Websites for restaurants, food shops and caterers

Where to eat tonight, which bakery opens on Monday, who can feed forty guests in June: food businesses are chosen on a phone, often within the hour. Each site below is written for one trade, with its menu or products written out as text, its opening hours and the kind of request its customers make, a table, a pre-order or a quote for an event.

A menu people can read on a phone

Someone searching for a restaurant open tonight or a bakery in Lille wants to see what you serve and what it costs. A scanned PDF has to be zoomed and is poorly read by search engines. Every site in this group writes the dishes or products out as text, by section, each with its price and a line on what goes into it, so a customer can decide in a few seconds and a search engine can find the dish by name.

Tables, pre-orders and event quotes

A restaurant takes table requests with the date, time and number of guests. A bakery or a butcher takes orders to collect on a given day. A caterer receives quote requests with the event, the date and the number of people. Each site asks for what that trade needs and nothing more, and the request reaches you directly, without a platform taking a commission on it.

Allergens, origins and the other rules of the trade

French rules ask food businesses to give the major allergens in writing, and restaurants to show the origin of the meat they buy raw. Wine shops fall under the loi Évin, which limits how alcohol can be presented. The sites in this group are written with these rules in mind: an allergen line on each dish, origin on the dish page, the health warning in the footer of a wine shop. You adapt the content to your own products.

Hours that are right on bank holidays

Few things lose a customer faster than a closed door after a trip across town. Opening hours, closing days and exceptions sit on every page and are easy to change from a phone, and a food truck shows its pitches for the week instead of a fixed address.

Pick your trade below and open its live demo: you will see your own site, with your name and your first dishes, before creating an account.

Questions

Before you start.
Everything else, just ask.

What people ask before they get going.

Can customers order or book a table through the site?

They send a request with the date, time and party size, or the products and collection day. You confirm by phone or message. Payment is made on site, as usual.

I change my menu every week. Is that a lot of work?

No. Each dish or product is a row with its section, price and description; you edit or hide a row and the pages follow.

Where do allergens go?

Each dish has its own allergen line, shown on its page, so customers can check before they come.

How much does the site cost?

Building and previewing are free, with no bank card. Publishing on your own domain costs €14 excl. VAT a month, billed for the year, hosting and SSL included.