Website design for restaurants
A restaurant website has one job on a phone: show the menu, the hours and where you are in the first ten seconds. Ours start at R2 950 and are built for the way people actually arrive — hungry, on a phone, deciding between you and two other places.
Part of a fixed-price range — see everything we build.
What a restaurant website actually needs
Most restaurant sites fail at the basics. The menu is a PDF that does not open on a phone. The hours are wrong. The address is only on the contact page. The booking link goes to a dead page. Fix those and the site outperforms anything beautiful.
What gets used, in order:
- The menu, as a real page. Readable text, not a PDF — Google indexes the words, and 'best pizza in Bellville' can only find you if your menu says pizza.
- Hours and location in the header and footer, tappable on a phone.
- A booking route. A Dineplan link, a WhatsApp button, or a simple booking-request form — whichever you actually answer.
- Photographs of your food, compressed properly so the page still loads on data.
Menus change, so we build the menu as its own page and make updates cheap — either a care plan from R350 a month, which includes change time, or a quoted once-off for a bigger rewrite.
The package fit for restaurants
| Business | Package | Once-off | What that gets you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe or takeaway | Starter | R2 950 | Menu, hours, location and a WhatsApp or call button. |
| Full-service restaurant | Business | R4 950 | Menu page, gallery, functions page, booking route. |
| Venue or several branches | Pro | R7 950 | A page per branch or offering, plus a functions and events section. |
Where the bookings actually come from
Walk-ins find you through Google Maps; bookings come through your profile, your Instagram and word of mouth. The website's job is to be the place all of those point to — the one URL where the menu is current, the hours are right and booking takes one tap.
A Facebook page alone cannot show up when someone searches for restaurants in your suburb; the honest comparison is in website versus Facebook page.
What it costs
R2 950, R4 950 or R7 950, fixed, with hosting and your domain covered for the first year. The full inclusion list is on the website design packages page. Guest houses sell rooms the same way — see guest house sites.
Common questions
How much does a restaurant website cost?
R2 950 for a three-page Starter, R4 950 for a seven-page Business site, R7 950 for a twelve-page Pro site. Fixed and quoted up front — see packages and prices.
Can we update the menu ourselves?
Yes. We build the menu as its own page, and you can either send changes to us to quote, or take a care plan from R350 a month that includes change time. Where you want to edit daily yourself, we build on WordPress instead of static pages.
Do you do online ordering?
Linking to Mr D or Uber Eats is included for free — your own ordering system with payment is a custom build and we quote it honestly rather than pretending it is a package. See e-commerce website design for how that works.
Should the menu be a PDF?
No. PDFs are slow on a phone and Google does not read the words, so your dishes cannot match searches. A menu as a real page loads instantly, ranks, and is easier to update anyway.
Tell us what you need
We will come back with a fixed price, usually the same working day.