Websites for independent restaurants.
We build your restaurant's website so a hungry person on a phone can read your menu, see whether you are open, get directions and reach you directly for takeout, a table or a private party.
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Where restaurant websites lose guests
The menu is the page people want, and it is often the worst one. A scanned PDF or a photo of the printed menu is hard to read on a phone, cannot be read by a screen reader and is invisible to search engines. Guests pinch, zoom, give up and pick the place whose menu they could actually read.
Accessibility is not optional for restaurants. The Department of Justice says the ADA covers the websites of businesses open to the public, and in Robles v. Domino's a federal appeals court held that the ADA applied to the pizza chain's website and app; the Supreme Court declined to review it in 2019. Title III has no exemption for small restaurants, and an image-only menu leaves out every guest who uses a screen reader.
Then there are the delivery apps. DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub bring orders from people who have never heard of you, but they take a commission and keep the customer relationship. Regulars who already love your food often order through an app simply because your website never gave them another way.
Small details also cost covers: holiday hours that were never updated, no mention of parking, no way to ask about a rehearsal dinner without calling during the dinner rush. Each one is a reason to pick somewhere else, and none of them is hard to fix on a site your staff can edit.
What your restaurant website needs
An HTML menu
Your full menu as real text with dish names, short descriptions, prices and dietary notes you confirm. It reads well on phones and with screen readers, and from the Professional package your staff can update prices themselves with the recorded training.
Hours, location and parking
Today's hours, holiday closures, a map, parking or transit notes and whether the entrance is step-free, all reachable from the first screen.
Direct ordering and reservation requests
A form for takeout orders, table requests or questions. From the Professional package, each request goes to your CRM tagged as “reservation”, “catering” or “event”.
Links to your delivery and ordering platforms
Buttons to your pages on the apps you already use, and to your own online ordering system if you have one, so guests choose how to order.
Private events and catering
A page with room capacity, group menus, what's included and a request form, so large parties reach you without a phone tag.
Local search structure
Location details and pages organized to support searches like “brunch near me” in your neighborhood. Included in the Professional and Advanced packages; no ranking is promised.
A sample site map
We fit it to your concept and how you sell; this layout works for a single-location, full-service or fast-casual restaurant.
Home
Your concept in one line, today's hours, and buttons for menu, ordering and reservations.
Menu
Lunch, dinner, drinks and desserts as text, with allergen and dietary notes your kitchen stands behind.
Order
Pickup requests by form or phone, plus links to the delivery apps and ordering system you use.
Reservations
Request form with party size, date and your policies for large groups, deposits and cancellations.
Private events and catering
Spaces, capacity, sample packages and an inquiry form.
About and gallery
Your story, your chef and real photos of the dining room and dishes, each with descriptive alt text.
Visit us
Map, parking, accessibility details, phone and a link to your privacy policy.
The package we recommend.
Recommended package: Website Professional
Up to 10 pages fits the menu, ordering, reservations, events, gallery and contact. It includes local search structure, the CRM with tags so event inquiries do not get lost among takeout messages, and recorded training so your team can change prices and hours. If you want guests to pick a reservation slot on their own, the Advanced package adds an appointment calendar, or you can add paid bookings as an extra.
- Build with Essential
Essential
Everything you need to look professional: who you are, what you offer and how to reach you.
- Build with Professional
Professional
Built to grow on Google: a blog, local search structure and leads straight to your CRM.
- Build with Advanced
Advanced
A complete site that also follows up and books appointments for you.
What each package includes and the total are shown in the assistant before you pay. One-time payment: 50% to start and 50% on approval.
Rules and limits we work within
- We follow common accessibility practices, such as a text menu, alt text, sufficient color contrast and labeled form fields, guided by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines the DOJ points to. We do not certify ADA compliance; a formal audit is a separate service from a specialist.
- Allergen and dietary notes are published only as your kitchen writes them. The federal allergen labeling law (FALCPA) does not cover food made to order, but some states and cities have their own rules, so we copy your approved wording rather than invent “nut-free” or “gluten-free” claims.
- If you serve raw or undercooked meat, eggs or shellfish, your health department likely requires a consumer advisory on the menu under its adopted FDA Food Code. We carry the same advisory onto the web menu.
- FDA calorie labeling applies to chains with 20 or more locations under the same name. Most independent restaurants are not covered, but if you are, the web menu must follow the same rules as your printed one.
- The site does not replace your POS or online ordering platform. Connecting to a POS, inventory or loyalty program is a custom integration quoted separately, and platform fees are paid by you to the provider.
Clear answers, from the start.
Why not just upload our menu as a PDF?
Can the website take online orders with payment?
Will this replace DoorDash or Uber Eats?
Can you make our site ADA compliant?
Do you also run restaurant social media?
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