Commission on your own regulars
Paying per cover for a customer who has been coming for six years, and who found you by walking past.
Foundation Who we build for Cafés & restaurants
A booking platform takes a cut of every cover and keeps the customer's details. We build you the site that takes the booking directly, keeps the data, and costs the same whether you do twenty covers or two hundred.
The bit that hurts
Most independents end up renting their own front door. The booking platform has the diary, the customer list and a percentage of every cover.
Paying per cover for a customer who has been coming for six years, and who found you by walking past.
The PDF from 2023 is still on the site because changing it means emailing whoever built it. Meanwhile the specials board is three dishes ahead.
Phone, Instagram DMs, a platform and a paper book. Nobody can say with confidence how many are coming on Saturday.
You served four thousand people last year and cannot email a single one of them about the new opening hours.
An example site
Food sites live or die on warmth and on whether the menu is current. This example is warm retro, changes its own “out of the oven today” ticker, and puts opening hours where people look.
Fenwick & Crumb is a fictional bakery. This is a working example site.
What we build for you
Everything here is yours — the bookings, the customers and the money. No per-cover cut, no platform sitting between you and the person eating.
Covers, sittings, table sizes and turn times, booked on your own site. You pay for the software once, not per head, forever.
Change a price, sell out of a dish, add a special. Takes thirty seconds on a phone and it is live, including in the structured data Google reads.
Pre-orders for the counter, paid up front, with a pick-up time the kitchen can actually hit.
A party of twelve on a Saturday can hold with a card. It is the cheapest insurance against an empty room there is.
Every booking builds a list you own and can email — the new menu, the Christmas dates, the Tuesday that is quiet.
Change them in one place and the site, Google and the booking rules all follow. No more “but Google said you were open”.
How it goes
Menus and hours go in before launch, and you get shown how to change them yourself in about five minutes. That is the bit that decides whether a food site stays current.
Menus, sittings, table plan, turn times and how far ahead you take bookings.
Live, with the menu on it and booking working.
Sittings, covers, table sizes and deposit rules configured with you.
Five minutes, on your phone, so tomorrow's specials do not need us.
Sound like your week?
Tell us what eats it — you'll have a fixed price back today, usually within the hour.
Where we work
Food search is almost entirely local and almost entirely on a phone. Every site is built mobile-first with the hours, the menu and the booking one tap from anywhere.
On your doorstep
We're in Windlesham, and we'll come to you — a coffee and a whiteboard beats a video call. Anywhere within twenty miles, plus the whole of London.
And everywhere else
We build for food businesses across the UK and the US. Booking, ordering and menus work the same wherever the kitchen is.
What it costs
A café or restaurant website starts at £250. Table booking, ordering and deposits are quoted free.
Or £220 up front and £19 a month — we host it, back it up nightly and keep the certificate valid. Compare both →
Get my priceNothing gets built until you've seen the price, and the price doesn't move afterwards. If it takes us longer than we thought, that's our problem, not your invoice.
Quick answers
The website starts at £250, or £220 up front plus £19 a month hosted and looked after. Table booking and ordering are quoted free and priced on what they do — never per cover.
No. That is the entire point. You pay for the software once, and a busy Saturday costs you exactly the same as a quiet Tuesday.
Yes, in about thirty seconds on your phone, and the change reaches the page and the structured data Google reads at the same time.
Yes, through Stripe, on whichever bookings you choose — usually parties above a size you set, and December.
They come across. We will not switch you over into an empty diary on a Friday afternoon.
Yes. They are your bookings on your system, and the mailing list they build is yours to use.
Answered?
Two fields and a tap. You'll hear back from a real person, usually today.
Also built for
Different words on the front, the same machinery behind it. See every trade we build for →