Twin Cities · Minnesota
Websites for Twin Cities restaurants.
Hungry people search on a phone in the parking lot. If hours, the menu, and the address are not immediate, they drive to the next place. We build that first screen, then the rest of the site around it.
What goes on the site
- Hours, address, and tap-to-call above the fold
- Menu that loads fast on cellular
- Google Maps embed and Business Profile guidance
- Photo treatment that matches the room, not stock food
What your customers actually type into Google
Restaurant searches happen on a phone, often within a mile of the door, and usually within an hour of eating. Everything below the first screen is a bonus.
- restaurants open now near me
- Google reads your hours from Business Profile. Wrong hours here costs covers directly.
- [your restaurant] menu
- People searching your name want the menu, not your story. Make it one tap.
- best jollof Minneapolis
- Dish-level searches. A menu in real text can rank for these; a menu in a PDF cannot.
- halal restaurant St Paul
- Dietary and cuisine filters. Say it plainly on the page if it applies to you.
Where restaurant sites usually go wrong
These are common problems found in existing sites. Many can be fixed without a rebuild, including by the developer you already work with.
The menu is a PDF
A PDF is slow on cellular, pinch-to-zoom on a phone, and largely invisible for dish-level searches. The menu should be real text on a real page. This is the single most common and most expensive mistake in the category.
The menu is a photograph of a printed menu
Same problem, worse. It cannot be read by a screen reader, cannot be searched, and is unreadable on a phone without zooming.
Hours live only on Facebook or Instagram
Then Google may show hours that are weeks out of date, and someone drives to a closed door. Hours belong on the site and on Business Profile, and holiday changes need updating in both.
A full-screen video before anything useful
It burns cellular data and delays the three things the visitor came for. Atmosphere can come after hours, address and menu, not before.
What it costs
The Launch package is $300 for up to three pages, with optional managed hosting at $20/month. Domain costs are separate. Business is $600 for up to six pages and Signature is $1,000 for up to ten. A website chatbot is $349 setup plus $25 a month. Those are fixed prices, published before you call — see the pricing page or the 60-second planner.
Many restaurants fit the Launch or Business package. If a focused three-page site covers the need, the recommendation will reflect that.
Questions restaurants ask
Can you take my existing PDF menu and turn it into a page?
Yes, and that alone is usually the biggest single improvement. Send the PDF and it comes back as a fast, readable page you can update.
Do I need online ordering?
Often not. If most orders are phone or walk-in, ordering adds cost and a commission you may not need. If you already use Toast, Square or DoorDash, we link to it rather than rebuilding it.
Who updates the menu when prices change?
You can update it on the hosted plan, or request an edit. Menu updates are part of the launch plan, because prices and offerings change often.
Do you do the food photography?
Food photography is not included. Authentic photos of your actual dishes and space are usually more useful than stock images; professional photography can be scoped separately.
Work you can check
We already ship fast, focused sites for restaurant owners. The Launch package is $300 for up to 3 pages and usually live in 2–3 days once the menu and photos are in. Open the full portfolio — every live client site there is on a domain the client owns.
Serving the Twin Cities
Most of this work is around Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Maple Grove, Plymouth and Coon Rapids, and remote anywhere else in Minnesota.
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