Websites for cafés, pubs and food businesses.
// cafés · pubs · restaurants · farm shops · bakers · producers
// free first draft · sites from £600 · hosting £25/mo
The person deciding where to eat is standing on a pavement in Dartmouth with a phone, or planning a Saturday in August from a car on the A38. They want three things in the next ten seconds: are you open, what do you do, and where are you. A PDF menu that takes twenty seconds to load on holiday-season 4G has already lost them to the place next door.
A food site is mostly about getting those three things right and making the food look like the food. Your menu as a real page, not a scan. Opening hours that are correct. A map. Photos of what comes out of your kitchen. And nothing heavy in the way of it loading. From £600, with most café and pub sites coming in around £800.
What a food site has to do
A menu that reads on a phone
Typed, not a photograph of the printed one. Sections, prices, the allergen note, and quick to change when a dish comes off. Send me the new menu and it's live the same day.
Hours and directions that are right
Seasonal hours, the Monday you close, the bank holiday you don't. Wrong hours online cost more goodwill than no website at all. The site and your Google listing say the same thing.
Photos of the actual food
Your plates, your room, your view if you have one. Nothing from a stock library. Phone photos in daylight are usually enough, and I'll sort and crop them.
Rank for the search that matters
"Dog friendly café Totnes", "Sunday roast Ivybridge", "farm shop near Ashburton". A page for each thing you want to be found for, written properly rather than stuffed with keywords.
Stay out of the way of the food
No online-ordering upsell, no app, no popups. If you take table bookings through a system already, the site links to it. If you don't, the phone number is right there.
// what one looks like
Built for businesses like yours.
Sites built for cafés, pubs and food around here. Yours would start the same way: a chat, whatever you've already got, and a working draft within days.
// questions
The questions cafés, pubs and food ask first.
- Our menu changes every week. Is a static site the wrong choice?
- Not for a weekly change. Email me the new menu on Monday and it's live within the hour, and a menu update is about half an hour of my time. If your menu changes daily and you want to type it in yourself, WordPress is the better fit and I'll say so on the first call.
- Can people book a table through the site?
- Yes, through whatever you already use (ResDiary, OpenTable, a Google booking link, or simply your phone number). The site sends people to your diary rather than trying to be one.
- Do I still need a website if I have Google and Facebook?
- Your Google Business Profile does the map and the hours, and it's the first thing to get right. The website is where the menu, the photos and the story live, and it's what Google links to when someone wants more than the listing. They work together; the free first draft shows you what yours would look like before you decide.
Wherever you are: the towns I work in, and everywhere in between.