Restaurant websites that take orders and bookings, without the commission cut.
Custom-built for your menu and brand, with ordering and reservations wired into your own domain. From a developer who studied hospitality management before writing code.
A restaurant doesn't have to choose between a template builder and losing a slice of every order to a marketplace app. A custom site can embed Square ordering, connect Reserve with Google through a supported partner, or run WooCommerce ordering outright, so orders and bookings land on a domain you own.
Where do your orders actually live?
For a lot of restaurants, the honest answer is: on someone else's platform. The delivery apps take their cut of every order. The ordering page lives on a subdomain you don't control. The website is a template that fights the brand, with a menu PDF nobody updates.
Meanwhile your Google profile, your busiest salesperson, points guests to whichever third party got there first.
It's fixable, and it doesn't require dropping the platforms that work for you. It requires your own site doing its job.
The integrations, by name
Not "we do integrations." These, specifically:
Square
Square Online ordering embedded in your site, synced with your Square POS, so orders land in the same till and dockets your team already uses.
Reserve with Google
The Reserve button on your Google Business Profile only works through a supported booking partner. I wire your reservations through one, so guests book from Search and Maps without ever leaving Google.
WooCommerce ordering
When you want ordering fully on your own terms: menus as products, pickup windows, deposits for events and catering, and every fee visible to you.
Your current ordering app
Already on an ordering platform that converts well? It stays. I integrate what works and replace only what doesn't; no forced migrations.
One developer for the whole stack
The website is usually where it starts, rarely where it ends. Everything below comes from the same person, so nothing gets lost between vendors:
The website
WordPress when a CMS your team can edit is the right call, Next.js when performance and custom product features matter. Both are daily drivers here; the audit decides, not a default.
Ordering & booking
Square Online embedded, WooCommerce ordering, reservations with Reserve with Google through a supported partner, or your existing platform kept and integrated.
Mobile apps
Ordering, loyalty, or booking apps for iOS and Android from one codebase (React Native or Flutter), for when the website alone stops being enough.
Management systems
Reservation dashboards, staff tooling, CRM and booking backends. I've built appointment systems processing real payments end to end.
Builder or custom? The honest comparison
Wix, Square Online, and UpMenu are real options, and for some spots the right ones. Here's the trade, plainly:
| What you're comparing | Website builder (Wix, Square Online, UpMenu) | Custom-built site |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the site | The platform; leave and you rebuild from zero | You; hosting, domain, and code in your accounts |
| Design ceiling | Template plus tweaks; the brand adapts to the theme | Built around your menu, photos, and identity |
| Ordering | The platform's own system, on its terms and fees | Square, WooCommerce, or your existing app, your pick |
| SEO ceiling | Fine for the basics, hard caps above that | Structured data, speed, and content fully in your control |
| Upfront cost | Low; the trade-off is monthly fees and ceilings | Higher; quoted fixed-price after a short audit |
| Right for | Brand-new spots validating the business | Established places where brand, margin, and search matter |
I speak covers and table turns, not just code
I studied hospitality management before becoming a developer, and worked on marketing for Accor, Sofitel, and Hyatt Regency properties. That matters in practice: a developer who understands service flow builds the menu page for the Friday rush, not for a design award.
The technical proof is verifiable: a booking and payment system processing real appointments with Stripe, PayPal, and local gateways (Fennec360), and WooCommerce stores running live checkouts, including one taken over mid-build and launched at 98/100 Lighthouse.
How it works
Menu, brand, and how you actually operate
Before any design: how orders flow, when you're slammed, what the POS is, who updates the menu. A restaurant website that ignores service reality becomes shelfware.
Design and build around the menu
Mobile-first, because guests find you on their phones. The menu is the homepage's real job: fast, legible, current, and pointed at ordering or booking.
Wire in ordering and reservations
Square, WooCommerce, or your existing platform for orders; your reservation system connected, including Reserve with Google where supported. Tested end to end with real orders before launch.
Launch, local SEO, and upkeep
Structured data for menus, hours, and location, Search Console wired, and a monthly care plan if you want menu updates and seasonal changes handled for you.
Running a restaurant, cafe, bar, or hotel?
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