Web Design for Restaurants, Cafes and Takeaways

What diners look for in the first ten seconds

Restaurant sites are mostly visited on phones, often from Google Maps, by people deciding where to eat tonight. They want the menu, the prices, the opening hours, where you are and how to book. Everything else is secondary. So the home page leads with those, and the menu is never more than one tap away.

We build menus as HTML pages, not PDFs. Text menus load quickly, zoom properly, work with screen readers and can be read by search engines, which helps you show up for searches like 'vegan brunch Nottingham' or 'Sunday roast near me'. You edit dishes and prices in the editor, and seasonal menus can be scheduled to appear and disappear.

Allergen information done properly

UK law requires food businesses to provide information on 14 allergens: celery, cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites above ten parts per million, and tree nuts. How you do that online depends on how you sell.

• Ordering online or by phone: the Food Standards Agency's guidance on food sold online says allergen information must be available at two stages, before the order is completed and again at delivery. The information must be free to the customer.
• A statement on your website: GOV.UK guidance on food delivery recommends a statement telling customers where they can get allergen information before ordering.
• Prepacked for direct sale food: since 1 October 2021, Natasha's Law requires a full ingredients list with allergens emphasised on the label of food packed on the premises before it is ordered, such as grab-and-go sandwiches.

On the site we mark each dish with the allergens it contains, add a clear statement about cross-contamination risk in your kitchen, and give a phone number for questions. Your team must keep the information accurate. A website that says a dish is nut-free when the recipe changed last week is worse than no information.

Showing your food hygiene rating

A good rating is a selling point. Display at the premises is mandatory in Wales and Northern Ireland, while in England it remains voluntary, and the FSA says a mandatory scheme for England would need new primary legislation. Online display is still rare: the FSA's 2025 audit found only 10% of businesses in England that use online platforms showed their rating there. The FSA's Food and You 2 survey found over nine in ten people agreed ratings should be clearly displayed on the websites of businesses such as takeaways and restaurants.

The FSA provides free online display images and guidance. We place the badge in the footer and on the contact page, linked to your listing on the FSA ratings site so it stays accurate. If your rating changes, the badge should be updated straight away.

Bookings and orders without the middleman

If you already use a table booking system, we embed it so the widget loads fast and matches your branding, and link Reserve with Google where your provider supports it. If you do not, a simple booking request form is a good start. For takeaways, direct online ordering can reduce reliance on delivery apps. That is an ecommerce build from £750 + VAT, with click-and-collect and local delivery rules, payments and order notifications. See booking website design and ecommerce website design.

If you are a large business with 250 or more employees in England, the Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021 also require calorie information, including the statement that adults need around 2,000 kcal a day, on online menus as well as printed ones. We build space for that into the menu template.

Packages for food businesses

A cafe or independent restaurant usually suits the Starter package from £250 + VAT: up to five pages including home, menu, about, bookings and contact, with click-to-call and your Google Business Profile set up. The Business package from £500 + VAT adds more pages (events, private dining, separate lunch and dinner menus), copywriting, full schema and conversion tracking. Ordering sites start from £750 + VAT. Changes after launch are £45 an hour + VAT. See prices.

What you get

• HTML menu pages you can edit, with dietary and allergen markers
• Allergen statement and process that matches FSA guidance
• Food hygiene rating badge linked to your FSA listing
• Booking integration with your existing system, or a simple request form
• Menu, Restaurant and OpeningHoursSpecification schema
• Google Business Profile set up with menu link, photos and hours

Prices and how it works

Websites from £250 + VAT, business websites from £500 + VAT and ecommerce from £750 + VAT. Small changes are £45 an hour + VAT. You get a fixed quote before we start.

1. Free chat

   Tell us about your business, who your customers are and what the website needs to do. No charge, no obligation.

2. Fixed quote

   You get a fixed price and a clear list of what is included, in writing, before anything starts.

3. Design

   We plan the pages and design the site around your customers, then share it for your comments.

4. Build and test

   We build it mobile-first, write or polish the copy, set up SEO foundations and test it on real phones.

5. Launch and hand over

   We launch, connect analytics and Search Console, and show you how to update it. You own it all.

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