A site built to pull bookings off the aggregators.
A third-party ordering or booking app is a normal part of running a food business now, and it is also the reason so many restaurant sites are an afterthought — a PDF menu and a link to someone else’s platform, with someone else’s cut on every transaction that happens there.
We build the site as the place a customer actually wants to be, not a waiting room before they get redirected somewhere else: the menu, the photography, the reservation or contact path, front and centre. The goal is simple — every booking or order a site can pull back onto your own domain is one that does not pay a platform fee.
Same fixed-scope process as everywhere else on this site: a written plan before anything starts, and a build you own outright when it ships.
What sits inside it.
4 listedDirect reservations
A booking or enquiry path that keeps the relationship with you, not a third-party app.
Brand Identity
Photography, type and colour that carry the room online the way it feels in person.
Ecommerce
Selling online — merchandise, gift cards, pre-orders — without a platform running the business.
Local Search
Found by the searches that actually convert: "near me", the neighbourhood, the dish.
Not a hypothetical.
Nouvelle Côte. A Riviera dining room whose atmosphere never made it online. The rebuild is image-led — the photography carries the room — with direct reservations front and centre, specifically to pull bookings back off the aggregators. (Reservations, not delivery ordering — the real engagement, stated as it actually was.)
Answered.
Yes — as a web application built around how the business actually operates, the same capability behind any custom ordering, booking or membership system on this site (see /digital). What is not offered is a specific off-the-shelf "commission-free ordering" product — every build here is scoped to the business, not sold as a fixed package.
That is your call, not something the site forces. Most clients keep a delivery platform for the customers who want it and use their own site to win back the bookings and orders that do not need one — direct reservations, pickup, gift cards, the regulars who would rather not pay a platform fee.
Yes — day-to-day edits like menu and price changes are part of what the Care Plan covers, and the site is built so you are not locked out of your own content between visits.
Not quite your business?
Every capability here applies outside these two industries as well — see what we build for the general case.
Talk to us about your site.
A few lines is enough. We reply within one business day, and the first answer is usually a question rather than a pitch.
Fixed scope, quoted before anything starts.