Restaurant website design

Restaurant website design that fills tables instead of winning awards

Most restaurant sites fail the same way: the menu is an image Google cannot read as text, and booking takes too many taps. We build the site around the three things people come to do: see the menu, book a table and order.

  • Menu in text, not an image
  • Booking in a few taps
  • English and Spanish at no extra cost
  • Websites from $997

The short answer

Restaurant website design has to solve three things on mobile: a menu in text that Google can read, booking in a few taps and ordering without detours. Henoc Marketing builds bilingual restaurant sites, with a menu your team can edit and a connection to your booking system. Websites start from $997 and the first consultation is free.

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The four mistakes that cost a restaurant tables

They show up on a great many restaurant sites, and none of them has to do with how pretty the design is.

The menu is an image or a PDF

Google does not read the dishes inside an image as text, so you do not show up when someone searches "birria near me" or "gluten free brunch". A PDF can be indexed, but as a file separate from your page, and on mobile it forces pinch-zoom.

Booking takes too many taps

A button that opens another page, that opens a widget, that asks you to create an account. Every step loses people, and the decision of where to eat gets made fast, and hungry.

The site does not say the basics

Stale hours, a hard-to-find address and nothing about parking, patio seating, large groups or whether kids are welcome. These are the questions people call to ask, and every call you answer is a table you are not serving.

Third-party apps take the whole order

Delivery platforms charge a commission on every order. If your site does not offer an equally easy way to order direct, you pay that commission even on customers who already knew you and came looking for you.

How we build a restaurant site

Mobile first, always. It is where tonight's dinner gets decided.

Text menu with structured data

Every dish in real text, with price and allergens, plus schema.org menu markup. That way Google can surface your dishes and an AI assistant can answer what you serve when someone asks.

Booking and ordering in plain sight

Buttons that do not vanish on scroll, connected to your booking system and, when it offers an integration, to your POS. No account creation and no detours.

WhatsApp for what a form cannot handle

Large groups, private events, catering and odd questions. An AI agent answers instantly in Spanish or English and hands off to a person when the case calls for it.

What the site includes

All built for mobile and for your team to update without calling us.

A menu your team can edit

You change prices and dishes without depending on anyone. We train you to do it.

Integrated reservations

With the system you already use, or we help you choose one.

Direct ordering

Pickup or delivery, without the platform commission on every ticket.

Optimized photos

Compressed so they load fast on mobile data, not just on office wifi.

Events and catering page

Large orders tend to come through here, and few sites work it.

Complete local data

Hours, parking, patio, accessibility and restaurant schema consistent with your Google profile.

Spanish version

Written by people, with dishes under their real names. Included at no extra cost.

WhatsApp AI agent

Bookings and orders after hours, when nobody is on the phone.

Why us

Three differences you notice in the operation, not in the portfolio.

We already built a real restaurant site

Duo Latin Bistro, in Kissimmee: a site with menus, table booking and delivery links. You can see it live, with their permission, below.

The menu can actually be read

Shipping the menu as an image looks good and is less work. We lay it out in text with structured data, which is the difference between showing up or not when someone searches for a specific dish.

Genuinely bilingual

A machine-translated menu shows in the first line and costs credibility exactly where it matters most. We write both versions, and bilingual is included in the price.

From first call to launch

The standard process takes four weeks: strategy and content in week 1, design and development in weeks 2 and 3, launch and training in week 4. Integrations and content reviews can stretch it, and the delivery date goes in writing in the quote.

  1. Step 1

    Strategy and content

    Menu, hours, booking system and the POS you already use.

    Week 1

  2. Step 2

    Design and development

    Mobile-first visuals, the text menu, booking and ordering integration, and testing on a real phone.

    Weeks 2-3

  3. Step 3

    Launch and training

    Go live, Google Analytics and Search Console, and training so you edit the menu yourself.

    Week 4

What it costs

Our published prices. A menu with reservations fits the smaller sites; online ordering and POS integration push toward the Pro website.

  • Essential website

    From $997

    1-3 pages, bilingual EN/ES

  • Business website

    From $2,497

    Up to 8 pages, bilingual EN/ES

  • Pro website

    From $4,497

    9+ pages or integrations

  • Website redesign

    From $1,997

    With redirects so you keep your Google rankings

  • Care plan (maintenance)

    $147/mo

    Hosting, SSL, backups, security monitoring and 1 hour of changes a month

Care plan (maintenance) is monthly: 6-month minimum, then month-to-month with 30 days' notice. If you cancel within the first 30 days, we refund your first monthly fee (setup, ad spend and usage are non-refundable).

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A real restaurant

A live site shown with the client’s permission. We show what is visible on the live site, with no results figures.

Duo Latin Bistro website

Web design

Duo Latin Bistro

Website for a Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Kissimmee, with menus, table booking and delivery links.

Visit the site

Where we work

We operate out of Orlando, Florida, serving Central Florida on site. Everything else is remote, so we build restaurant sites anywhere in the United States and in the Dominican Republic. Local experience changes the outcome in one concrete way: in Central Florida plenty of people search for where to eat in English and plenty in Spanish. A site that exists in only one language leaves out the other half of the conversation, and that does not show up in analytics tools that only look at English.

  • Orlando
  • Kissimmee
  • Winter Park
  • Lake Nona
  • United States
  • Dominican Republic

Frequently asked questions

How much does a restaurant website cost?

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Our published prices: the Essential website from $997 (1-3 pages, bilingual EN/ES); the Business website from $2,497 (up to 8 pages, bilingual EN/ES); the Pro website from $4,497 (9+ pages or integrations). A menu with reservations usually fits the Essential or Business website; online ordering and POS integration go in the Pro. Bilingual is included. You get the quote in writing after a free 30-minute consultation.

Why is a PDF menu a bad idea?

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Google can index a text PDF, but it treats it as a document separate from your page, so your menu page does not win those specific-dish searches. If the PDF is a scanned image, not even that. On mobile it also forces pinch-zoom. A text menu gets read, gets indexed with your page and updates in a minute.

Can I update the menu myself?

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Yes, and it is a requirement, not an add-on. A restaurant changes prices and dishes often, and depending on the agency for every change means the menu goes stale. We leave the menu, prices and hours editable, and we train you.

Will this help me depend less on delivery apps?

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It helps, but let us be clear: it does not replace them. Platforms bring new customers you cannot reach alone. What a good site does is win back the customer who already knows you and orders through the app out of habit. Every one of those orders that moves to direct is a commission you keep.

Do you do the Spanish version of the menu?

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Yes, written by people and included at no extra cost. Machine-translating a menu produces dish names that do not exist and descriptions that read wrong. We also set up hreflang so Google shows each person the version in their language.

How long does it take?

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The standard process takes four weeks: strategy and content in week 1, design and development in weeks 2 and 3, launch and training in week 4. Integrations and content reviews can stretch it, and the delivery date goes in writing in the quote. What usually delays a restaurant site most is the dish photos and the final menu with prices.

Tell us how your restaurant works

Thirty minutes to look at your menu, your booking system and where orders come in today. You leave with a written quote, or with a fix list if your current site can be saved.