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Websites and apps for restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Restaurant website design built around your food and how people order it. Your whole menu, your branches and ordering in one place, as good on a phone as it is on a laptop.

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What a food business needs from its website

  • A menu people can read on a phone

    Many customers look at the menu on their phone before they decide, so it has to be quick, clear and set out by category, never a photo of a printed menu.

  • Allergen information that is easy to find

    Customers with allergies need to check before they order, so allergens deserve their own clear page.

  • The right branch, found quickly

    If you have more than one site, people need to find the nearest one, with directions and opening details close at hand.

  • Ordering that works every time

    A broken ordering link costs you the order and the customer’s trust. Every button has to lead somewhere.

  • A look that matches the food

    A tired website makes good food look ordinary. Your site is often the first taste of your brand.

  • Room to grow

    Franchise enquiries, feedback, an app, a second branch: the site should take them on without starting again.

What we build for restaurants, takeaways and cafés

Dairy King had no app, no click and collect and no system for staff to manage orders, and its old website showed the menu as a single picture. We designed and built a new website, a new app and the systems behind them, every page and screen from a blank page. The whole menu and both branches now sit on one website, and ordering is built into the app.

Read how we built Dairy King’s website and app

  • The whole menu, set out properly

    Every category on its own, with a page for each item. For Dairy King we built exactly this, in place of a menu shown as a single picture.

  • A branch finder

    Customers search by postcode and get directions. Dairy King’s covers both of its branches.

  • Online ordering and click and collect

    Built into your own website or app. Dairy King wanted ordering in its app only, so its click and collect is built into the app.

  • A separate allergens page

    As on the Dairy King website.

  • A mobile app

    Designed for the phone first, for iPhone and Android. Dairy King’s app is coming to the App Store and Google Play.

  • A dashboard for your staff

    So the team manages orders from one screen. Dairy King’s runs in a web browser and will receive orders from the app once it is live.

  • Franchise enquiries and customer feedback

    Taken through forms on the site.

  • Legal and accessibility pages

    Drafted by us and ready for your solicitor to approve.

Questions owners ask

Can customers order directly from my own website?

Yes. We build online ordering into your own website or app, so customers order from you rather than through someone else’s site. Dairy King wanted ordering in its app only, so click and collect is built into the app, and app orders will reach a staff dashboard that runs in a web browser. If you already use an ordering platform you are happy with, we can connect it to the new site instead.

Do I need an app, or is a website enough?

For many food businesses a fast website with online ordering is the right place to start. An app makes sense when customers order from you often and you want them one tap away. If you would like our recommendation, we give it before anything is decided, and our guide on choosing between a website and an app sets out the questions to ask.

Can I change the menu myself?

Menus change, and the site should keep up. We make menu changes for you. The Standard and Priority care plans include a monthly allowance for content changes, with one place to send every request.

Will the site work with more than one branch?

Yes. Each branch can have its own details, and a branch finder lets customers search by postcode, as on the Dairy King website. If you open another branch later, adding it to the same site can be done under a Standard or Priority care plan. Bigger changes are extra work, agreed in writing first.

What does it cost?

Every food business needs something different, so we quote after a conversation about yours. You then get a written scope covering what will be built, the cost, how it is paid and the timeline, before any work starts.

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