Restaurants, cafes, bars, food trucks. The map listing, the hours and the menu do the selling. Getting those three right beats everything else combined.
Restaurants are the clearest case in local search of a simple rule: the map listing is the business. Somebody hungry searches, looks at the three results in the map pack, checks that you are open, glances at the star rating and a photo, and goes. Many never load your website at all.
Which makes the highest-value work in this industry unglamorous housekeeping. Hours that are correct, including the holiday ones nobody updated. Photos that are yours and recent. Reviews answered — all of them, including the bad ones, briefly and without arguing. Categories and attributes filled in properly so you surface for “outdoor seating” and “open late” and every other filter people actually use.
Then there is the menu, which is where nearly everyone loses. A menu as a PDF or a flat image is invisible: search engines read it poorly, AI assistants cannot quote it, and phones render it as something the reader has to pinch and drag. Every one of those is a customer deciding it is not worth the effort. A menu as real HTML text, with prices, marked up as structured data, is readable by a phone, by Google, and by an assistant asked “where can I get good tacos near here that is open now”. That last one is a channel that barely existed three years ago and it answers from structured data.
The phone matters here too, but differently: the calls are bookings and large orders, they come in bunches at exactly the moments the room is busiest, and a missed one is a table of eight going elsewhere.
Ordered by what tends to pay back soonest for restaurants and cafes — not by what is most expensive. Your plan may reorder it once we’ve looked at what you already have.
Found by the people already searching for what you do.
The technical half of search that most agencies quietly skip: schema markup, a clean sitemap, an llms.txt so AI assistants quote you accurately instead of guessing, and IndexNow so Bing and Copilot see a change the day it ships rather than a month later.
What that meansA site that answers questions and books work while you’re on a job.
A fast, written-from-scratch site that loads in under a second and reads like a person wrote it. Built as static HTML — so there’s no plugin to update, no page-builder subscription, and nothing sitting there waiting to get hacked.
What that meansA feed that stays alive on the weeks you’re flat out.
Consistent posting built from work you’re already doing — job photos, before and afters, the questions customers keep asking. Queued weeks ahead, so the account doesn’t go quiet the moment you get busy, which is exactly when it matters most.
What that meansEvery missed call gets answered — including the 7pm one.
A missed call is usually a customer already dialling the next name on the list. Automated callback catches the enquiry within seconds, answers the obvious questions, and either books the appointment or hands you a warm lead with the details already collected.
What that meansSpend you can trace to a booked job.
Paid search and social, run tightly and reported honestly. Every campaign points at a page built to convert, and every dollar is tracked through to a lead you can name — so you can tell the difference between a campaign that works and one that just spends.
What that meansTaking your menu out of a PDF and putting it on the page as real text, with prices, marked up properly. It costs one afternoon. It makes your menu readable on a phone without pinching, quotable by an AI assistant, and indexable by every dish you serve — which is how people search when they are hungry and specific. Almost no independent restaurant has done it, which is exactly why it is worth doing.
You probably should not, and we will say so. What is usually still worth fixing is the housekeeping — correct hours, an accurate readable menu, reviews answered — because that work protects what you have rather than trying to add to it. A packed restaurant with wrong holiday hours on Google still turns people away, and they do not come back to check.
Nothing here competes with them directly, but the aim is to make direct ordering the easier path for people who already know you. Those platforms own the customer relationship and take a substantial cut of every order — so the sensible position is to use them for discovery and make sure your own site, menu and phone are the frictionless option for regulars.
We set up the system and draft the routine ones, and you approve everything before it posts. Anything involving a genuine complaint gets written by a person who works there, because a templated apology to a real problem reads exactly like what it is and does more damage than silence. Never buy reviews and never write fake ones — platforms detect it and the penalty is severe.
It changes the structure quite a lot. Each location needs its own listing, its own page with its own hours and its own menu differences, and the pages have to be distinct enough not to compete with each other in search. That is a genuinely different build from a single site, and it gets scoped at the walkthrough rather than guessed at.
Quotes written at 9pm, calls missed from the top of a ladder, leads that go cold in three days.
What we build for themA booking system that fights you, no-shows that cost a full chair, and a phone ringing mid-appointment.
What we build for themCommission enquiries scattered across four inboxes, and a portfolio nobody can find.
What we build for themTrial leads that never get a second message, and members who quietly stop showing up.
What we build for themOne walkthrough call, a written plan with fixed prices against it, and no obligation to build any of it with us.
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