Industries · Restaurants

Restaurant sites that fill seats.

Most restaurant websites are slow, unreadable on mobile, and hide the menu behind a Flash-era PDF. We build the other thing — fast, photography-led sites with menus you can read on a phone in five seconds, reservation integration that actually works, and Google Business Profile setup that wins the lunch-rush search.

(01) — Why restaurants

Restaurant web design has one job above everything else: make it stupidly easy for a hungry person on a phone to decide to come in. Everything else is secondary. The sites that lose make the menu hard to find, the reservation flow clunky, and the load time slow enough that the customer just opens Google Maps and picks the next result.

What wins is mobile-first design tuned for the moment-of-decision search pattern (lunch, dinner, weekend brunch), real photography of real food (no stock plates), reservation integration with OpenTable, Resy, Tock or your existing system, and aggressive Google Business Profile maintenance — photos, posts, menu uploads, review responses, hour updates around holidays.

We've worked with restaurants from indie bistros to small group operators across BC. The patterns are consistent across price points. Higher-end restaurants need more typographic restraint and editorial-quality photography; casual operators need clearer pricing and faster booking flows. Both need to load fast.

(02) — What we ship

The work that actually
moves bookings.

Menu as a first-class citizen

Real HTML menus that load instantly and read well on mobile — not PDFs, not embedded Squarespace blocks. Updated by your team in 30 seconds when a special changes.

Reservation integration

OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms, or your existing booking tool — embedded so guests reserve without leaving the site.

Real food photography

We don't ship stock-photo restaurant sites. We help you set up a sustainable photo pipeline — phone-camera friendly, branded crops, monthly cadence.

Google Business Profile for restaurants

Menu uploads, photo cadence, post schedule, review-response system, holiday hours, attributes (outdoor seating, takeout, delivery, dietary options) — all dialed in.

Catering and private events

Sub-pages and inquiry flows for catering, private events and group reservations — usually the highest-margin revenue line and the most underserved on existing restaurant sites.

Local SEO + Restaurant schema

Restaurant schema (menu items, price range, cuisine, dietary tags), neighbourhood signals, citation hygiene across food directories.

(03) — Outcomes

What you'll get.

  1. 01
    A menu that loads in under a second on mobile
  2. 02
    Reservation integration that actually works on launch day
  3. 03
    Google Business Profile rankings for cuisine + neighbourhood combinations
  4. 04
    A photo pipeline you can maintain without an outside shoot
  5. 05
    Catering/private-events inquiry flow if you want one
(06) — Common questions

What restaurants
actually ask.

Why not just use Squarespace or a restaurant template kit?+
You can — and for a single-location indie restaurant with a tiny menu, that's often the right call. Where we add value is for restaurants competing in a saturated market, multi-location groups, or operators who want a site that genuinely outperforms Google Maps as a conversion surface. Below CA$8k budget, the templates are usually fine.
Can you integrate with OpenTable or Resy?+
Yes — OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms and a few others. Most integrations are an embedded reservation widget; some teams prefer a redirect to a dedicated booking flow. Both work cleanly.
Should our menu be a PDF or HTML?+
HTML, always. PDFs are unreadable on phones, don't update easily, and don't get indexed by search engines. Even the most rotating-menu high-end restaurants we've worked with use HTML menus updated daily by their team.
What does restaurant web design cost?+
Single-location indie restaurants typically spend CA$6,000–CA$18,000 on a real bespoke site. Multi-location groups and higher-end concepts land CA$20,000–CA$60,000. Above that, you're paying for editorial photography, video, and content programs that compound over years.
Do you handle Google Business Profile?+
Yes. GBP is the single highest-leverage local channel for restaurants — most operators are running it at maybe 40% of its potential. Photo cadence, post schedule, review responses, menu uploads, holiday-hour updates — we run all of it as part of monthly local SEO programs.
How long does a restaurant web design project take?+
Six to ten weeks for most single-location builds. Multi-location group sites with location-specific menus, photography and GBP setup run ten to sixteen weeks. The bottleneck is usually photography — operators who underestimate that timeline tend to slip.

Building for
restaurants?

Thirty-minute call, no slide deck, no salespeople. Tell us what you're working on and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.