A website for a casual or family restaurant that keeps hours, kids menus and specials current
A casual or family restaurant site earns its keep by answering the questions a family checks before they leave the house: are you open, is there a kids menu, and what is tonight's special. Those three answers have to be right every single time, because a wrong hours listing costs a table that will not call back.
What usually goes wrong for casual and family restaurants
- Holiday hours are wrong or missing, so families show up to a locked door on a Sunday.
- There is no separate kids menu page, so parents cannot check it before deciding where to eat.
- Weekly specials live on a chalkboard photo posted to social media and nowhere on the actual site.
- The site was built years ago on a page builder and nobody on staff can safely change a price without breaking the layout.
The pages your site will carry
- Home
- Menu
- Kids menu
- Specials
- Hours and location
- Catering
- Reviews
- Contact
Specials and hours board
A specials section built into the site itself, not a social post, updated as part of the weekly detail update so tonight's board is always right without anyone on staff touching code.
What is included, specifically for casual and family dining
- Live in 7 days on The Daily Menu
- 5 revisions a month, no size limit
- Domain and Cloudflare hosting included
- Enquiries routed into your CRM by API, Zapier or Make
Three ways to run it
The Daily Menu
The website, fully managed, live in 7 days
The Full Menu
Everything, plus the AI Engine, live in 10 days
The Tasting Menu
Everything, plus the Content Engine, live in 15 days
What casual and family dining owners notice first
The part I rate most highly is the form, not the visuals. It asks for visit date, party size and preferred sitting before anything is sent, which is the information we used to chase by email. It has quietly removed the slowest step in our intake.
Gabriel BarringtonPrivate bookings lead, Turkish grill restaurant, Columbia, South CarolinaInquiry form and response workflow for restaurant reservationsMost of our visitors are on phones, so that is where I reviewed the new restaurant reservations pages. The essentials are within the first screen, with an obvious way to inquire. Staff can now text a single link mid-call instead of narrating the menu.
Manisha ShettyTable bookings administrator, Mexican cantina restaurant, Provo, UtahMobile navigation and page layout for restaurant reservations
Case files
Case studies for casual and family dining
Real projects, written up with the restaurant: where it started, what we built and what changed.
- Mexican cantina restaurant, Tulsa, OklahomaRestaurant reservations within easy reach on a phoneFor restaurant reservations, phone visitors complete the journey the site always intended.Read the case study
- Turkish grill restaurant, Tacoma, WashingtonOne guide, read before we talk about restaurant reservationsWhen it comes to restaurant reservations, one link replaces the patchwork of emails.Read the case study
- Family-owned Italian restaurant, Savannah, GeorgiaFrom printout to page: restaurant reservations made legibleDay to day with restaurant reservations, staff reply with a precise link instead of an attachment.Read the case study
Weighing this against another option?
We publish ten comparisons, including GoHighLevel funnels and its website builder, WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, GoDaddy, a freelancer and a marketing agency, each one saying plainly when the other choice fits a restaurant better than we do. We work with casual and family restaurants across the United States, including Texas, California, Florida, New York and Illinois.
Read the comparisonsQuestions from casual and family restaurants
Can you add a separate kids menu page?
Yes. A kids menu is its own page or its own clearly labelled section, whichever fits how your menu is actually organized. It is included in every plan and updated the same way the main menu is, as part of your revisions.
How do holiday hours get updated?
You send us the change, by email or through your client portal, and we turn it around within 2 to 5 working days. Holiday closures and seasonal hours are exactly the kind of small, frequent change the weekly detail updates exist for.
Can weekly specials actually live on the site instead of only on social media?
Yes, and we recommend it. A specials page or section on the site is searchable and always current, unlike a photo buried in a social feed. We update it as part of your plan whenever the specials change.
We are moving off a page builder site we are afraid to touch. What happens to our content?
We migrate the pages, menu items and photos worth keeping and rebuild them as a custom-coded site, then set up redirects from your old page addresses so nothing you have already been found for goes missing. Nobody on your staff needs to touch code afterward; changes go through your client portal instead.
See it built for casual and family dining
A live walk-through, on your screen, of the site you would get.
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