A menu page written in real text.
Every dish and every price set as text a phone can read out loud and a search engine can index. When the price of the pork chop changes, you email us and we change it.
Dinner gets decided in a parked car
Four people are sitting in a lot off Grand Avenue arguing about where to eat, and one of them is holding the phone. Your website has about twenty seconds to win that argument.
Restaurant web design in Lake County, Illinois, built around the menu, the hours, and the phone
Nobody browses a restaurant website. They check three things and leave.
They want to know whether you are open right now, what you cook, and what it costs. If any of that takes more than a couple of taps, they open the page for the place two doors down.
The menu is where most restaurant sites fall apart. It is a PDF scanned from a printed sheet, and it is unreadable on a phone until you pinch and drag your way around it. Google cannot read it either, so the dish you are known for never turns up in a search.
You may also have been through a web company that held your site hostage. That is a different problem and we deal with it plainly further down this page.
What a diner needs from your site
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Whether you are open tonight.
Today's hours, in text, near the top of every page. Holiday hours too. A Monday closure nobody published costs you a table.
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The menu as actual text.
Every section, every dish, every price, readable without zooming. A PDF is a wall.
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Your phone number, one tap away.
A party of six, a peanut allergy, a question about the patio. People still call a restaurant.
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How to find the door.
A tap that opens their map app. A storefront on Rollins Road is easy to drive past twice. We list the towns we build for on our service area page.
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How to order or hold a table.
If you take reservations, say where. If delivery runs through a service, link it. Say what you do not do, too.
What we build into a site like yours
Hours that are easy to keep honest.
One place to edit, showing on every page. Send us your holiday hours and we put them up before the holiday instead of after it.
Phone and directions above everything else.
Fixed to the bottom of the phone layout, so tap-to-call and tap-for-directions are on screen however far down the page somebody has scrolled.
Links out to the tools you already run on.
Your reservation book, your online ordering, your delivery listings, your gift cards. We link to each one and label where the button goes. We do not replace them and we do not promise to connect to them.
Photos that load before the light changes.
We crop, size, and compress every photo so a page full of food opens fast on a phone with two bars in a parking lot.
What it costs
$0 website build fee. $297 a month. That covers the build, the hosting, one domain up to $25 a year, and small updates through the year. For a restaurant that is the part that matters: menu prices, a new dish, your hours, your holiday hours, and photos. Send them over and we make the change. A new page or a redesign is quoted separately. Every price and every term is written out in one place.
The Enhanced plan is $349 a month. It adds an online booking calendar you can point at reservations or private events, a chat widget that turns a question about the patio into a text on your phone, and online payments and invoices if you sell gift cards or take deposits for parties. Connecting payments is a one-time $199 setup.
You read the whole site on a private link before anything goes live. Billing starts the day you approve it, prorated for the days left in that month. See how the build itself runs, step by step.
What happens if you want out
Cancel any month with at least five business days' notice before the end of the month. Your site stays online through the month you paid for, plus a five-day grace period after it. There is no cancellation fee.
Your domain goes with you. If we registered it, the transfer is free after three months of service and $50 if you cancel before that. The monthly plan does not transfer the website design to you. To move the site elsewhere, tell us where it is going and we will quote the port before you decide anything.
We put those terms on this page on purpose. They are the sentences a web company should say before you sign, not after you try to leave.
Questions restaurant owners ask us
Can I change the menu myself?
No. You email or call us and we change it. Prices, dishes, hours, and photos are small updates, and they are part of the monthly plan at no extra charge. The blog is the part you run yourself, and the editor for it comes with every site.
Can you put my menu up as a PDF?
We will link a PDF if you want one people can print. The menu itself goes on the page as text. A PDF cannot be read out loud by a phone or searched by Google, and it makes people pinch and drag on a screen the size of their hand.
Do you build online ordering?
No. We link to whatever ordering system you already use and make that link obvious. If you are still picking one, we will tell you what we have seen. The account and its fees stay yours.
Do I own the website?
You own your domain. The monthly plan does not transfer the website design to you. If you ever leave, tell us where the site is going and we will quote the port and what it includes before you decide.
Who takes the photos?
You, or a photographer you hire. We are not a photo studio. We tell you which shots a restaurant site needs and we size and compress whatever you send. A phone photo taken in daylight near a window does more for you than stock food photography.
How fast can the site be up?
Most restaurants are reading their site on a private link in about five days once we have the menu, the hours, and the photos. That is typical and not a guarantee. The menu is almost always what we are waiting on.
Will this put me on Google Maps?
Your Google Business Profile does that, and it is free to claim. We build the site so it agrees with your profile: same name, same address, same phone, same hours. We do not promise rankings or a number of covers.
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Med spas
A service menu with real prices, and a design that matches what you charge.
Auto repair
What you work on, what a diagnostic costs, and where to leave the keys.
Plumbers
Emergency repairs split from planned work, with the service area readable from a phone.
All industries
See every trade we build for, including the businesses without a guide page yet.
The next table is deciding in the parking lot.
Tell us about your restaurant. We build the site, you read it on a private link, and billing starts only when you say go.