation tool and maybe a delivery account. We don't make you replace them. One custom API integration comes with every package.
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Questions we hear a lot.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
A fixed price by page count: $1,500 for up to 10 pages, $2,250 for 11 to 20, $3,750 for 21 to 50 and $5,750 for 51 to 70. One location with a menu, hours, events and ordering should fit the smallest. All of them include SEO, content writing, online booking and a year of support. Pricing has the full list.
Our site is slow. Do we need a new one?
Maybe not. Run it through the website health check first. If the design and the menu are fine, the $399 Speed Fix handles caching, images and scripts, with the scores before and after and a full refund if we can't fix it.
Can you connect our ordering and reservations?
Usually, if the system offers an API or an embed. One custom third-party API integration comes with each package, and online booking is built in. A second system would be quoted under API integration, which starts at $575 and depends on complexity. Ask us before you buy a new tool for the site's sake.
Should we leave the delivery apps?
That's your call, and it turns on your margins. We'd expect the apps to bring some people you'd never meet otherwise. Our advice is narrower: don't hand them the customers who were already on your own site looking for you. Put direct ordering first.
Who can update the menu?
Whoever changes the prices. Every package includes content management, so a manager can edit dishes, specials and hours from a login. Layout changes still come back to us, and support is included for the first year.
We have more than one location. What changes?
Each location gets its own page with its own hours, address and menu differences, and its own Google profile to match. Page count tells you the price. Our winery and brewery page may help if you also run a taproom.
What should we say about allergens?
That's for your kitchen, your local health department and your own adviser. We won't tell you what a rule requires, and we won't write the wording. Give us what they approve, and we'll put it where a diner can find it and you can change it the same day.
Will this get us into the map results?
We don't promise placement. A clean site, matching hours and a tended profile are the groundwork, and our map pack guide explains the rest. Ongoing SEO starts at $575 a month, depending on complexity, setup and budget.
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Open your own menu on your phone. Then call us.
Fifteen minutes with the developer, between lunch and dinner if that's what you've got. You'll get a written quote and a fixed price.