Restaurant website design that gets people through the door.
Nobody visits a restaurant website to read about your passion for food. They want the menu, the hours, the address and a way to order or book, and they want it in ten seconds on a phone. Here is how to give it to them.
What diners look for, in order
- The menu. With prices, as text on the page.
- Are you open right now? Today's hours, including holidays.
- Where are you? Address, a map link and where to park.
- How do I order or book? One clear button.
- What does it look like? Real photos of the food and the room.
A restaurant site that answers these five on the first screen is doing its job. Everything else is secondary.
What a restaurant website needs
A menu people can actually read
A PDF menu is slow to open, hard to read on a phone and invisible to Google. Put the menu on the page as text. It loads instantly, you can update a price in a minute, and someone searching for a dish near them can find you.
Hours that are always right
Wrong hours cost you the customer who drove over and found you closed. Your website, your Google Business Profile and your Yelp listing should all say the same thing, including holiday changes.
One obvious way to order or reserve
If you take online orders or reservations through a service, the button to it should be at the top of every page. If you only take phone orders, make the number dial when tapped.
Your own photos
Food photography sells the meal before anyone reads a word. Photos of your actual dishes and your actual room build the right expectation. Stock photos of someone else's pasta do not.
Speed on a phone
Most visitors are standing on a street deciding where to eat. Large unoptimised photos are the usual reason restaurant sites load slowly, so every image should be sized for the screen.
The details Google wants
Cuisine, price range, address and hours can be marked up in the page so search engines and AI assistants read them correctly. It is invisible to diners and useful to every tool that recommends places to eat.
Reviews decide more than the website does
Diners read reviews before they read your menu. You cannot control what people write, but you can answer it. A calm reply to a bad review tells the next reader more about you than ten good ones. We draft review replies for your approval, so nothing goes out under your name until you say so.
What you get from Bizzefy
Every website we build includes all of this, at every price:
- Custom design, no templates
- Layouts built for mobile, tablet and desktop
- On-page SEO setup
- Analytics and conversion tracking
- Contact and lead forms
- SSL, security and backups
- Training so you can edit it yourself
For restaurants we would normally add:
- Food and interior photography, shot at your restaurant and sized for web and social.
- Google Business Profile and Yelp listings claimed and kept accurate, as part of local SEO.
- Posts and review replies drafted for you and queued for your approval in the client portal.
- A care plan so menu changes and fixes are a request away.
Cost and timing
Websites start at $999, with a free consultation and a same-week quote. Photography starts from $249. Most websites launch in 2–4 weeks, depending on scope and how quickly content and approvals are provided. If you are just opening and need to be findable today, we also build a free one-page website for local businesses.
Before you decide
Common questions.
What should a restaurant website include?
The menu as text with prices, today's hours, the address with a map link, one clear button to order or reserve, real photos of the food and the room, and a phone number that dials when tapped. It should load quickly on a phone.
Should my menu be a PDF?
No. A PDF is slow to open on a phone and search engines cannot read it well. Put the menu on the page as text so it loads instantly, is easy to update and can be found in search.
How much does restaurant website design cost?
At Bizzefy, websites start at $999 with a free consultation and a same-week quote, and food and interior photography starts from $249. We also build a free one-page website for local businesses.
Can you photograph our food?
Yes. We shoot food, interiors and team photos on location, retouched and sized for web and social.
Can you manage our Google and Yelp listings?
Yes. We claim and optimise your Google Business Profile and Yelp listing and monitor both for reviews, with replies drafted for your approval.
Make it easy to choose you.
Tell us about your restaurant. Free consultation, and a quote the same week.