A website for your restaurant
A restaurant website gets opened for one reason nine times out of ten: somebody wants the menu. If the menu is a PDF that will not load on a phone, you have lost them, and they were deciding where to eat tonight. So the menu comes first, as readable text, with booking and opening hours right behind it. That is what I build, for £240 to set up and £179 a month, everything included.
What a restaurant’s site needs that a generic one misses
The decision is being made now, usually by a group, usually on a phone, often while somebody else suggests a different place. Speed and clarity beat everything else.
The menu, as text, first
Not a PDF and not a photo. A PDF menu is the single most common mistake a restaurant site makes: unreadable on a phone, invisible to search, and impossible to change when a price moves. Text on the page fixes all three.
Booking that goes somewhere real
Whether that is OpenTable, a form that lands in your inbox, or a phone number, it is one tap and it is obvious. A booking button that opens an email client is a booking you did not get.
Photos of the food you actually serve
Your dishes, your room, your plates. People are deciding whether it looks like somewhere they want to spend an evening, and stock photography reads as exactly what it is.
Hours, including when the kitchen closes
The bar being open until midnight and the kitchen stopping at nine are different facts, and only one of them ruins somebody’s night. Both go on the page.
The delivery question, answered
Whether you are on Deliveroo or Uber Eats, do your own delivery, or are eat-in only. People check this before they travel, and the ones who cannot find out assume the answer is no.
The Google listing and your reviews
For a restaurant this is where most of the deciding happens. Your Business Profile set up in your name with the menu attached, correct hours, and photos, so the reviews you earn work as hard as they can.
A full restaurant design
Riddim Kitchen is a made-up restaurant 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 cost for the whole thing, with no extra charge every time the menu changes. Three months minimum, then 30 days' notice.
The site
The menu as text that reads on a phone, booking and hours right behind it, built round your place and live within a week.
Hosting
Quick for someone picking where to eat tonight on a busy street, backed up after every update.
Google Maps
Menu link, hours and food photos right on your listing, where diners decide, kept in your name.
Your numbers
How many people opened the menu, tapped to book or asked for directions, month by month.
Instagram and Facebook
Created to match, ready for the dishes that sell the table.
Updates
A new menu, a set lunch, Christmas bookings. Send it over and it is live, no PDF required.
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 restaurants ask me
We are on Deliveroo and Instagram. Do we need a site?
Those are rented. Deliveroo takes a cut of every order and owns the customer, and Instagram cannot be searched by somebody looking for dinner near them tonight. Your own site is the one place a booking costs you nothing and the customer is yours.
Can we take bookings through the site?
Yes. If you use OpenTable or similar the site links straight into it. If you take bookings by phone or by email, the form lands in your inbox with the date, the number of people and a contact, which is everything you need to confirm it.
Who changes the menu when prices go up?
I do, and it is in the monthly. Send me the new prices and they are live the same day. This is exactly why the menu is text on the page and not a PDF you would have to redesign.
What does a restaurant website cost?
£240 to set it up, then £179 a month. Website, hosting, your Google Business Profile with the menu on it, a dashboard, socials set up, and menu and hours changes whenever you need them. Three months minimum, then month to month.
Want more tables booked from your own site?
A short call. Tell me how bookings come in now and I will tell you straight if a site would add to them.