Websites for food and hospitality
Websites for food and hospitality. Open, menu, book.
People check three things before they come: are you open, what's on the menu, and can they book or order. Answer those on the first screen and everything else is a bonus.
Free, no card details, and a reply from a person within one working day.
- You see a real design of your homepage before you pay anything
- Live in 7 days from when your payment or deposit lands
- Your Google Business Profile set up or tidied, free
A concept design for Copper & Crumb, a café we made up to show what a site in this sector could look like. Not a real client. See the live sites and all ten concepts
What your customers are looking for
Are you open right now?
Today's hours belong on the first screen, and they have to be right. Wrong hours on a website send people to a locked door.
The menu has to be words
A photo of a chalkboard or a PDF is hard to read on a phone, and search engines can't read it at all. A written menu with prices works for everyone.
They want to book or order direct
If you take bookings or orders, that button sits in the header of every page. Walk-in only? Then it's 'Get directions'.
What we put on the site
Every site starts from a checklist for food and hospitality, then changes to fit your business. This is the starting list, before we know the details.
- Today's hours on the first screen, with the full week underneath
- Your full menu written out, with prices and allergen information
- One main button that fits how you work: Book a table, Order online, Send an enquiry or Get directions
- Where you are, parking, transport and step-free access
- Your own photos of the food, the room and the people
- Your food hygiene rating, linked to the official site, if you'd like it shown
What every page is for
It depends how you work: booking a table, ordering, sending a catering enquiry or getting directions. We pick one and put it everywhere.
What we won't write on your site
Unless you can back it up, it doesn't go on.
- 'Gluten-free' unless your kitchen really controls for it
- 'Award-winning' without the award, who gave it and the year
- 'Homemade', 'fresh' or 'local' for things that aren't
- 'Healthy', 'superfood' or 'detox' claims
The five pages of a Starter site
This is what a £499 Starter site for food and hospitality is made of. Legal pages like privacy come on top and don't count towards the five.
- 1Home
Today's hours, a few menu highlights and the main button.
- 2Menu
The full menu as text, with prices and allergen signposting.
- 3Book, order or enquire
The page that does the main job.
- 4About
Your story, your people and your suppliers.
- 5Find us
Map, parking, transport, access and full hours.
Which package usually fits
Four fixed prices, paid once. We'll tell you honestly which one suits you, and it's often not the biggest.
One page
Plenty for a small café or takeaway: hours, menu, where you are and one button.
Starter
The menu, booking and find-us details each get a page that can be found and shared.
Complete
Adds drinks, what's on, private hire or catering, a gallery and an allergen page.
Bespoke
Suits bars, restaurants and venues people visit for the experience. A takeaway or café is usually better on Complete.
No VAT to add. Starter is up to five pages and Complete is about ten. Bespoke is priced after a 15-minute call. Every price, in full
Who this covers
The same checklist works for all of these. If your business is close but not listed, it almost certainly fits here too.
- CafésSee the page
- Restaurants
- Takeaways
- Pubs and bars
- Caterers
More concept designs for food and hospitality
Invented businesses, built to show the standard. Tap one to open it full screen.
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Mothlight, cocktail bar. Not a real client.
Your homepage design is free
We design your homepage first and send you a private link. If you like it, we build the rest. If you don't, you pay nothing and that's the end of it.
Once you've approved it, you pay in full or pay a deposit, and the site goes live within 7 days of that landing.
What you get
- Nothing to pay until you've seen your design
- Two rounds of changes to the design
- Hosting free for 12 months, then £15 a month
- A new domain in your name, £13 a year
- Your Google Business Profile set up or tidied, free
We build new websites on a new domain. We don't move existing websites, domains or email.
Questions food and hospitality ask
Can people order through my site?
Yes, if you take direct orders. The Order button goes to the ordering service you already use.
How do allergens work on the site?
Every menu page signposts it: either the allergen information for each dish, or a clear line asking people to talk to you, depending on how your kitchen handles it.
My hours change with the seasons.
Send us the new hours and we'll change them. Keeping them right matters more than almost anything else on a food site.
Where your customers are
We're in Basildon and build for businesses across Essex and east London. These ten towns each have their own page.
Other sectors
Each one has its own checklist and its own concept design.
See a site built for your menu and your room, free
A few quick questions and about two minutes. A real design of your homepage comes back within 48 hours.
Free, and there is no card field anywhere on the form.