Running a restaurant or a takeaway, your website is quietly doing two of the most important jobs in the business: getting a hungry stranger to choose you tonight, and, if you get it right, letting them order or book directly, so you keep the money the delivery apps would otherwise skim off the top. Most places nail neither. Let’s fix both.
Make them hungry in seconds
People don’t choose where to eat off a menu spec, they choose off how it makes them feel before they’ve even arrived. So your site has to sell the experience fast:
- Proper photos of the food, the room and the atmosphere, never stock imagery
- The menu, easy to read on a phone, with the star dishes and prices up front
- Opening hours that are actually right, including the awkward ones like bank holidays
- Where you are, with a map and one-tap directions
- A flavour of you, the story, the chef, the specials, whatever makes your place your place
Get that right and the “shall we go there?” decision tips your way, table after table.
The bit that actually saves you money
Here’s what the delivery apps don’t want you thinking about: every order that comes through them, they take a serious cut, often 20–35%. On a busy week that’s a frightening amount of margin walking out the door. And the customer is theirs, not yours; you never even get their details.
Your own website flips that. I can set you up to take bookings and orders directly, reservations straight to your diary, orders straight to your kitchen, so the regulars who’d happily order direct actually can, and you keep the margin instead of losing it in commission. You don’t have to ditch the apps; they’re great for reach. You just stop handing them every single order when a chunk of them would come to you direct if you made it easy.
Keep the menu fresh without the faff
Menus change, specials, seasons, a supplier who let you down, the dish that sold out by seven. So I build yours so updating it is genuinely quick, no coding required. And if you’d honestly rather never touch it mid-service, that’s fine: menu tweaks are just part of looking after your site, so you message me and it’s done. No restaurateur should be fighting a website at 11pm to change the price of a starter.
Reviews and reservations, working for you
People check reviews before they book a table, so I make sure your best word-of-mouth is where diners will actually see it, and that booking is effortless, a clear, obvious way to reserve, on the device they’re already holding. The easier you make it to say yes, the more full tables you get.
Who this is for
Independent restaurants, bistros, takeaways, cafés-that-do-evenings, and small food businesses across Liverpool, Merseyside and beyond. Whether you live off bookings, off delivery, or a bit of both, the goal’s the same: look irresistible, get chosen, and keep more of what you earn.
Straightforward pricing
Restaurant websites start at £249, agreed as a fixed price before any work begins, so there’s never a nasty surprise. It’s honest money for a proper site, nowhere near agency prices, and you own the site and domain for good. Booking and ordering platforms have their own fees and that’s entirely your call, I simply connect whichever one you choose.
For more on the specifics, see how I approach web design for restaurants and how I get a restaurant found on Google, or, if you’re more of a daytime spot, cafés and bars and pubs have their own rundowns too.
If you run a restaurant or takeaway and you want a site that fills tables and quietly protects your margin, let’s have a chat.