Web design for cafés and restaurants
Most people decide where to eat on a phone, and they want three things fast: the menu, the hours and a way to book. A café or restaurant website earns its keep by answering all three before the person gives up and opens a delivery app.
Standard 1.2.3 allergens
Allergens in unpackaged food are declared using the required names, so menu items carry an allergen field and a route to ask before ordering.
ABAC Responsible Alcohol Marketing Code
A licensed venue's drinks pages sit under state liquor advertising rules and the voluntary ABAC code, so age controls are settled up front.
Kilojoule menu labelling
State schemes make large chains show kilojoules and the 8700 kJ statement on online menus, so the menu template holds a kJ field.
What cafés and restaurants need from a website
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The menu is the whole website
The menu is what most people open the site to find, and it changes with the season, the produce and the price of everything on it. A PDF or a photo of a printed menu is slow to open on a phone, harder for search engines to read than a web page, and unreadable to a screen reader when it is a scan or a design export.
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Hours and surcharges have to match
Trading hours live on your website, your Google Business Profile, your booking system and the front door, and every public holiday changes all four at once. Menu surcharges carry their own rule as well: the notice saying a surcharge applies on certain days has to be displayed at least as prominently as the most prominent price on the menu.
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Bookings and orders leak to platforms
Reservation widgets and delivery marketplaces run the transaction, take a commission and keep the customer's details. Your own site is the one place a table booking, a pickup order or a function enquiry can arrive without a commission attached to it.
What we build for cafés and restaurants
Menu pages, not menu PDFs
Your menu is built as real web pages in WordPress, with sections, dietary and allergen notes and prices a manager can change before service, so it loads instantly on a phone and can be read by search engines and screen readers.
Your booking system, built in
We integrate the reservation platform your floor staff already use, so the booking button works cleanly on mobile without a third-party embed slowing the page or breaking the design.
Online ordering and gift cards
Secure payments on your own site for pickup orders, catering and gift vouchers, set up to respect the three-year minimum expiry that applies to gift cards under Australian Consumer Law.
Trading hours and Google markup
Hours, kitchen times and public holiday exceptions are set in one place and published as structured data, so Google, Maps and AI assistants read the same thing a customer sees on the site.
Function and catering enquiry pages
Pages for group bookings, venue hire and catering, with an enquiry form that captures date, headcount and dietary requirements and lands in the inbox that handles them.
Menu changes and maintenance
Australian hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and security patching, plus the small jobs that come with a venue: a new seasonal menu, changed holiday hours, a price adjustment.
Common questions
Can we update the menu ourselves, or does it have to come back to you?
Either way works. The menu is built as editable content in WordPress, so a manager can change a dish, a price or a dietary note without touching code or the design. If you would rather not deal with it, menu updates are one of the things a care plan covers.
We already use a booking platform. Do we have to change it?
No. We build around the reservation system your staff already know, whether it connects as a widget, a link or an API. If it is holding the site back, such as a slow embed or a booking flow that fails on a phone, we will show you what we are seeing and what the options are, but the choice stays with you.
Will a new website get us higher in Google Maps?
We cannot promise a position, and nobody honestly can. Maps results lean heavily on how close the searcher is to you, your Google Business Profile and your reviews, none of which a web designer controls. What the website does is make sure the information Google pulls is correct and complete, including hours, address, menu and structured data, on a page that loads fast on a phone.