Restaurant websites you buy once, not rent
We build custom websites for restaurants and cafes where the menu is structured data rather than a photograph, and bookings run through your own payment account instead of a marketplace taking a cut per cover. You pay once for the build. No monthly platform fee, no commission on orders, and no plan to keep renewing.
- Your menu as machine-readable data, item by item, with prices
- Reservations and ordering on your own payment account - no per-cover fee
- Restaurant and Menu schema that search engines and AI assistants can quote
- Paid once. No monthly platform fee and nothing to switch off
94% of restaurant sites get this wrong
We audited 190 US restaurant websites and 94% publish no menu a machine can read. 91% never even declare that they are a restaurant rather than a generic business. The bar in this sector is extremely low, which is the opportunity.
The menu is the most valuable thing on the site
It is also the thing most often thrown away. A menu published as a photograph or a PDF is opaque: no search engine can read a dish, a price or a dietary note, and no assistant can recommend you to somebody asking what to eat nearby.
We build menus as structured data. Each dish is a MenuItem inside a MenuSection with its own
Offer and price, which is why Villas Cafe can be read item by item by
anything that comes looking.
Bookings and orders that do not pay a toll
A reservation taken through a marketplace costs you per cover and hands the diner relationship to somebody else. An order taken through a platform costs you a percentage forever.
Both can run on your own site and your own payment account instead. Enos
Restaurant takes bookings through a reservation API on its own
infrastructure, marked up as a ReserveAction so search engines understand the page offers
something you can act on.
Restaurants are the hardest market, and we will say so
The search results for restaurant websites are owned by funded software companies with marketing budgets we do not have. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What we offer is narrower and clearer: a faster site, a menu that is readable, ordering that takes no cut, and no monthly bill for any of it.
Work in this sector
Restaurant
Enos Restaurant
Restaurant bookings usually arrive through a marketplace that charges per cover and owns the diner relationship. The restaurant…
Read the case study
Cafe
Villas Cafe
Most cafe sites publish the menu as a picture or a PDF, which means no search engine can read a single dish or a single price…
Read the case studyQuestions we get asked
How is this different from BentoBox or Popmenu?
Those are subscriptions, typically $179 to $499 a month, and the site lives on their platform. This is a one-time build that costs nothing per month to run afterwards. We have written a page on each of them, including the cases where buying theirs is the better decision - they are at /compare/.
Can my menu appear in Google search results?
It can if the menu is marked up as data rather than published as a picture or a PDF. We put every dish in as a MenuItem inside a MenuSection, each with its own Offer and price. That is what makes a menu readable by a search engine, and increasingly by an assistant somebody is asking where to eat.
Do I have to leave my delivery apps?
No, and most restaurants should not. The apps bring customers who were never going to find you otherwise. The argument is about your direct orders, where paying a commission to a platform for a customer who already knows your name is money given away for nothing.
Tell us what you need built.
A short call, a straight answer on scope and cost, and a fixed quote. No retainer, no monthly fee, no commission on your orders.