Your restaurant website should be filling tables, not just showing your menu.
We build websites for restaurants, bars, and food and beverage groups — online reservation flows, event booking, menus that are actually easy to update, and the local SEO that brings new guests through the door. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You're paying OpenTable 25% per cover for reservations that should be coming through your own site. Your menu is a PDF your manager uploaded in 2023. Guests are calling to ask about parking and hours because Google Business is out of date.
A restaurant's website has one job above everything else: convince someone who is hungry and undecided to choose you. That window is about 45 seconds. In that time your website needs to show them the food, show them the vibe, tell them the price point, let them book a table, and load fast enough that they don't give up and open Yelp.
Most restaurant websites fail this on multiple counts. The hero image is a stock photo of a meal that doesn't look like yours. The menu is a PDF that requires a download and renders illegibly on mobile. The "reserve a table" button goes to OpenTable, which charges you a per-cover fee for the privilege of taking a booking on your own domain. The hours are wrong. The events page hasn't been updated since last summer.
And then there's the Google side. When someone searches "Italian restaurant [neighbourhood]" — one of the highest commercial-intent searches that exists — you're competing against every other restaurant in your zip code. That ranking is earned through proper local schema, consistent NAP data, an optimised Google Business profile, and a website that Google's crawlers can actually read. A poorly structured restaurant website leaves money on the table in a very literal sense.
OpenTable and Resy aren't free channels. They're expensive ones you're defaulting to because your site can't close the booking.
A restaurant website that books tables, ranks locally, and gives guests everything they need to decide to come in — without paying commission on every cover.
Direct reservation integration
OpenTable, Resy, or Tock API wired into your own booking flow — so the reservation stays on your domain, your brand, and ideally your lower-cost or direct system.
Menus that are actually updateable
Sanity CMS-powered menus your front-of-house manager updates in three clicks — seasonal changes, 86'd items, prix fixe specials — without touching code or re-uploading a PDF.
Event and private dining booking
Buyout inquiries, corporate dining requests, and ticketed event registration with deposits and guest count handling.
Food photography-first design
Pages built around your actual food photography with proper image optimisation so it loads fast and looks good on every screen.
Local SEO built into the structure
Restaurant schema, cuisine type, price range, hours, and review schema. Google Business sync. Location pages for multi-venue groups. Built on Next.js, Sanity for content, and integrated with your reservation and POS system (Toast, Square, or similar) where relevant.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A restaurant website that books tables, ranks locally, and gives guests everything they need to decide to come in — without paying commission on every cover.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Restaurants operate on thin margins and tight cash flow. A six-month open-ended agency engagement is not a risk you can absorb during service. We scope the reservation integration, the menu system, the event pages, and the SEO setup together, commit to a number, and ship in 6 to 10 weeks. Done, on budget, before your next seasonal push.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
In some cases yes, with Tock or a direct booking layer — but OpenTable's discovery platform still drives significant traffic, so most restaurants keep it for discovery and shift the overflow to direct. We can build a hybrid: OpenTable for discoverability, a direct booking path on the website that costs you nothing per cover.
Through Sanity, a simple no-code CMS. Your manager logs in, edits the menu item, saves, and it's live in under a minute. No developer involved. You can update descriptions, prices, 86 items, and switch between seasonal menus on a schedule.
We can recommend photographers in your area who specialise in food and hospitality. The build doesn't depend on new photography — we can work with what you have — but a shoot before launch always improves the result.
A full restaurant website with reservation integration, CMS-managed menus, event booking, and local SEO typically runs $10k–$20k. Multi-venue groups scope higher. Every engagement is fixed-price.
Most restaurant websites ship in 6 to 10 weeks. If you have a rebrand, opening, or seasonal launch driving the deadline, we plan to that date from the first call.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.