Vertical · Restaurants & Food Service

Restaurant websites that work as hard as you do

A menu that's easy to find and read. Hours and location that show up in Google. An ordering flow that doesn't lose customers to a broken third-party widget. Fast-loading, mobile-first, and built without a page builder that'll need $200/month in plugins to stay functional.

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What a restaurant site actually needs to do

Menu — readable on a phone

Full menu with sections, descriptions, and pricing. Not a PDF scan. Not a third-party menu embed with its own load time and styling. Clean, crawlable HTML your customers can actually read on a 5-inch screen.

Location, hours, and contact

Every restaurant loses bookings to a site that shows wrong hours or buries the address. Structured LocalBusiness schema makes sure Google shows your current hours in search results, not stale cache.

Reservations & ordering

OpenTable, Resy, Toast, Square, Yelp — whatever you're already using. Embedded booking widgets or clean links that don't feel like an off-ramp. If you want a fully owned ordering app, that's a separate project through Studios.

Fast load, mobile-first

Food photos are heavy. We optimize them without killing quality — WebP, lazy load, responsive srcset. Google's Core Web Vitals in the green zone on mobile, which matters for local search ranking.

Local SEO built in

LocalBusiness schema, Google Business Profile sync review, sitemap submitted to Search Console. Your NAP (name, address, phone) consistent across the site and major directories. Technical SEO included with every multi-page build.

Events & specials

Happy hour pages, weekly specials, private dining, catering inquiry forms. Content that gives search engines something to index and customers a reason to come back to the site.

What you don't need

You don't need a $300/month website subscription with a drag-and-drop builder and 15 plugins, half of which slow down the site and the other half of which expire their trial after 30 days. You don't need a "restaurant website template" that looks identical to every other restaurant in a 10-mile radius.

You need a fast, clean, custom site that your customers can navigate on their phone at 7pm when they're deciding where to eat. One-time build cost, optional low-cost hosting, no monthly platform fee eating into margins.

Pricing

Single-page restaurant sites (menu, location, hours, contact) start at $1,000. Multi-page sites with separate menu pages, gallery, events, catering, and reservation integration typically run $1,800–$3,500. Technical SEO setup included with all multi-page builds.

Optional managed hosting from $30/month — includes nightly backups, SSL, uptime monitoring, and one hour of content edits per month on the Care plan. Menu updates, hours changes, and event additions handled for you.

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Common questions

Single-page sites with menu, location, hours, and contact start at $1,000. Multi-page sites with separate menu pages, gallery, events, catering inquiry, and reservation integration typically run $1,800–$3,500 depending on page count and functionality. Technical SEO setup is included with all multi-page builds at no extra charge. See the full pricing breakdown →
The website can link to and embed your existing ordering platform (Toast, Square Online, DoorDash Storefront, etc.) without extra cost. Building a fully custom native ordering app — one that owns the customer relationship and bypasses commission fees — is a separate project handled through ArdinGate Studios. A website with embedded third-party ordering is the faster, cheaper path; a custom app is the better long-term path for repeat-order businesses. Both can be built together as a bundle.
Two options: on a hosting plan, menu edits are included in your monthly content edit hours — just email the changes and they're live within 24 hours. Alternatively, the menu can be built against a lightweight data file you can edit yourself without touching HTML. We'll match the update workflow to how you actually operate — not force you into a CMS you'll hate.
Technical SEO setup is included with every multi-page build: LocalBusiness schema with address and geo coordinates, Google Business Profile sync review, NAP consistency check, and sitemap submission to Search Console. Restaurants are a strong local SEO vertical — the Google Business Profile listing does most of the heavy lifting for local pack results, and the site's structured data reinforces it. Ranking for competitive keywords beyond your immediate area depends on content and reviews, but the technical foundation is solid from day one. More on what's included in SEO setup →
Single-page sites typically deliver in 1–2 weeks. Multi-page sites with gallery, events, and reservation integration take 2–4 weeks. Turnaround depends almost entirely on how quickly content (menu copy, photos, hours) comes in — the build itself is fast. Every project starts with a free scope call before any timeline is committed.

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Let's build your restaurant a site worth sending people to.

Tell me what you're working with — existing site, current platform, what's broken — and I'll send back a scope and quote.

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