30% of every
dish goes
to delivery.
And with it the customer's data. You can't send them a birthday offer or know if they've come back. The relationship stays with the app.
Restaurant website design.
Service
A website that's yours. Restaurant website design built around the way the venue actually runs, with a menu your team updates in 30 seconds without ringing anyone, bookings that pay 0% commission, and the guest database sitting in your account instead of an app's. No Wix, no templates, no TheFork charging 8% for every cover walking through your own front door. The whole thing runs remotely, wherever the restaurant is.
Custom website + editable menu + own bookings + multi-language | 2-6 weeks | from €1,425
The problem
Your restaurant pays a silent tax to the apps.
Every booking that comes through TheFork leaves its commission. Every dish through Glovo, 30% lost along the way. The customers who ordered belong to the app, not to you. And the website still shows last quarter's menu.
30% of every
8% per booking
Average commission per intermediated booking. On 200 bookings a month that's hundreds of euros you pay for customers walking into your own place.
40%
Visitors who leave
if your site takes 3 s on mobile
- Lighthouse mobile
- 38/100
- Edit the menu yourself
- No
Changing a price or posting the daily menu depends on someone else. The site shows the menu from three months ago and a dish you no longer serve.
3 months of average lag
How I solve it
A website that's yours. And everything that happens on it, too.
Good restaurant website design starts from the operation rather than from the photographs, because the site is the venue's first door, the booking system, the menu and the guest database all at once. Bespoke, no templates, no middlemen charging you for every customer who walks in.
Service architecture in 5 layers
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01
A website with your identity, not a template.
Designed from scratch for your restaurant. Different from your competition. Like your kitchen: with the produce, the light and the rhythm that defines your place. No recycled themes, no generic builders that flatten the brand.
- No themes
- Custom design
- Your own brand
- No Wix
-
02
You change the menu without calling anyone.
The daily menu, the prices, the new dishes. You edit it yourself in 30 seconds from your own panel. No monthly invoices for every change. No waiting for whoever built the site to reply. Your site's menu is always up to date.
- Your own panel
- Edit in 30 s
- Multi-language
- No extra invoices
-
03
Your own bookings, 0% commission.
The customer books on your site, not on TheFork. Their email and phone stay in your database, with no expiry. Every confirmed booking sends an automatic email to the customer and the restaurant. Zero middlemen charging commission.
- 0% commission
- Own your data
- Automatic emails
- No TheFork
-
04
One panel where you manage everything.
Menu, daily menu, bookings, languages, reviews. Built so anyone on your team can use it, with no need to call a technician every time. One hour of training and it stays in the restaurant's hands forever.
- All in one
- Easy to use
- Training included
- Multi-user
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05
You show up well on Google and on maps.
It loads fast, is optimised for mobile and set up so Google understands you're a restaurant. LocalBusiness schema, optimised Google Business profile, opening hours and cuisine type where the search engines read them. When somebody standing on your street searches for dinner nearby, you show up.
- LocalBusiness schema
- Google Business
- Local SEO
- Lighthouse 95+
Comparison
Three paths for your restaurant online. Only one leaves it in your hands.
Commission per booking
N/A (no bookings)
5-10% each
0% always
Customer data
Limited
Belong to TheFork
100% yours, exportable
Edit the menu
Rigid template
N/A
Your own panel, 30 s
Payment model
Indefinite subscription
Commission per booking
One-off payment + optional support
Brand identity
Generic
TheFork brand
Custom from scratch
How to choose
What a restaurant website design company should hand over at the end.
Strip the branding off and most quotes list the same four things, so the differences between one restaurant website design agency and the next only surface once the invoice is paid. These are the points worth pinning down before anybody starts drawing, and they are fair to ask me as well.
1. Who ends up owning the bookings? A site that pushes every table through TheFork is renting you your own regulars, and the fee carries on for as long as that guest keeps coming back. Ask where the booking is stored, whose database holds the email address, and what it costs you the day you want to export the lot and walk.
2. Can the floor change the menu without ringing anyone? Prices move, suppliers change and the daily menu gets written at eight in the morning, so a site that needs a developer for any of that drifts out of date inside a season. What earns its keep is a panel your manager can open on a phone between services, not a support address that answers in three days.
3. Is it built for somebody deciding on the pavement? Most restaurant traffic arrives on a mobile from a person who is already hungry and already close to the door, so the site has to load in under two seconds, read at arm's length and tell Google in plain schema what kind of kitchen you run and when you open.
4. Who actually does the work? An agency quote usually pays for an account manager, a project lead and a developer you never speak to, and the brief loses a little at every handover. Here the person on the call is the person writing the code, which is why a full restaurant site closes in weeks rather than months.
