Built around what a hungry person on a phone actually wants: the menu, the hours, how to get there, and a table tonight.
Restaurant website design costs $1,700 to $8,000 for most independent restaurants and takes two to four weeks. The essentials are a menu in real text rather than a PDF, current hours and directions, and either reservations or ordering wired in directly. Around three quarters of restaurant traffic is mobile, so speed on a phone matters more than anything decorative.
A PDF menu is the single most common mistake in restaurant websites. It cannot be read comfortably on a phone, Google cannot index the dishes, and you need a computer to change a price. We build menus as proper pages you edit yourself, which means your dishes show up in search.
A large share of visits are someone standing outside deciding whether you are open. Hours, address, a tap-to-call number and a tap-for-directions link go where they can be seen without scrolling, and the hours are structured so Google can read them too.
Third-party marketplaces take a sizeable cut of every order. Direct ordering through a system like Toast, Square or ChowNow keeps far more of it, and the customer stays yours. We wire your chosen system in and make the direct route the obvious one.
OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms or a simple form, embedded so booking takes one tap rather than bouncing to a page that looks like a different business. Fewer people abandon a booking that never leaves your site.
Food photography is the reason people choose you and the reason restaurant sites are slow. We compress properly, serve modern formats and lazy load below the fold, so the gallery looks good without costing you visitors on a weak connection.
Most people find you through Maps and the local pack, not your homepage. Your site needs to match your profile exactly on name, address, hours and phone. We set up local schema and give you a checklist for the profile itself.
| Project | Range (USD) | Timeline | Included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single location, menu and bookings | $1,700 to $5,000 | 2 to 4 weeks | Menu pages, hours, reservations, gallery, local schema |
| Single location with direct ordering | $4,000 to $8,000 | 3 to 5 weeks | Above plus ordering integration and checkout testing |
| Multi-location group | $9,000 to $25,000 | 5 to 10 weeks | Location pages, per-site menus and hours, group branding |
| Menu and content updates | $150 to $400 per month | Ongoing | Seasonal menu changes, photography swaps, hours |
| Redesign of an existing site | $2,500 to $9,000 | 2 to 5 weeks | Rebuild on your current ordering and booking systems |
Ordering and reservation platforms charge their own fees on top, which go to them rather than to us. We will tell you what each option costs before you commit so the running cost is part of the decision, not a surprise in month two.
| Problem | What happens | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| Menu as a downloadable PDF | Unreadable on mobile, invisible to search | Menu as text pages you can edit |
| Autoplay video or music on load | Visitors leave immediately, especially in public | Silent looping video at most, or a still |
| Hours only in an image | Google cannot read them, so Maps shows nothing | Structured opening hours in schema |
| Ordering that jumps to a marketplace | You lose margin and the customer relationship | Direct ordering made the prominent option |
| Uncompressed photography | Slow load on the mobile connections most diners use | Modern formats, compression, lazy loading |
| Christmas menu still up in March | Visitors assume you have closed | CMS your team updates in minutes |
A single location site with menu and reservations runs $1,700 to $5,000. Adding direct online ordering takes it to $4,000 to $8,000. A multi-location group runs $9,000 to $25,000. Ordering and booking platforms charge their own monthly fees separately.
No. A PDF cannot be read comfortably on a phone, search engines cannot index your dishes, and changing a price means opening a design file. Menus built as text pages get found when someone searches for a dish in your area, and your team can change them in a minute.
Yes. Direct ordering systems such as Toast, Square Online and ChowNow charge a much smaller share than the large delivery marketplaces, and the customer data stays with you. Many restaurants list on marketplaces for discovery while pushing repeat customers to order direct, and the website is where that push happens.
OpenTable brings its own diner traffic but charges per cover. Resy suits higher-end rooms. SevenRooms is stronger on guest data for groups. A simple request form costs nothing and works fine for smaller places. We will recommend based on your covers and margin, then embed whichever you pick.
Claim and complete your Google Business Profile, keep name, address, phone and hours identical to your website, add real photographs, and ask regulars for reviews. The website supports this with matching local schema. We handle the site side and give you a checklist for the profile, which only you can verify.
Yes, that is the point. Prices, dishes, specials and hours are all editable by your team through a CMS, with a recorded walkthrough. Restaurants change too often for updates to depend on an agency's turnaround.
Yes. Each location gets its own page with its own hours, menu, photographs and schema, so each one can rank for its own neighbourhood, under shared group branding. It is the difference between showing up in one area and showing up in all of them.
We build it into the menu structure as a field per dish rather than a separate document, so it stays current when the menu changes. Requirements differ by country and by state, so confirm what applies to you with your local authority and we will build to it.
Send us what you are trying to fix and we will tell you what it takes, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it. If we are not, we will say so.