A website builder for restaurants

Hours and location, before anything else

The first screen carries what a hungry person checks: today's hours, the address, the phone, and a map link. Holiday hours, the kitchen closing earlier than the bar, and parking notes go right below, in your words.

The in-app assistant asks about all of it, including which nights you close. Change the hours by telling it, and every publish keeps a version you can roll back to.

The menu is a page, not a store

There is no online ordering checkout on a site built here, and this page will not pretend otherwise. If you take orders online, the site carries an Order link in the header that goes to the service you already use.

The menu itself is written as real text: sections, dishes, a line of description, and prices if you want them shown. A menu that is only a photo or a scanned file cannot be read by a search engine, by an answer engine, or by a screen reader. A text menu can.

Update it by telling the assistant what changed, or write the page yourself in plain paragraphs at no charge. A seasonal menu can be scheduled to publish at a date and time in your own time zone.

Reservations through the service you use

If you take reservations through a booking service, the site links to it from the header and from a reservations page. That page states your policy: party sizes, walk-ins, deposits for large groups, how far ahead to book. Those policies are yours. The assistant writes them as you say them.

If you book through one of the calendar tools the builder supports, it adds a book-a-time section that loads only when a visitor opens it. If you take reservations by phone only, the number and the hours the phone is answered sit at the top of the page.

Catering and private events get their own pages

Catering is a different customer with a different question: can you feed my office, my wedding, my family after a funeral. A catering page says what you offer, how far you deliver, the notice you need, and what a quote requires. A private events page describes the room, the capacity in your words, and what a buyout involves.

The form on every page works as the inquiry: name, phone, date, type of event, and a line about the group. Each submission is delivered to your email, a text message, or your CRM. You can add a status and a note to each one on the Leads screen, so nothing gets lost during a Friday service.

Photos of your own food

Upload your photos and the assistant places them. AI-generated images are optional and priced before anything is generated, but a picture of a dish you do not serve is a promise you cannot keep. Your own photos, even phone photos in good light, are the honest choice.

A short video of the room can be added as a click-to-load hero from a YouTube or Vimeo link. The page stays light until a visitor asks for it.

Dietary notes with careful wording

Guests ask about gluten, nuts, dairy and vegan options. The menu page can mark what you tell the assistant to mark, in your words, with a line asking guests to tell their server about any allergy.

The site makes no health claim about a dish, and it does not say a kitchen is free of anything unless you say so and mean it.

What the interview asks a restaurant

Expect questions about your hours and location, the menu section by section, where reservations and online orders are taken, catering and events, and what makes the place yours. A second location can be its own site with its own hours and its own menu.

The site is written from a conversation and every page passes a check that runs before anything publishes. Google Search Essentials favors pages that are genuinely useful to the person reading them, and for a restaurant that person is standing outside deciding whether to come in. The AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI answers read the same plain hours and menu text.

The full-service restaurants trade, in Census numbers

• 258,626 Full-service restaurants establishments in the United States (NAICS 722511, County Business Patterns 2023) U.S. Census County Business Patterns 2023
• 5,387,020 people employed in Full-service restaurants in the United States (NAICS 722511, County Business Patterns 2023) U.S. Census County Business Patterns 2023

Figures are from the source named beside each one, as published. They describe the area or the trade, not this product.