None of it depends on the postcode. The studio is in Mallorca and the work has always run remotely, with a video call to open, a preview link you can watch while the design goes up and the deploy handled from here, so a venue in Bristol gets the same build as one in Palma. The five restaurants already live came out of that island work, Son Colom in Felanitx, Triple and Fat y Salat in Ses Salines, and Sorrentino's and La Vespa in Artà, each one with its own menu, its own set of languages and its own way of taking a table.
Real case
Restaurant in Felanitx, 4 languages.
Premium restaurant with
own bookings and editable menu.
Booking commission:
0% always,
no TheFork in the middle
What I deliver in every restaurant website:
- Menu editable from your own panel in 30 s
- Own bookings with data in your database
- Structural multi-language (ES/CA/EN/DE)
- Full LocalBusiness + Restaurant schema
"Impeccable design, a panel where I manage the menu, daily specials and reservations without calling anyone, and even a system that automatically asks customers for reviews."
Pagespeed score
Verified in production with PageSpeed Insights before closing the deploy. If it doesn't hit 95+ mobile, it doesn't go live.
6-8
weeks
From signed proposal to deploy. Restaurant industry average with an agency: 4-6 months.
Investment
Every restaurant is different. So is the budget.
No standard rates.
No surprises.
Before quoting a number, we talk 20 minutes to understand what you need and what you don't. Within 2-3 days you get a closed proposal with scope, timeline and price. You decide calmly.
Indicative pricing
Conversion Landing
Restaurant landing + bookings via TheFork/Cover + menu + 1 extra language + tracking
from €745
5-7 days
Conversion Web
Restaurant website + editable menu + basic bookings + multi-language + technical SEO
from €1,425
2-3 weeks
Complete System
Own bookings 0% commission + custom admin panel + review autopilot + 4 languages + integrations
from €2,625
4-6 weeks
- Free discovery call included in every package
- 30-60 days of free post-launch iteration
Response time
2-3 days
Book 20-min call
Frequently asked questions about restaurant website design
The questions restaurant owners ask most before commissioning the website.
It depends on what you need, because a site with a digital menu doesn't cost what a full system with its own bookings and admin panel costs. That's why we talk for 20 minutes before any number gets quoted, and within 2-3 days you get a closed proposal with scope, timeline and price. No commitment to continue.
Yes, and the process was built that way from the start. Everything happens over video and a preview link you can open whenever you like, from the first 20-minute call through to the deploy, so nothing in the build needs me standing in your dining room. The five restaurant sites live today are in Mallorca because that's where the studio is, and the same work travels to any venue in a timezone that lets us share an afternoon.
One person, and that's the argument rather than the caveat. A restaurant website design agency puts an account manager and a project lead between your brief and the code, which is where a good share of the budget and most of the detail tend to go. You talk to me, I design it, I build it and I hand it over, which is why a full site closes in weeks instead of the four to six months an agency usually books for it. When something falls outside my patch, photography or heavy branding, I bring in people I've worked with for years and you still deal with one contact.
Because they lock you in. Wix, Squarespace and similar are fast at the start, but they don't let you have your own panel, your own customer database or bookings without paying a monthly fee. When you grow, you have to rebuild everything. A well-built site you pay for once and it's yours.
Yes. The panel is built so anyone on your team can use it. Changing a price, adding the daily menu or removing a dish takes 30 seconds. No developers and no monthly invoices.
Both are possible. The recommendation is own system (0% commission, your data), but if you already have flow coming in through TheFork you can keep both during transition. We decide on the first call based on your volume. And if you want the exact numbers the apps take: analysis of Glovo and TheFork commissions.
As many as you need. The Son Colom site has 4 (Spanish, Catalan, English and German), and the Sorrentino's and La Vespa ones go up to 6. In a venue with international footfall the floor is English plus the local language, and you add German, French or Italian when the booking list says they earn their place.
Every confirmed booking sends automatic emails to the customer and the restaurant. And if you want, a week after the visit the system asks the customer to leave a review on Google. Your rating goes up without you having to lift a finger.
Let's talk.
If your restaurant is paying commissions you didn't want to pay, or if the website you have today isn't at the level of the kitchen, let's talk for 20 minutes. I tell you what makes sense for your case and what doesn't. Without selling you anything you don't need.
Book 20-min callFree 20-min call.
Pick a time that works for you. No commitment, just a conversation about your restaurant.
What happens next.
After the call I send you a closed proposal in 2-3 days: scope, timeline and price. No surprises.