A website for your cafe
Almost everyone who looks up a cafe wants one of three things: are you open, what have you got, and where exactly are you. A cafe website that answers those three in the first screen has done its job. One that makes somebody hunt for the opening hours has lost them to the place across the road. That is what I build, for £240 to set up and £179 a month, everything included.
What a cafe’s site needs that a generic one misses
Nobody reads a cafe website. They scan it, usually while walking, usually with one hand. Every decision on the page follows from that.
Opening hours, and the same everywhere
Hours at the top of the page, and matching your Google listing exactly. When the two disagree Google trusts neither, and the person who turned up to a closed shutter does not come back a second time.
A menu people can actually read
As text on the page, not a PDF and not a photo of a chalkboard. A PDF menu is unreadable on a phone, invisible to search, and impossible for you to change when the supplier price moves.
Photos of your actual room
People are deciding whether it is the kind of place they want to sit in. Stock photos of latte art tell them nothing. Photos of your counter, your seats and the food you really serve tell them everything.
Where you are, in a way that helps
The nearest station, which side of the road, what it is next to. A pin on a map is not enough when somebody is stood outside looking at a row of shopfronts.
Takeaway, bookings, dogs, wifi, plugs
The small questions that decide it. Do you take bookings for six, can they bring the dog, is there wifi, can they sit with a laptop for an hour. Answer them on the page and you stop the messages asking.
The Google listing, kept current
For a cafe this matters more than the website. Hours, photos, and the posts that put your specials in front of people searching nearby. Set up in your name and looked after as part of the monthly.
A full cafe design
The Corner Cup is a made-up cafe business, built as a sample design. Try it on your phone.
One price, everything in it
£240 to set up, then £179 a month. One monthly price covering the lot, so a slow week never comes with a surprise web bill. Three months minimum, then 30 days' notice.
The site
Opening hours, the menu as readable text and real photos of the counter, built round your cafe and live within the week.
Hosting
Fast enough for somebody choosing a coffee while walking, with backups behind every update.
Google Maps
Hours, menu link and photos kept right where most new customers spot you first, in your name.
Your numbers
Each month, how many people opened the menu or looked up directions, in plain figures.
Instagram and Facebook
Set up to match the site and ready for the specials board photo.
Updates
Seasonal menu, a new cake, bank holiday hours. Message me and the site and listing both change.
Money back: not happy in the first two months? Every monthly payment comes back and you keep the site. The £240 setup is not refunded.
London based, working UK wide. Branding is £199 extra if you want it. Comparing? Website costs in London, us vs Wix or Checkatrade, or check your current site.
Things cafes ask me
My cafe is busy already. Why would I need a website?
Being busy with regulars and being findable by the person who moved in last week are different problems. The site and the Google listing are for the second group, and they are the ones who become regulars.
Can I put the menu up as a PDF?
You can, but do not. A PDF is unreadable on a phone, search engines largely ignore what is inside it, and you have to redo the whole thing to change one price. As text on the page it is readable, findable and I can change a price in a minute.
Who updates the opening hours over Christmas?
I do, and it is included. Message me the dates and they change on the site and on your Google listing together, which is the part people forget and the part that matters.
What does a cafe website cost?
£240 to set it up, then £179 a month, everything in. Three months minimum, then month to month. The £179 covers the hosting, the Google listing, your dashboard, your socials set up and any changes you want.
Want more people through the door?
A quick chat, no prep needed. Tell me about the cafe and I will be honest about whether a website would change your footfall.