Restaurant and takeaway website design
Restaurant websites that turn a hungry search into an order.
When someone searches for food near them at half past six on a wet Tuesday, they are hungry, on their phone, and deciding in seconds. We build fast, mobile-first restaurant and takeaway sites that put your menu and prices in front of them, take the order in one tap on your own brand, and keep the twenty to thirty per cent a marketplace would have taken. You own the site, the menu and the customer, not Just Eat. It starts with a free audit, then a fair quote.
- One-tap ordering
- A menu that is not a PDF
- Keep the marketplace cut
- Found on "food near me"
- Your customers, not theirs
In plain English
A restaurant or takeaway website has one job at dinnertime: turn someone holding their phone and feeling hungry into an order in your kitchen. That means being found on Google when they search, showing a menu with real prices that a thumb can read, and making the order or the table booking happen without hunting through a contact form. Everything else is decoration. We build the site that does the one job, put ordering on your own brand instead of a marketplace, sort your Google Business Profile so you show up on the map, and run the whole thing for you. You do not manage a dashboard. You cook, and the orders come in on a site you own.
The problem
What actually costs a restaurant money.
None of this is about a prettier website. It is about the everyday leaks that a good setup quietly plugs, the order that went to a marketplace instead of you, the hungry searcher who bounced, the PDF menu nobody could read on a phone.
The marketplace cut
List on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats and they take roughly twenty to thirty per cent of every order they send, before you have paid for the ingredients, the gas or the hour of labour. On a busy Friday that skim is the difference between a good night and a break-even one, gone before the food leaves the pass.
They own your customer
A marketplace holds the order, the name, the address, the phone number and the email. It can push a discount for the restaurant next door to the very people who just ordered from you, and you never even see who they are. You are paying a fee to rent access to your own regulars.
A menu trapped in a PDF
A photographed or PDF menu is unreadable on a phone: pinch, zoom, drag sideways, give up. Google cannot read the prices inside it, so you do not show up when someone searches your dish by name. A hungry person on a Tuesday night does not fight a PDF, they tap back and order from the place that made it easy.
A slow site on a spotty signal
Food searches happen on a phone, often on patchy mobile data at the bus stop, on the sofa mid-programme, or walking home. A heavy site stuffed with uncompressed photos that takes five seconds to load has already lost the order before your first dish appears on the screen.
Losing "food near me"
Most hungry customers decide from the Google listing before they ever click a site. If your Business Profile is thin, your hours are wrong on a bank holiday, or there is no menu link, the place two streets over gets the order and you never knew the search happened.
Hours and delivery guesswork
Customers cannot tell whether you are open tonight, whether you deliver to their postcode, or how long an order will take. Every unanswered question is a phone call you have to take with a pan on the go, or an order that quietly never comes because they were not sure and did not want to ask.
What we build
The restaurant site, built to take the order.
Every piece earns its place by getting one more order in your kitchen, or one more table booked, on a site you own. Nothing is decoration, and nothing slows the page down.
A menu that is not a PDF
Your full menu built as real text by section, with real prices, dietary and allergen flags, and the offers you want to push, laid out for a thumb and quick to load. Google can read it, screen readers can read it, and a hungry customer can order from it without pinching and zooming. When a price moves, you change one line, not the whole document.
One-tap ordering on your own brand
An "Order now" button on every scroll that goes straight to checkout on your own site, not a marketplace. The order, the customer details and the full margin all stay yours. No twenty to thirty per cent cut on the way out, and the payment lands in your account, not somebody else's platform.
Table booking, front and centre
For sit-down restaurants, pubs and cafés, a "Book a table" button wired to your own booking on every page, covers and time slots you control. No phone tag during service, no per-cover fee from a third party, and the diary appears where your team actually looks instead of a separate app nobody remembers to check.
Found on "food near me"
Your Google Business Profile claimed and optimised, the right primary category, correct opening hours including bank holidays, a menu link, photos of the actual food, and consistent details everywhere, all sitting on a fast site, so you show up in the Map Pack when someone nearby is deciding where to eat tonight.
Fast on a spotty signal
Built for a phone on 4G at the bus stop, not a desktop on fibre. Compressed food photos, light code, and a sub-half-second mobile load, so the order happens before a hungry customer loses patience and taps back to the search results. Speed is treated as a feature, because for food it decides who gets the order.
Hours and delivery area, plain
When you are open, the postcodes you deliver to, the minimum order, and roughly how long a delivery takes, all shown plainly so customers know before they ring. Fewer "do you deliver to me?" calls in the middle of service, and more orders that actually land because nobody was left guessing.
How the order happens
From a hungry search to a paid order, on your own site.
This is the path every order takes on your own brand: read the menu, add to the order, check out. Each step is one tap, and the whole thing keeps the twenty to thirty per cent a marketplace would have taken.
