What a restaurant site needs to carry before it is worth publishing. Restaurant website design with TableSpark →
A domain registered by a former designer, with renewal notices going to a dead inbox, risks a restaurant site going offline and its name being lost. Here is how to buy, own and connect it.
A shared free-mail login lets the password walk out with the manager, and confirmations that look like spam can lose the guest. Here is how to set up a restaurant email address on your own domain.
A wine dinner with no page to book, a ticket fee on every seat and a band booked before anyone checked the music licence can turn a quiet night into a loss. Here is how to price, license and sell restaurant events.
A good-looking restaurant website can still miss the checks that get it found and booked. Brief, contract and accept a designer's work against five tests, not the mock-up.
Most independent UK restaurant websites load and look finished, but in a 1,000-site audit the typical one had five problems flagged, and the gaps send guests and their money to directories and marketplaces.
A café website that shows the wrong hours, a PDF menu and no allergen text loses the morning rush to the place next door, and the cheap builder price can hide a bigger monthly bill.
Your site loads and the link works, yet guests searching your name may reach a directory first. Here is a checklist built on 1,000 UK restaurant homepages, with the gaps that leave a site invisible.
Your menu runs to hundreds of numbered dishes, the phone rings through the rush and marketplace commission is taken before you are paid. Here is what a Chinese restaurant website must do, and what it costs.
Your best nights run through other people's tablets, and the commission is taken before you are paid. Here is what an Italian restaurant or pizzeria website must do, and what it really costs.
You pick a builder on its headline price, then find the plan that takes payments costs more, bookings and orders are separate subscriptions, and guests still reach a marketplace first.
Your menu runs to 100 dishes, orders arrive on someone else's tablet and the commission is taken before you are paid. Here is what an Indian restaurant website must do, and what it really costs.
The template looked finished, then the menu was a picture, booking needed another subscription and guests searching your name found a directory. Here is the full cost of a template and its gaps.