Websites for restaurants
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What they need →Websites for cafés & coffee shops
Websites for cafés & coffee shops that win the work.
Websites for cafés, where the entire job is being findable, being open when you say you are, and looking like somewhere worth walking to. From £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Your customers
How people actually choose a café.
Café discovery is almost entirely local and immediate - someone is nearby, wants coffee, and is choosing between three options within walking distance. They check the hours, look at whether it seems pleasant, and check whether there is space to work or room for a pushchair. A second, slower group is looking for somewhere specific: dog-friendly, gluten-free, good for a laptop, quiet enough to meet someone. Those specific needs are what people actually search for and are rarely answered anywhere on a café website.
When demand peaks. Weekday footfall follows office patterns; weekends are driven by families and walkers. Summer terraces change everything.
The problem
What most cafés & coffee shops websites get wrong.
Many cafés reasonably conclude a website is not worth it and rely on a social profile. The problem is that a social profile cannot answer "is it open now", cannot be found by someone searching for a dog-friendly café nearby, and cannot show a current menu. The other common failure is a site built once and never updated, so the hours are wrong and the menu is two years old - which is worse than having nothing.
What it has to do
The jobs a café website is built for.
A visit
There is no online transaction; footfall is the entire objective.
Answer specific suitability questions
Dog-friendly, laptop-friendly and dietary needs are what people actually search for.
Event and private hire bookings
The one genuinely high-value enquiry a café receives.
The pages we build for you
- Home
- Hours, location, and what the place feels like.
- Menu
- Current, in text, with dietary markers.
- Find us
- Map, parking, accessibility, opening hours.
- Private hire
- The high-value enquiry.
What moves the needle
- Opening hours that are genuinely maintained
- A café site with wrong hours actively costs you customers.
- Explicit answers to suitability questions
- Dog-friendly, step-free, wifi and dietary options are the actual search terms.
- A current menu in text with dietary markers
- Allergen information is a legal and practical necessity.
- Photographs of the room, not just the coffee
- People are deciding whether they want to sit there for an hour.
Trust signals we put on every page: Accurate opening hours · Food hygiene rating · Photographs of the space · Dietary options
Concept build
What a café website could look like.
The drinks are the brand, so the page treats them like product launches. The hero is a pinned scroll scene: one tall iced drink in a rounded window, with real ingredient photos in white tiles floating round it. As you scroll, the drink swaps from matcha to strawberry, mango and iced mocha.
Also relevant: Saltbox Kitchen
The market, in real numbers
28,920
cafés and unlicensed restaurants registered across 378 UK local authorities.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 56102, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Birmingham | 540 |
| Westminster | 385 |
| Glasgow City | 380 |
| City of Edinburgh | 355 |
| North Yorkshire | 345 |
| Tower Hamlets | 335 |
| Camden | 325 |
| Leeds | 320 |
| Cornwall | 310 |
| Manchester | 290 |
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
Questions
Cafés & Coffee Shops: what people ask us
How do I keep my opening hours up to date?
Send us the change and we make it - that is what the monthly change is for, and bank holidays are the most common one. Wrong opening hours are worse than no website at all, because they send a customer on a wasted journey and they rarely come back.
I already have a busy social page. Do I need a website?
A social profile cannot be found by someone searching for a barber near them, cannot show a current price list clearly, cannot take a booking without a conversation, and belongs to the platform rather than to you. It works well alongside a website and badly instead of one.
Can we just upload our menu as a PDF?
We would strongly advise against it. A PDF menu cannot be read on a phone without pinching and zooming, cannot be found by search engines, and is almost always out of date. Setting the menu as real text on the page is usually the single biggest improvement a restaurant website can make.
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