Website design and development for restaurants and local food businesses
A site that gets the menu and the hours onto a phone in one second. Built in days from $300/mo, then tuned every month from what your real visitors do.
The moment a restaurant loses the enquiry.
Someone standing outside at 8:40pm wants to know if you are still open. Your hours are inside a PDF menu that will not open on their phone, so they walk to the next place.
That is a design and development problem, and it is invisible from the inside. It only shows up in what your visitors actually did, which is what askotter watches after the site is live.
Built around how people choose a restaurant
→ Menu as real text, never a PDF
A PDF menu is unreadable on a phone, invisible to Google, and invisible to the AI answers people now ask for dinner ideas. The menu is a page, with prices, and it is the most visited page you have.
→ Hours that are correct everywhere at once
Hours on the site, in structured data, and in your Google Business Profile, kept in agreement. Holiday hours that are right on the door and wrong on Google cost you a full evening.
→ One decision per screen
Book a table, order pickup, get directions. Restaurant traffic is deciding right now, and three competing buttons is slower than one obvious one on each screen.
→ Photos of the actual food
Compressed, fast, and yours. Stock photography of a burger reads as a chain, and the visitor is choosing between you and somewhere they can already picture.
The pages we start a restaurant with
A starting structure, not a fixed template. You add, cut and rename anything by describing it, and the site adds pages later when the traffic shows people are searching for something you do not have a page for.
Design, build, hosting and the year after, from $300/mo
The build, your own domain, hosting and SSL, unlimited edits described in plain English, and one free refresh a year. Then every month it reads your traffic and proposes the next change, measured against calls and quote requests rather than pageviews. A person signs off before anything ships.
Every page you have, watched.
This is the part a web design project does not come with. Every page on a restaurant site is checked daily, and when something changes, the change itself is recorded. A plugin update that quietly breaks your enquiry form on a phone shows up as a row with the diff attached, not as a quiet month.
Change Intelligence in the askotter portal, on an example restaurant site. Invented data.
Estimate the hours your budget is actually buying.
Pick what your site runs on and set what you spend on it each month. The figure is the hours that spend buys at a blended rate, which is the number worth having in front of you before you renew anything.
An estimate, worked out from what you entered at a $150/hr blended rate. Connect the accounts and it stops being an estimate: askotter counts the changes that actually shipped, and who shipped them.
Questions from restaurants and local food businesses
Why does the PDF menu matter so much?
Google cannot read it, AI assistants recommending dinner cannot read it, and on a phone it opens as a blurry image the visitor has to pinch. It is the most common and most expensive mistake on restaurant sites.
Can it handle reservations and online ordering?
The site links to whichever platform you already use and tracks the handoff, so you can see how many visitors reach the booking step and how many complete it.
Do I need to update it every time the menu changes?
You describe the change in plain English and it updates, including the structured data Google reads. Seasonal menu changes take minutes, not a support ticket.
Website design for other home & local services
Ready to rebuild your restaurant site?
Give us the URL of the site you have now. That is the whole brief. 14 days free, no card.