The ordering flow on your own site and brand. Every step is one tap, the payment lands with you, and the customer and their details stay yours, no marketplace cut and no rival being marketed to your regulars.
A real company, not a Gmail
Built and run by one accountable person.
- 17143167 Companies House registered (TicketWave HQ Ltd)
- Bespoke Live UK small-business sites, restaurants among them
- 20+ Years building for the web
- One bill No lock-in, one accountable point of contact
A week with it running
What actually changes, Monday to Monday.
No invented numbers, just the everyday moments a good setup quietly handles while you get on with the service in front of you.
- Mon
Someone searches for a takeaway near them at half past eight, lands on your listing, taps through to a fast site, reads the real menu and orders, and pays at checkout on your own brand. No marketplace took a cut. The order lands in your kitchen.
- Tue
A slow midweek evening looms, so a quick offer goes out to your own customer list, the one you own, not a marketplace's. A handful order who would not have. The margin stays with you because the order came through your own site.
- Wed
A first-timer wonders whether you deliver to their postcode. The delivery area is right there on the page, so they order instead of ringing during your busiest hour. One fewer phone call mid-service, one more order that actually lands.
- Thu
A couple looking for dinner find you on the Map Pack, see your correct hours, a menu with real prices and fresh photos of the food, and book a table in one tap. Your Google listing did the selling before they clicked.
- Fri
The Friday rush hits and every order comes straight to your own site, no twenty to thirty per cent skimmed off each ticket. The busiest night of the week is also the one where owning your ordering pays for itself.
- Mon
After the weekend, review requests go out to customers who ordered. A few leave five stars, so next week's hungry searchers see a stronger listing, and the customer list you own grows. It compounds, and none of it is rented.
The difference
Three ways to take a restaurant order.
The order still happens. The question is who owns the customer afterwards, how much of each ticket you keep, and whether a rival can be marketed to the people you just fed.
Do it yourself
A cheap website builder
- What you get
- A template and a login
- The ordering
- A widget you wire up yourself
- Who owns the customer
- You, if you set it up right
- The menu
- However you manage to build it
- Fee on each order
- None, but no ordering out of the box
- Google and local SEO
- Your job, after close
- Who keeps it running
- You, forever
You rent the customer
Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats
- What you get
- A listing in their app
- The ordering
- Theirs, on their terms
- Who owns the customer
- Them, name and address and all
- The menu
- On their platform, not your site
- Fee on each order
- Roughly twenty to thirty per cent
- Google and local SEO
- Their brand ranks, not yours
- The catch
- They keep the customer and can market a rival to the people you just fed
You own the order
UK Web Marketing
- What you get
- Your own site, expertly built
- The ordering
- On your site and brand, run for you
- Who owns the customer
- Entirely you, list and all
- The menu
- Fast, readable, and yours to change
- Fee on each order
- No cut of the ticket, one fair monthly fee
- Google and local SEO
- Sorted and run as part of the plan
- The deal
- One bill, no lock-in, website management from £49/month, quoted to your business
Free, no strings
Grab the Restaurant Website Checklist.
The twenty-two-point checklist we run when we take on a UK restaurant or takeaway: the Google Business Profile work, a menu that is not a PDF, one-tap ordering on your own brand, and the fast mobile site that turns a hungry search into an order. It is opinionated, and it is free.
Plug-in tools, same builder
Ordering that lives on your own site, not a marketplace.
Your UK Web Marketing build covers the website. Online ordering runs on a module from TicketWave HQ, the same company that builds your site, for a fair fee, all on one bill. The order, the payment and your customer list live on your own site, under your own brand, so you keep the twenty to thirty per cent a marketplace would have taken and you own the customer, not Just Eat or Deliveroo. There is no separate app to run and no separate login to remember.
Nothing to lose
Low risk, all the way through.
- Free audit, no cost, no sign-up
- £300 deep-dive credited against the build
- No lock-in, cancel any time
- You own your code, your site and your customer list
- 01
Free audit
An automated score of your current site in about a minute. No cost, no sign-up, no obligation.
Run a free audit - 02
£300 deep-dive
A consultation, a written audit of your whole setup and a fixed quote. The £300 is credited against your build.
Get the deep-dive - 03
Quoted build and management
Your restaurant or takeaway site built and run for you, website management from £49/month, one bill, no lock-in.
Talk it through
Local, and easy to reach
A real person on the end of the phone.
UK Web Marketing is operated by TicketWave HQ Ltd, a registered UK company you can verify on Companies House. You do not deal with a call centre or a ticket queue. The people who build your site are the people who run it for you, with one accountable point of contact. If you would rather talk it through than fill in a form, ring the number below.
Related reading
The guides that back this up, in full.
