Restaurant website design that fills tables, not delivery apps.
Guests pick where to eat on their phone, before they ever walk in. Give them a site that shows the menu, books the table, and makes ordering from you the easy choice.
Menu
PDF, pinch to zoom
Online orders
Delivery apps, 15 to 30% fees
Reservations
Call during the rush
Local search
Hard to find
Five ways your restaurant website is costing you covers.
Handing 15 to 30% of every delivery order to the apps
Full-service restaurants kept a median 2.8% of sales as pre-tax profit. DoorDash charges 15% to 30% commission on delivery orders, far more than most restaurants earn on the same order.
A PDF menu nobody can read on a phone
Guests pinch, zoom, and give up. Your best dishes never get seen, and Google cannot read them either.
Invisible on "restaurant near me"
When someone nearby searches for dinner, you're not in the results they actually tap.
No way to book or order from your site
Every guest who has to call during the dinner rush is a guest who picks the next place instead.
Looking dated next to the place down the street
Diners judge the food by the website before they ever see the dining room.
In a 2019 MGH survey of 1,101 U.S. adults, 77% said they visit a restaurant's website before they dine in or order out. Your website is your host stand, your menu, and your first impression, all at once.
See what delivery apps are really costing you.
Move the sliders to match your restaurant. That number comes out of your margin every year you wait to give guests a better way to order.
Illustrative estimate. Assumes a 25% app commission (DoorDash's Plus delivery rate), about 3% card processing on direct orders, and 30% of app orders moving to your own ordering platform. Savings require a direct ordering platform and guests choosing it. Your numbers will vary.
Paid to delivery apps each year
$57,600
Potential savings with direct ordering
$15,206
per year, from shifting just 30% of orders to your own ordering platform.
This is what a full dining room looks like online.
Looking for restaurant website examples? Here's one built to answer every question a hungry guest has in the first five seconds, then give them a button to book or order before they close the tab.
Why restaurants choose us.
Order Online is the easiest button on every page
We connect your site to the ordering platform you already use, or help you pick one, so regulars order direct instead of through an app that charges you on every meal.
Mobile-first, because diners are
Most guests find you on their phone, standing on a sidewalk, deciding in seconds. Your site loads fast and works with one thumb.
A menu that sells the food
A real text menu that reads cleanly on any screen, shows your best dishes, and gets indexed so it can rank for what you serve.
Built to be found locally
An SEO-ready foundation with your hours, address, and menu as real text, ready to work alongside your Google Business Profile.
What should a restaurant website include?
A restaurant website needs a mobile-friendly text menu, hours and location, online reservations, direct ordering, appetizing photos, and visible reviews. As a restaurant web design company, we deliver all of it as custom website design for restaurants, built from scratch, whether it's a brand-new site or a redesign of one that isn't pulling its weight.
Direct Ordering Setup
Get your regulars ordering from you, not an app.
Most restaurants can already take direct orders. They just aren't set up well or promoting it. We handle the setup and the promotion so more orders skip the app fee.
- Choose the right ordering platform for your menu, volume, and POS
- Configure your menu, pickup times, and payments
- Connect it to your site with Order Online buttons on every page
- Promote it to regulars with email, table QR codes, and your Google Business Profile
Add it to a website project or book it on its own. Platform subscription and processing fees are billed by the platform directly.
Why a custom restaurant website beats a template.
Restaurant website builders get you online fast. So does every other restaurant using the same template. The best restaurant website design starts with your food, your room, and your guests, so your site should not look like everyone else's.
Template builders
- The same layout as thousands of other restaurant sites
- Menus stuck in PDFs or buried behind an app
- Slower load times that cost you mobile orders
Custom-coded with us
- A site built around your brand, your menu, and your room
- Your ordering and reservation tools connected cleanly, so guests stay on your site
- Built for speed on the phone, where guests decide
Clear process. No surprises.
Discover
We learn your restaurant, your menu, and where your current site is losing tables and orders.
Design & Build
A custom-coded site with your menu built in and your ordering and reservation tools connected, designed around how guests actually decide where to eat.
Launch
We handle the technical rollout, domain, and hosting so nothing breaks right before your busiest weekend.
Support
30 days of post-launch support, plus ongoing care if you want us keeping it running year-round.
Get your free site review.
We'll show you exactly where your site is losing tables and orders. Free, 20 minutes, no obligation.
Get your free site review
Tell us about your restaurant, then pick a time that works.
Common questions.
At minimum: a mobile-friendly text menu, hours and location, online reservations, an Order Online button, photos of your food, and your Google reviews. Everything a hungry guest needs should be one tap away on a phone.
Projects typically start around $399, with a custom quote after a free discovery call. Final pricing depends on the number of pages and whether you want help setting up an online ordering platform or reservation tool.
Yes, when your site is paired with a direct ordering platform. DoorDash, for example, charges restaurants 15% to 30% commission on delivery orders, while direct ordering platforms typically charge a flat fee or card processing instead. We connect your site to the platform and make Order Online the easiest button on every page, so regulars order from you.
We connect your site to the ordering and reservation tools you already use, or help you choose and set up new ones. We do not build custom ordering software, so payments and kitchen tickets stay on proven platforms while your guests get a smooth way to book or order.
Yes. Our direct ordering setup helps you choose an ordering platform, configure your menu and pickup settings, connect it to your site, and promote it to regulars with email and table QR codes, so more orders skip the app fee.
Local visibility comes from three things working together: a complete Google Business Profile, a fast mobile site with your menu, hours, and address as real text, and a steady stream of reviews. Every site we build includes an SEO-ready foundation, and we offer ongoing local SEO.
PDF menus are hard to read on a phone, harder for search engines to understand, and easy to leave out of date when prices change. Good website menu design means a text-based menu on your own site that loads faster, reads cleanly on any screen, and can rank for the dishes you serve.
Template builders get you online fast, but you end up looking like every other restaurant using the same layout. A custom-coded site is built around your brand, your menu, and how your guests actually book and order, and it loads faster on mobile.
Yes. If your current site looks dated, loads slowly, or hides your menu in a PDF, we redesign it the same way we handle new builds: custom-coded, mobile-first, and backed by an SEO-ready foundation. Your current site stays live until the new one is ready.
Most restaurant projects go from kickoff call to live site in 2 to 4 weeks, with a custom quote after a free discovery call.
Yes. We are based in Minneapolis and design websites for restaurants in Saint Paul, across Minnesota, and nationwide. Everything runs over video calls, so location is never a barrier.
Sources: MGH diner survey (2019) · DoorDash merchant pricing · National Restaurant Association (2025)
Your next full Friday night starts on a phone screen.
Every night your site makes guests work to find the menu, the table, or the order button, they choose the restaurant that doesn't. Start with a free site review, no obligation.
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