Your Menu PDF is Costing You Reservations Every Single Night

If you're a restaurant owner watching OpenTable fees climb while your site loads like molasses, you've hit the tipping point.

## Restaurant websites that work as hard as your kitchen Most restaurant websites are built on bloated WordPress themes or overpriced website builders with per-transaction fees. They are slow, generic, and designed to capture upfront payments -- not to grow your revenue. We build custom restaurant websites on Next.js and Supabase. The result: Lighthouse 95+ scores, menus you can update yourself in seconds, and online ordering that keeps the full revenue instead of surrendering 15-30% to delivery platforms. ## Menu management without a developer The menu is the most-updated part of any restaurant website and usually the most painful to manage. We build admin dashboards with inline menu editing. Add dishes, change prices, toggle seasonal items, manage dietary filters (vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, halal) -- all from a browser, without touching code. Changes go live immediately. The menu is also structured for Google rich results. Dish names, descriptions, prices, and dietary information are marked up with Schema.org so your menu items surface directly in search results and AI-powered restaurant recommendations. ## Online ordering without the platform tax Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Deliveroo take 15-30% of every order. We build direct-to-customer ordering with Stripe checkout. Payment goes directly to your bank account (minus Stripe standard processing), and you control the experience end to end. For restaurants with POS system requirements, we integrate with Square, Toast, and other major systems so online orders flow directly into your existing kitchen workflow. ## Reservation system with no per-cover fees OpenTable and Resy charge per cover. We build custom booking engines that charge nothing per reservation -- just the one-time build cost. Features include: real-time availability, party size limits, seating zone management, deposit collection, automated confirmation and reminder emails, SMS notifications, and waitlist management. ## Local SEO for restaurants When someone searches for a restaurant on Google, they see a map pack first. Getting into that map pack requires consistent local signals: Google Business Profile optimisation, structured data, location-specific landing pages, and consistent NAP (name, address, phone) across directories. For multi-location restaurants, we build programmatic location pages -- each one unique, each targeting the neighbourhood and nearby search terms. A restaurant group with 8 London locations should rank for 8 separate sets of hyper-local searches. ## AI search and structured data When someone asks an AI assistant for restaurant recommendations, it surfaces places with complete, accurate, machine-readable information. We implement full Restaurant Schema.org markup: cuisine type, price range, opening hours, accepted payments, dietary options, menu link, and review aggregation. The restaurant with complete structured data gets recommended. The one on a Squarespace template does not. ## Performance that keeps customers on the page Every second of load time costs you orders. Every restaurant site we deliver hits: - Lighthouse Performance: 95+ on mobile - LCP: under 1.2 seconds - Zero cumulative layout shift - Sub-300ms TTFB via Vercel global CDN ## Multi-location support Restaurant groups get central dashboards to manage menus, promotions, and opening hours across all locations -- with location-specific overrides where menus differ. One codebase, one CMS, separate pages that rank independently for each neighbourhood. ## Why not WordPress or website builders Website builders are cheap to start and expensive over time. You do not own the code, you pay monthly, and the moment you need something custom you hit a wall. WordPress restaurant themes are generic, slow, and require plugin subscriptions for booking and ordering that are not designed to work together. We build custom, on modern infrastructure. You own the code. You own the data. No per-reservation fees, no per-cover charges, no platform tax on orders.