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Web Design for Restaurants
Websites for restaurants, cafes and pubs that fill tables instead of just looking good.
Tailored Approach
Why Restaurants Need a Different Kind of Website
A restaurant website has one main job: get someone to book, or get them through the door tonight. Most independent restaurant sites are built as a gallery, then lose the booking to a delivery app or an out-of-date third-party listing.
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Restaurant website design has one job: turn someone who is hungry, or planning to be, into a booking. Everything else is decoration. Most independent restaurant sites are built as a photo gallery with a PDF menu attached, then quietly lose the booking to a delivery app or an out-of-date third-party listing.
What do people want from a restaurant website?
The menu, the opening hours and a way to book, on a phone, in under thirty seconds. Almost nobody reads the story of the head chef before deciding where to eat. Get those three right and the site is doing its work.
Why the PDF menu has to go
A PDF menu is slow to open on a phone, fiddly to read, and largely invisible to search engines. When the menu is a normal web page, the dish names become text that can appear in results. Someone searching for a particular dish in your town can then find you, which is impossible when that dish is locked inside a file.
How much does restaurant website design cost?
| Build | From | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Templated | £500 | Single-site cafes, pubs and restaurants. Menu pages, booking links, hours and local SEO. |
| Custom | £1,500 | Venues wanting an integrated reservation system, event and function bookings, or several sites under one brand. |
Fixed price for a fixed scope. The pricing page has the full breakdown.
The person with the allergy chooses the venue
In most groups, whoever has a dietary requirement effectively picks where everyone eats, because they are the only one for whom the choice is constrained. Marking vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options clearly on the menu puts you into decisions you are currently being left out of. Allergen information is a legal requirement in UK food businesses in any case, and the Food Standards Agency sets out what has to be provided.
Your own site is where the margin is
Delivery platforms take a meaningful share of every order and own the customer relationship. Direct bookings through your own site keep both. That does not mean leaving the apps, it means making sure the customers who already know you have somewhere better to go.
The listing matters as much as the site
Most people find somewhere to eat on a phone, from the map results, and decide on photographs and recent reviews. Hours, menu links and images need to stay consistent between your Google Business Profile and the website, because contradictions cost covers around bank holidays and seasonal changes. Keeping both aligned is part of ongoing SEO rather than a launch task. See web design for how we build.
What We Hear From Restaurants
Common Website Problems in This Industry
Generic agencies miss these every time. We've heard them often enough to design around them.
Menu published as a PDF
PDF menus are slow on a phone, awkward to read and largely invisible to search. The menu is the single most requested page and it is usually the worst one.
No online booking
Most booking intent happens in the evening when nobody is free to answer the phone. Without online booking those covers go to whichever nearby place offers it.
Opening hours wrong or missing
Hours that contradict the Google listing cost real covers, particularly around bank holidays and seasonal changes.
Dietary information absent
Whoever in the group has an allergy or a dietary requirement usually chooses the venue. Missing that information removes you from the decision.
Photography that does not sell the food
Dark phone photographs of plated food lose to competitors with even modestly better images. Food is bought with the eyes before the mouth.
What's Included
Features Every Restaurant Website Should Have
Built into every restaurants website we deliver as standard.
Menus as real web pages
Fast, readable, searchable menu pages rather than a PDF, with dish names as text so they can appear in search results.
Booking on every page
A persistent booking button connected to your reservation system, so nobody has to hunt for it or ring during service.
Hours that stay right
Opening times kept consistent between the site and your Google Business Profile, including seasonal and bank holiday changes.
Dietary and allergen labelling
Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options marked clearly on the menu, because the person with the requirement usually picks the venue.
Food photography that works
Guidance on shooting your own dishes properly, or a local photographer, then a gallery built to show them at their best.
FAQ
Common Questions From Restaurants
Templated restaurant websites start from £500 with menu pages, booking links and local SEO. Custom builds start from £1,500 where you want an integrated reservation system, event bookings or several venues under one brand. Fixed price for a fixed scope.
No. PDFs load slowly on phones, are awkward to read and are largely invisible to search engines. A menu built as a normal web page means dish names can appear in search results, which is how people find the place that serves the thing they fancy.
It is worth having. A large share of booking intent happens in the evening, exactly when your team is busiest and least able to answer. Online booking captures those covers rather than losing them to whichever nearby venue makes it easier.
More than most venues assume. In any group, the person with an allergy or a dietary requirement usually decides where everyone eats. Marking vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options clearly on the menu puts you into decisions you are currently excluded from.
Yes, for two reasons. The apps take a significant cut of every order, and they own the customer relationship rather than you. Your own site is where you keep the margin on direct bookings and build a mailing list the platforms cannot take away.
For a restaurant the Google Business Profile often matters as much as the website, because most people search on a phone and decide from the map. We make sure hours, menu links and photos stay consistent between the two, which is where most venues quietly lose covers.
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