Most restaurant decisions happen on a phone, often minutes before someone eats. They look at photos, check the menu, glance at reviews and want to book or order in a couple of taps. Restaurant marketing works when every one of those steps is quick and appetizing.

What does a restaurant website need?

A menu in text, not a PDF, so it loads fast on phones and search engines can read it.
Booking and ordering buttons linked to the platforms you already use.
Opening hours, address and parking, kept accurate, including holidays.
Great food and venue photos, compressed so pages still load quickly.
Private dining, events and catering pages if you offer them, since these are often valuable bookings.
Allergen and dietary information where you provide it.

Our website design service builds restaurant sites on WordPress so staff can update menus and specials themselves.

Is Google Business Profile more important than a website?

For many local restaurants, your Google Business Profile is the first thing people see. Keep hours, photos, menu link and booking link current, and respond to reviews politely. But a website still matters: it is the place you control, it supports your profile and it hosts events, catering and gift card pages that profiles do not handle well.

Food is made for Instagram and TikTok. Posts that tend to work for venues include:

New dishes and seasonal specials
The kitchen team and the people behind the counter
Short videos of preparation and plating
Events, live music and holiday menus
Reposted guest content, shared with permission

Our social media management service plans and publishes this for you, using footage your team captures during service.

Local ads that fill quiet nights

Meta Ads can promote events, new menus and slow-night offers to people nearby. Google Ads can help with high-value searches like private dining, catering or function venues. We keep budgets modest and focused on bookings or orders you can measure.

How can a restaurant get more Google reviews?

Ask, make it easy and respond. A short link or QR code on receipts, table cards or follow-up emails helps happy guests leave a review in seconds. Train staff to mention it naturally at the end of a good meal. Reply to every review, thanking guests for kind words and responding calmly and specifically to criticism. Never offer rewards in exchange for reviews or post fake ones; platforms prohibit it and guests can usually tell.

Your website can support this as well. A simple reviews section that links to your Google profile, alongside your menu and booking button, reminds new guests that real people enjoy eating with you.

How we work

Free growth audit of your website, Google profile and social channels.
Fixed-price quote for a website, or a monthly plan for social and ads.
Launch with booking and ordering clicks tracked.
Monthly reporting in plain English.

Get a free growth audit

Want to know where your restaurant or cafe is losing bookings? Request a free growth audit. Within two business days you will get a plain-English review of your website, Google presence and ads or social media, with the fixes we would make first. No obligation, and the advice is yours to keep.