For restaurants & bars

Restaurant websites with a menu Google can read

We build restaurant and bar websites around the menu and the photography, with one-tap booking and card details taken for big tables, so a table for eight can't vanish without a word.

Big tables · card details on booking
the real issue

How people choose a restaurant

People often choose where to eat from their phone, before they ring or book. Here are three places a restaurant website loses the table.

Choosing on a phone
People pick tonight's table from photos on a phone, often from the sofa. If your food isn't there looking like itself, they pick somewhere else.
The no-show
A table for six books, then quietly doesn't come. Without a deposit or card details, there's no way to fill it by eight, and the kitchen prepped for them anyway.
The PDF menu
A PDF that opens sideways, pinched and squinted at. Few people read it to the end, and Google can't show it as a menu.

Each of the three can be fixed with the website or a small build.

the site

What a restaurant website needs

This is Ember & Oak, a restaurant concept we built to show the standard. Hover over it and it scrolls through itself.

  • The menu as a real page

    Easy to browse on a phone and readable by Google, dish by dish.

  • Booking that protects big tables

    Card capture on the sixes and eights, so a no-show costs them something instead of only you.

  • Hours, parking and the basics

    Hours, address, parking, dogs or not. The everyday questions, answered before anyone has to ring mid-service.

  • Proper food photography

    One evening with a decent photographer does more than a page of adjectives.

Ember & Oak is a concept, not a real restaurant. Yours would use your own menu, room and prices.

CONCEPT · RESTAURANTEmber & Oakhover to view it live →
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example plan

An example automation plan for restaurants

Three jobs a review usually finds for a business like yours, in the order we'd do them. Each is a small build. Yours will differ, which is what the review is for.

One menu, keyed five times

Job 1 · today

The menu changes, so someone retypes it: print, the website, the PDF, Google, the specials board. Miss one and a diner orders something you stopped serving in March.

What we'd build

One menu source that pushes everywhere at once: the site, a print stylesheet for the table copy, and Google. Change the fish, everything changes with it.

Ask about the single menu source

The allergen matrix

Job 2 · today

It lives in a folder by the pass, always one edit behind whatever the kitchen changed on Tuesday. Everyone trusts it slightly less than they should have to.

What we'd build

An allergen list linked to the same menu source, so it updates once, with the dish. The folder becomes a printout of something that's actually current.

Ask about the allergen list

Gift vouchers in a drawer

Job 3 · today

Sold on paper, logged in a notebook, redeemed on trust. Nobody knows how many are out there, and December's voucher admin lands in the middle of December.

What we'd build

Vouchers sold on your own site that track themselves: numbered, dated, redeemed with a tap at the till. The money comes in upfront and the drawer can go.

Ask about gift vouchers

not sure where to start

If none of these is obviously first, the automation review is £395: 90 minutes with Chris and a written plan of the jobs worth automating, in order. Go ahead with a build within 60 days and the £395 comes off it.

Read about the automation review
working together

How it works

Four steps, from the first call to looking after the site.

A quick call

Thirty minutes, between services. Chris looks at your current site and how bookings and the menu run, then tells you where the quick win is and where there isn't one.

We build a demo

You see a real, clickable version of the site with your name, your menu and your room on it.

We connect it to your systems

It connects to the booking system and the till you already use. Nothing that works gets rebuilt.

Looked after every month

Menus change weekly, so the site keeps up with them. Changes are part of the monthly price.

what it costs

Prices for restaurants

Nothing upfront, and one monthly price covers everything your site needs: hosting, security, backups and small changes. Pick the closest starting point and we'll give you a written price after a quick call.

Starter
from £79/mo
Nothing upfront · priced to your build

A single-page website. Enough to look established, be easy to contact and come up when someone searches your name. Hosting, changes and care are included, as on every plan.

Get a Starter website price
Standard
from £149/mo
Nothing upfront · priced to your build

The full restaurant website. Menu as a real page, booking, hours, directions, hosting, changes and care, all included.

Get a Standard website price
Rather pay once? Builds start at £595. All the options are on the pricing page, and we'll tell you if a smaller one fits.

Get in touch

On a thirty-minute call, Chris will tell you what we'd build, what it would cost and whether it's worth doing at all. If your current site only needs its menu unsticking, he'll say so.

Where we work

We build for restaurants and bars across the UK. Our base is in Quorn, and these nearby towns have their own page, with distances from our door.

Loughborough 3 miles Leicester 10 miles Nottingham 18 miles