Café and restaurant websites built for locals

Hours and menu before anything decorative

A café site fails when the menu is a PDF, the hours are wrong on a public holiday, or the map pin sits on the next street. People decide in the queue or in the car. They want today's hours, whether you do gluten-free, and how to book — not a parallax photo of a flat white.

Starter at $499 covers a logo mark, colours, and one page: hours, a short menu or a link to the current list, a map, and a way to message you. Growth at $1,199 is the usual hospitality fit: up to five pages so the menu, the story of the place, and private dining or functions can each have room. Custom is quoted if you need online ordering built in. We link to the booking tool you already use — ResDiary or similar — rather than selling you a second system. Photography is yours unless we scope it.

Keep the site and Google Business Profile saying the same thing

If the site says you open at 7 and the Google profile says 8, locals trust the profile and then arrive annoyed. Growth includes Google Business Profile setup. Starter includes the map and on-page titles. Either way, you confirm the hours, the address you want public, and the phone you actually answer. We don't publish a street address or phone for our own studio until those details are the ones on the footer — the same rule applies to your café.

Turnaround is 5–7 business days for Starter and 10–14 for Growth after the brief. You own the logo files and the site on handover. Hosting for a static site is cheap; we explain the options instead of adding a platform subscription you can't leave. The package guide lists both tiers line by line.

Menu structure that survives a reprint

Send the menu as a simple list: item, price, and a note if it's vegetarian, gluten-free, or only on weekends. We lay that out as text, so a customer can search the page and you can change a price without exporting a PDF. Daily specials can be a short line you update, or left off the site if they change faster than you want to edit. Allergen detail you aren't sure about stays off the page. Guessing “nut free” is worse than saying ask the counter.

Functions and group bookings need one clear path: a note of the minimum spend or the headcount you can take, and the same form or email you actually read. If you only take bookings through one app, the site should not also invent a second form that nobody checks. Tell us which inbox or tool is real when you get a quote.

Starter or Growth for a café

A coffee cart or a small takeaway with one menu usually fits Starter at $499: a logo mark, one page with hours, the menu as text, a map, and a contact form. A café with a separate brunch and dinner menu, a functions page, or a gallery of the room is Growth at $1,199, because that is several pages plus Google Business Profile setup. If you sell online — gift cards, beans, catering orders with payment — that is a custom quote. The salon page covers booking-led businesses if you run appointments rather than walk-ins.