Websites for restaurants
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What they need →Websites for takeaways
Websites for takeaways that win the work.
Websites for takeaways with one clear commercial purpose: taking orders directly instead of paying thirty per cent to an aggregator. From £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Your customers
How people actually choose a takeaway.
Takeaway customers are transactional and fast. They know roughly what they want, they want to see the menu with prices, and they want to order in under two minutes. Most arrive through an aggregator app out of habit rather than preference - and a meaningful share will order direct if the direct route is genuinely easier and slightly cheaper. Repeat ordering is very high in this trade, so converting a customer away from an aggregator once is worth a great deal over a year.
When demand peaks. Weekend evenings dominate. Major sporting events and poor weather produce sharp spikes.
The problem
What most takeaways websites get wrong.
Most takeaways have effectively outsourced their online presence to an aggregator and hand over a large percentage of every order for the privilege. A direct ordering site that is even slightly clunkier will not win, so the bar is high: the direct route has to be genuinely fast and give the customer a visible reason to use it. The other failure is a menu image scanned from a paper leaflet, which cannot be searched, read on a phone, or priced correctly.
What it has to do
The jobs a takeaway website is built for.
Direct online order
Every direct order saves the aggregator commission, which is most of the margin.
Repeat direct ordering
The lifetime value of moving one regular off an aggregator is substantial.
Phone orders
Still a large share of the market and must stay one tap away.
The pages we build for you
- Home
- Order now, delivery area, opening hours.
- Menu
- Full menu in text with current prices.
- Order online
- The direct ordering route.
- Delivery area
- Postcodes covered and minimum spend.
What moves the needle
- Direct online ordering with card payment
- The entire commercial case for the website.
- A visible reason to order direct rather than through an app
- Without an incentive, habit wins and the site earns nothing.
- Menu as text with current prices, never a scanned leaflet
- A scanned image cannot be read on a phone or found in search.
- Delivery postcodes and minimum order stated clearly
- Prevents the failed orders that lose customers permanently.
- Prominent tap-to-call
- Phone ordering remains a large share of takeaway trade.
Trust signals we put on every page: Current menu and prices · Food hygiene rating · Delivery area · Opening hours
Concept build
What a takeaway website could look like.
A neighbourhood small-plates restaurant should feel generous and loud before anyone reads a word, so the first screen is one dish taking itself apart. This week's plate - buffalo mozzarella, heritage tomatoes and torn basil - sits photographed from above in a rounded mustard window, with SALTBOX set huge in bottle green on either side of it. The tomatoes, garlic, lemon, chilli and basil are cut-out photographs tucked around the rim.
The market, in real numbers
46,440
takeaways and mobile food businesses registered across 378 UK local authorities.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 56103, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Birmingham | 885 |
| Manchester | 695 |
| Glasgow City | 650 |
| Leeds | 645 |
| Bradford | 475 |
| Liverpool | 450 |
| Sheffield | 425 |
| County Durham | 410 |
| North Yorkshire | 385 |
| City of Edinburgh | 385 |
£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
Takeaways: what people ask us
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.
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.
Is it worth taking orders through my own site?
Financially, yes - aggregator apps typically take a large percentage of every order, and that is most of the margin on a takeaway. The catch is that the direct route has to be genuinely as easy as the app and give the customer a visible reason to use it, or habit wins.
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