Websites for restaurants
Restaurant website design.
People decide on a restaurant from a phone: what’s on the menu, whether you’re open, and how to book. The site’s job is to answer those three without a fuss.
This is a page for restaurant owners who want a website. It is not a directory of places to eat, and it won’t pretend to be your restaurant.
A café that closes in the afternoon is a different brief — there’s a separate page for café website design. A restaurant site is built around sittings, a menu that changes, and bookings or walk-ins.
I’ll set the menu as real text, with prices, so it can be read on a phone and updated when a dish changes. A photo of a printed menu is hard to read and goes stale the week you photograph it.
Built for this work
What a website for restaurants needs.
Menu as text
Starters, mains, desserts and drinks, with prices. Dietary notes sit next to the dish, not in a footnote nobody opens.
Hours that are easy to correct
Service times, kitchen close, and days you’re shut. When Christmas hours change, it’s a small edit rather than a new design.
Bookings
A link to the booking system you already use, or a simple request form for tables and private dining if you don’t have one.
Find the door
Address, map, parking and step-free access. The questions people ask before they leave the house.
Allergens
A clear note on how a customer asks about allergens, and labels where you already know a dish is vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free.
Searches your customers type
What people type when they need a restaurant.
This page is for restaurants who want a website. The search it answers is “restaurant website design”. It is not a listing, and it does not pretend to be a restaurant.
Your own customers search for something else:
- “restaurant near me”
- “sunday lunch near me”
- “restaurant with a private room”
People want the menu, whether you are open tonight, and how to book. This page is about building that site. It is not a restaurant listing.
A useful site names your services and the places you cover, in real text, with a proper title on each page and a phone number that works on a mobile. Your free Google Business Profile (opens in a new tab) is the other half: the listing that can show your hours, phone number and area on Google and Maps. Use the same name, address and phone number as the website. I don’t write reviews, and none of this is a promise of a position in the results.
Suggested pages
A sensible starting layout.
- Home
- Menu
- Private dining or groups
- About
- Book or contact
Tips
Getting the most from it.
- Keep the hours on the site identical to your Google Business Profile.
- Use photographs of your own room and plates. Stock food photos are obvious.
- If you only take walk-ins, say so. A booking button that goes nowhere wastes the enquiry.
Payment plans
Rather spread the cost?
A full website is £500. If you’d rather not pay it all at once, pick one of these plans. Every plan adds up to exactly £500, with nothing extra on top.
Plan 1
£150 up front
then £50 a month for 7 months
Total: £500
Plan 2
£100 up front
then £100 a month for 4 months
Total: £500
Plan 3
3 payments
of £166.67, £166.67 and £166.66
Total: £500
- Monthly payments are taken automatically by card, through Stripe — nothing to remember.
- Once it’s paid off, you choose: a £10-a-month hosting and care plan, or a full handover of your site.
- Your own domain is extra, at around £5–£10 a year.
Note: you buy your own domain (around £5–£10 a year) — it’s yours to keep. Want to take payments? You set up your own Stripe account and I’ll connect it. The longer notes are a cheap website for a small business and a pay monthly website.
See the full pricing page for what’s included.
FAQ
Common questions.
Can you put the menu on the site as text?
Yes. That’s the useful way to do it. You can send changes and I’ll update them on the £10-a-month care plan, or I can set it up so a simple edit is possible.
We already use a booking app. Can the site use it?
Yes. I’ll link or embed the system you already pay for. I don’t sell a separate booking product.
Is a restaurant site the same £500?
Yes, for a small-business site: menu, hours, about and a way to book or enquire. A large multi-location brand, or online ordering with a big back office, is quoted separately, from around £1,200.
Will this rank for “restaurant near me”, “sunday lunch near me”, “restaurant with a private room”?
No. Those are searches your customers type when they want a restaurant, and I can’t promise a position on Google. This page is for restaurant website design. On your site I will write your services and the places you cover in plain text, set a proper title on each page, and make it work on a phone. You should also set up your free Google Business Profile with the same name, address and phone number. That gives Google accurate information about the business. It is not a guarantee.
How much does it cost, and can I pay monthly?
A full website is £500, or you can spread the cost: £150 up front then £50 a month for 7 months, £100 up front then £100 a month for 4 months, or three payments of £166.67, £166.67 and £166.66. Every plan totals exactly £500, and monthly payments are taken automatically by card through Stripe. You buy your own domain separately, at around £5–£10 a year.
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