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.
5.0 across 29 client reviews
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 works with whatever already runs your orders, Square, Bopple, me&u, OpenTable, WooCommerce, and puts orders and bookings 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, and the website is a template fighting 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.
Whatever runs your orders, it connects
Not one vendor's ecosystem. The site is built around the platforms that already work for you, by name:
POS-connected ordering
Ordering that lands in the till you already run: synced with the POS, printing to the same dockets your kitchen reads now.
Ordering & delivery apps
Already converting on one of these? It stays. The site gets built around it, and your brand stops living on their subdomain.
Reservations
Bookings from your site and straight from Search and Maps, wired through a supported partner so the Book button actually appears.
Fully yours
Menus as products, pickup windows, deposits for events and catering, every fee visible to you. Ordering entirely on your own terms.
Whichever platform you run, orders end in the same till and print to the same dockets your kitchen already reads.
Three ways ordering can live on your site
Most agencies won't spell this out. It decides how your ordering feels, so here it is, plainly:
The iframe
Not offered hereYour ordering page dropped into a frame on the site. It looks bolted on, behaves badly on mobile, and checkout cookies can break inside frames. Plenty of agencies ship this. I don't.
Your domain, their page
Live from day oneOrdering lives on order.yourdomain.com, styled to your brand as far as the platform allows. Guests click Order and land somewhere that still feels like your restaurant. No custom development needed.
Truly native ordering
Where it should end upA custom ordering flow on your own pages, talking to your platform through its APIs. The only way ordering genuinely feels like part of your website, with a flow you control end to end. Real development, phased in when the numbers justify it.
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 your team needs to edit everything themselves, Next.js when performance and custom features matter. The audit decides, not a default.
Ordering & booking
Embedded ordering and reservations, wired to whichever platform already works for you, plus Reserve with Google through a supported partner.
Mobile apps
Ordering, loyalty, or booking apps for iOS and Android from one codebase, 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 | Whatever converts best for you, kept and integrated |
| 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 |
On the fence between the two? Send me your menu and current setup, and I'll tell you honestly which side you're on.
Get a straight answerI 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.
Inherited a hacked, stalled, or half-finished site? Recovering those is its own service here: website rescue.
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
Your ordering platform connected at the right level, your reservation system wired in, 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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