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What hungry people search
Restaurant searches are almost all local and immediate, and many are made by name to check hours or the menu before going.
- Discovery: "tacos near me", "best brunch [neighborhood]", "restaurants open now", "vegan restaurant [city]".
- By name: "[restaurant] menu", "[restaurant] hours", "[restaurant] reservations".
- Occasions: "private dining room [city]", "catering for 50 people", "kid friendly restaurant near me".
The pages a restaurant needs
The menu page is the most visited page on almost every restaurant site, so it deserves the most care.
- Home: hours today, address with a map link, phone, and buttons to reserve and order.
- Menu as HTML text with prices, dietary labels and a "last updated" date. A PDF can be offered as an extra, not instead.
- Reservations and ordering: links to the services you already use; we don't replace them.
- Private events and catering, with capacity, minimums and a request form.
- About: the chef or family behind the place, in their own words.
- Visit: parking, accessibility, transit, patio, dog policy.
A restaurant site structure
Six pages cover a single-location restaurant; groups add a page per location.
- / (today's hours, reserve, order)
- /menu/ (text menu, dietary labels)
- /private-events/
- /catering/
- /about/
- /visit/ (parking, accessibility, hours)
Our bakery and café sample (a fictional business) shows a text menu, ordering and a bilingual layout on the Business package.
Which package fits a restaurant
A menu, an events page and a visit page usually push a restaurant past one page, to the $599 Business Site.
- Food truck or counter-service spot: $249 Starter Site with menu, location and hours on one page.
- Sit-down restaurant: $599 Business Site, with the menu in two languages if you like.
- Restaurant group with several locations: $1,500 Growth Site.
Every package is listed on our pricing page.
Restaurant details that save phone calls
Every question the website answers is a call your staff doesn't have to take during service.
- Allergens and dietary labels: mark what you can stand behind and say how to ask about anything else.
- Holiday hours, posted early and copied to your Google Business Profile.
- Reservation policy: party size limits, deposits, cancellation.
- Accessibility: step-free entrance, restrooms, seating.
- Real photos of your food and room, taken in your own light.
Questions people ask
Short answers to the questions that come up most when owners in this trade talk to us about a website.
Why not just upload my menu as a PDF?
PDFs are slow and hard to read on phones, and they're harder for search engines and AI assistants to read than text. A text menu fixes all three; keep the PDF as a printable extra if you want.
Can you connect my ordering or reservation service?
Yes. We link the buttons to the services you already use, so nothing changes for your kitchen.
How do I keep the menu up to date?
Send changes during your change rounds, or choose our hosting and care plan (hosting opens soon) so updates are handled for you.
Will the site show my Google reviews?
It can link to your real Google reviews. We never copy reviews into the site as if they were ours to publish, and never invent any.
Keep reading
Related pages for the same kind of business, plus the guides and free tools that go with this one.