Web Design Collective

Web design and SEO for Restaurants & Cafes

Restaurant websitesthat fill tables directly.

Good restaurant website design gets people from a hungry search to a booked table in a few taps. We build websites for restaurants and cafes, and run local SEO that brings in bookings, orders and functions without a commission on every one.

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Australian chef passing a plated dish to a waiter in a bright Gold Coast restaurant, the kind of busy service good restaurant website design supports
Direct bookings and orders on your own site250+ Australian businesses we've built forSince 2014 building websites on the Gold Coast

Tickets on the rail

Where your venueis losing covers.

Most venues are great at food and service, and let the website sit untouched for years. These are the tickets we see stuck on the rail.

  1. Docket 001

    86'd

    Commission on every order

    When the only way to order online is a delivery app, a big slice of every sale goes out the door. Regulars would happily order direct if you gave them the option.

  2. Docket 002

    Cold

    A menu nobody can read

    A PDF that takes ten seconds to load and needs pinching and zooming. Most people give up and look at the place next door.

  3. Docket 003

    Missing

    Not in the map for your suburb

    "Brunch Burleigh" or "Italian restaurant Broadbeach" is decided in the map pack. Out-of-date hours, few photos or a thin website push you down it.

  4. Docket 004

    Waiting

    Function enquiries lost in the inbox

    A message on social here, a phone call there, none of them with a date or numbers. By the time you reply, the booking has gone elsewhere.

How diners choose where to eat

Restaurant SEOfor hungry local searches.

People search by craving, by suburb and by occasion, often on the way out the door. Good restaurant SEO has an answer ready for each.

Most restaurant SEO starts with your Google Business Profile: correct hours, a menu link, great photos and a steady flow of reviews. Then the website backs it up with a fast menu page, a clear location page and pages for the occasions you want more of.

For a cafe or restaurant marketing plan, that local base matters more than anything else. Get it right and the searches that happen on the footpath start ending at your door.

Searches worth owning

  • “best brunch near me”Urgent, map pack decides it
  • “italian restaurant broadbeach”Cuisine plus suburb, high intent
  • “function venue gold coast”Big bookings, worth a real page
  • “dog friendly cafe burleigh”Specific need, easy to win
  • “restaurant with ocean view”Occasion search, photos sell it

What we build for venues

A restaurant websitethat takes the booking.

Cafe and restaurant website design that shows off the food, loads fast on a phone and makes booking the obvious next step.

Hospitality marketing you own

The apps own the customer.Your website gives them back.

Delivery and booking apps bring in customers, and that has real value. But they keep the relationship. You don't get the email address, you can't invite them back for a new menu and you pay again every time they order.

Direct bookings and orders change that. Every one is a customer you can welcome back, with no commission taken. We make ordering and booking on your own site as easy as using an app, so regulars choose it without being asked.

Real results

Proof we can stand behind,from businesses that sell on trust.

We don't have a restaurant case study with numbers to publish yet, so we won't pretend we do. These results come from an accounting firm, a builder and a local trade: local businesses where being found first and making the next step easy decides who gets the customer.

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How we work with restaurants and cafes

From first lookto full tables.

  1. 01

    Project review

    Your site, your map listing, your competitors and where bookings come from now.

  2. 02

    Local plan

    Which searches, occasions and suburbs to target, and how to move orders direct.

  3. 03

    Design and build

    A fast site with menu, booking, ordering and function enquiries connected.

  4. 04

    Grow and refine

    We watch bookings and orders by source, find what holds them back and fix it.

FAQ

Restaurant website questions

  • Yes. Social media and delivery apps are useful, but you don't control them and many take a cut. Your own site is where bookings, direct orders, functions and gift vouchers come in without a commission, and it's what Google leans on when deciding which venues to show.

  • Restaurant SEO is making your venue show up when people nearby search for somewhere to eat. Most of it is local: a well-kept Google Business Profile with photos, hours and a menu, steady reviews, and a fast website with pages for your menu, functions and location.

  • Ideally not. PDFs are slow to open on a phone, hard to read and Google can't use them well. A proper menu page loads instantly, is easy to update and helps you rank for the dishes and cuisine you're known for. Keep a PDF as a download if you like.

  • Yes. We connect your booking system and online ordering so customers can do both on your site. Direct orders mean you keep more of each sale, and you own the customer details for your own marketing.

  • Yes. Functions are often the most valuable bookings a venue takes. We build a functions page with spaces, capacities, sample menus and an enquiry form that asks for date, numbers and budget, so you can quote quickly.

  • Our monthly plans include the website, hosting, care and local SEO from $1,199 a month plus GST. If you only need a website, one-off builds start from $4,000 plus GST. We recommend the right option after a project review.

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