Hospitality and food
Websites that make people want to come in
Hospitality is decided quickly and almost always on a phone. Someone wants to know if you are open, what the food looks like, whether they can get a table and where to park. A beautiful site that hides those answers loses the booking to the venue next door.
Professional websites from $500 AUD, with design, content and SEO included.
What usually holds these businesses back
The problems we see most often
These are the patterns that quietly cost enquiries. Every one of them is a design and structure decision, not a budget problem.
The menu is a PDF
PDF menus are slow, awkward on phones and invisible to search engines. A proper menu page fixes all three.
Opening hours are unclear
Hours, kitchen times and public holiday changes are the most looked for detail on any hospitality site.
Function enquiries get lost
Group and event bookings are high value and deserve their own page and enquiry form, not a line in the footer.
Photography is doing nothing
Good imagery presented poorly still fails. Composition and pacing are what make a venue feel worth visiting.
What we recommend
What a hospitality and food website needs
Included where it suits your business. We confirm the right mix during your guided brief rather than selling you features you will never use.
Menus you can update yourself
Structured, searchable menu pages with dietary markers, managed from your website admin when the kitchen changes something.
Bookings and waitlists
Connection to your existing reservation platform, or a clean booking request flow if you take them directly.
A functions and events page
Capacity, packages, sample menus and a dedicated enquiry form so group business is easy to say yes to.
Gallery and atmosphere
Photography presented with proper pacing and cropping, optimised so it loads fast on mobile data.
Practical visit details
Hours, location, parking, accessibility and contact details where people look for them first.
Local discovery foundations
Structured data for menus, hours and location, aligned with your Google Business Profile and map presence.
A coastal table, a slower kind of evening.
Reserve a sittingTonight
Two seats, 7.30pm
Hold tableImage led and atmospheric
A design direction that suits the work
Venues usually suit a visually led direction where photography leads and type sits over it. Your build is shaped around your own food, room and personality, so it will not look like another venue's site.
Fictional demonstration concept, not client work.
See all design directionsGetting found
Search structure built for this industry
We build the foundations properly and follow current best practice. Nobody can credibly guarantee rankings, and we will never pretend otherwise.
- Cuisine plus suburb searches
- Near me and open now intent
- Function and event enquiries
- Menu and dietary searches
More detail on how we approach search is on the SEO and growth page.
Where to start
Most hospitality and food businesses start on Growth
Grow suits most venues because menus, functions and local search all benefit from the extra depth. Launch works well for a single small venue.
Growth
$1,000
AUD, one-off build
For businesses that want to be found and to turn more visitors into enquiries.
Not sure yet? The process explains every step before you commit to anything.
Questions
Hospitality and food questions we hear
Can we change the menu ourselves?
Yes. Menus are editable in your website admin, so seasonal changes and sold out items are quick to update.
Do we need professional photography?
Good photography makes the biggest difference in hospitality. If you do not have it yet we will design around what you have and tell you honestly what is worth shooting.
Can you handle online ordering?
We can link to your existing ordering platform. Full custom ordering systems are a Custom project.
More general answers are on the FAQs page.
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Ready when you are
Let’s build a website your business can be proud of.
Start the guided brief in about ten minutes. There is no payment required to begin and you will know what is included before anything is built.