Plain guides written from real UK setups, not copied off a blog, on getting found, getting more orders, and what a small-business site actually needs.
- Guide
Getting found on Google: the local playbook
How a hungry searcher decides from the listing before they click. The Business Profile, hours, photos and fast-site work that gets a food business into the Map Pack.
- Guide
How to get more leads for a UK small business in 2026
Where the orders and enquiries actually come from, and how to stop paying a middleman for customers you could own outright.
- Guide
Five things every small-business website needs
The handful of things that decide whether a site earns its keep: fast load, clear prices, an obvious next step, and being found. The rest is decoration.
FAQ
Restaurant and takeaway websites, answered.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
There are no published package prices, because every restaurant and takeaway needs a slightly different mix. It starts with a free audit so you see where you stand at no cost. If you want the full picture, the £300 deep-dive gives you a consultation, a written audit and a fixed quote, and the £300 is credited against your build. The build itself is quoted to your business, then built and run for you with website management from £49 a month, and services may vary. One bill, no lock-in, cancel any time.
Can I take orders on my own site instead of Just Eat or Deliveroo?
Yes, and that is the whole point. Online ordering runs on your own site and brand, so the order, the payment and the customer stay with you. A marketplace takes roughly twenty to thirty per cent of every order it sends and owns the customer details, so it can market the place next door to your regulars. On your own site there is no cut of the ticket and no rival being sold to your customers. Many places keep a marketplace for discovery and push repeat customers to their own site, where the margin stays theirs.
Why is a PDF menu a problem?
A PDF or a photographed menu is unreadable on a phone: people have to pinch, zoom and drag, and most give up. Google cannot read the prices inside a PDF either, so you do not show up when someone searches for your dish, and a screen reader cannot read it at all. We build your menu as real text and sections, by dish and price, so it loads fast, reads on a thumb, and helps you get found. It is also far easier to change the day a price moves.
What matters more, the website or the Google listing?
For a restaurant or takeaway, the free Google Business Profile usually sends more new customers than the website itself. Most hungry people searching decide from the listing, the photos, the hours and the menu, before they ever click through. So the two work together: we sort your Business Profile and the local SEO basics, and we build a fast site that turns the click into an order or a booking.
How do you get me found for "food near me"?
Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and prominence. We work all three: your Business Profile fully completed with the right primary category, correct opening hours and a menu link, consistent name, address and phone everywhere, steady reviews you reply to, fresh food photos, and a fast mobile site. A place close to a hungry searcher usually beats a better-known one further away, so getting the local basics right is where the wins are.
Can customers book a table as well as order for delivery?
Yes. For sit-down restaurants and cafés, the site can put a "Book a table" button on every page wired to your own booking, alongside or instead of ordering. Takeaways lead with ordering, cafés often want both. You decide the balance, and the booking appears where your team actually looks, so there is no phone tag during service and no third-party booking fee on top.
How quickly can my restaurant site go live?
Most sites are live within a week or two of the brief being agreed. Builds with full online ordering, payments and a delivery-area setup take a little longer to wire up, but you will see a private preview early and it goes live the moment you are happy with it. You do not wait months.
Will the site be fast enough for someone on a bad signal?
That is exactly what we build for. Food searches happen on a phone, often on patchy mobile data, so we compress the food photos, keep the code light and aim for a sub-half-second load on mobile. A slow, heavy site loses the order before your first dish even appears on screen, which is why speed is treated as a feature, not an afterthought.
Do you take a cut of my orders or my customer list?
No. The ordering module runs on your own site and brand, and the customer list stays entirely yours. Ordering runs on a TicketWave HQ module, the same company that builds your site, which charges a fair fee on the same one bill. Unlike a marketplace, there is no twenty to thirty per cent commission on the orders and no marketing of a rival to your customers.
Can I change the menu and prices myself, or during a busy week?
Yes. Because the menu is built as real text rather than a locked PDF, a price change, a sold-out dish or a new special is a quick edit, and you can hand that off to us on one bill rather than wrestling a design file yourself. Allergen and dietary flags sit against each dish, so a seasonal change or a supplier swap does not mean rebuilding anything. The point of owning the site is that the menu moves as fast as your kitchen does.
What if I want to cancel?
Cancel any time, one click. There is no lock-in. The running plan ends at the end of the month you have already paid for. You own your code and your domain is registered in your name, so you walk away with everything, including your menu and your customer list.
Ready when you are
Let us take the order.
Start with a free audit of your current site, then a quote built for your kitchen. A menu that is not a PDF, one-tap ordering on your own brand, table booking, and the Google work that puts you on the map, built and run for you with website management from £49 a month, one bill, no lock-in. Want the full plan first? The £300 deep-dive gives you a written audit and a fixed quote, credited against any build.
Or ring us on 0113 460 2103.