Websites for restaurants, cafés and bars
Restaurant websites get used in a very particular way. Someone is standing on a street or sitting in a car with a decision to make in the next two minutes. They want the menu, the opening hours, the location and a way to book. Everything else on the site is decoration, and if the essentials are slow or hidden, they will simply pick somewhere else.
Menus as text, never as a PDF
A PDF menu is the most common mistake in the trade. It downloads slowly, pinches and zooms badly on a phone, and search engines cannot read a word of it. We build menus as proper web pages that reflow on any screen, which also means dish names and dietary information become searchable. You get a simple editor so a changed special takes a minute rather than a call to your designer.
Bookings that go straight through
Whatever you already use, OpenTable, ResDiary, Eveve, SevenRooms or a phone number and a book, the site should hand people to it in one tap. We integrate the booking widget so it opens without a jarring change of look, keep a tappable phone number on every page for anyone who prefers to ring, and make walk in and group enquiries separate so large bookings do not get lost in the general inbox.
Hours and location that are always right
Wrong opening hours cost more covers than a dated design ever will. We keep hours in one place on the site, mirror them to your Google Business Profile, and make holiday hours easy to set in advance. Location gets a map, parking notes and the nearest landmarks, because visitors to Cork are usually navigating on foot with one bar of signal.
Photography that reflects the room
Good food photography earns bookings, and bad photography loses them. We plan a shoot around your actual dishes and your actual room, at the light level people will experience, then compress the images so the site still loads in a second or two. Stock photos of a generic steak do more harm than no photos at all.
The seasons that matter
Christmas menus, set lunch, early bird, private dining and events are where a lot of the margin sits. We build these as pages you can publish and retire yourself, so the Christmas menu goes up in September when people start searching rather than in December when the tables are already gone.
Getting found
Restaurant discovery runs through the map results and a handful of phrases like brunch in Cork or restaurants near me. We set up structured data for menus, hours and reviews, keep your profile current, and make sure your name, address and phone number match across every listing. Those details decide whether you appear in the three results people actually look at.
Vouchers, takeaway and other revenue
Gift vouchers sell steadily online with almost no overhead, and they spike at Christmas and around birthdays. If you do takeaway or collection, a clear page and a working ordering link keeps that trade off third party apps that take a cut of every order. We build whichever of these fits your operation and keep them simple enough that service staff are not troubleshooting a website mid shift.
Get in touch
Call 086 812 7999 and we will look at your current site, tell you what is costing you bookings, and quote a fixed price to put it right.