When someone searches "best pizza near me," does your restaurant show up?
People don't drive around looking for somewhere to eat anymore. They search, they scroll, they pick. If your restaurant isn't online with a real website, you're invisible to everyone who's hungry and looking.
Get My Free Quote →A Facebook page isn't a website
A lot of restaurant owners figure their Facebook page or Instagram is enough. It's not — and here's why. Facebook decides who sees your posts. Their algorithm shows your content to a fraction of your followers, and that fraction keeps shrinking unless you pay to boost. You're building on rented land.
When a customer searches Google for "Italian restaurant Carnegie" or "best wings in Mt. Lebanon," Facebook pages rarely show up in the top results. Google wants to send people to real websites with menus, hours, and location info — not social media feeds full of check-ins and birthday posts.
A website is the one thing you control completely. Your menu, your hours, your photos, your story — all in one place that Google can actually read, index, and show to hungry people in your neighborhood.
What customers look for on a restaurant website
Restaurant websites don't need to be complicated. But they do need to answer three questions immediately: what's on the menu, when are you open, and how do I get there. If someone has to dig for that information, they'll just pick a different place.
Every restaurant site I build includes:
- Your full menu — easy to read on a phone, no PDF downloads required
- Hours and location with an embedded Google Map
- Click-to-call for reservations or takeout orders
- Photos of your food and your space — not generic stock images
- Links to your ordering platform if you use DoorDash, Uber Eats, or your own system
- Mobile-first design — over 70% of restaurant searches happen on phones
- Fast loading — under 1 second, so customers aren't waiting on a spinning wheel while they're deciding where to eat
- SEO targeting your neighborhood — "pizza in Dormont" not just "pizza in Pittsburgh"
See a restaurant site I built
Primo's Pizza — a concept project showing what a fast, clean restaurant site looks like.
View the Demo →Third-party platforms eat your margins
DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub charge 15-30% per order. For a restaurant running on thin margins, that's the difference between profit and breaking even. Those platforms also own the customer relationship — they have the data, the reviews, and the ability to promote your competitors right next to you.
A website doesn't replace delivery apps, but it gives you a direct channel. Customers who find you through Google and order directly — by calling, walking in, or using your own ordering system — are customers you keep 100% of the revenue from. Over time, that direct traffic compounds.
Your website is also the only place where you control the narrative. On Yelp, one bad review sits next to your name forever. On your site, you lead with your best photos, your story, and what makes your food worth the trip.
$499 setup + $99/month. One week. Your menu online for good.
I build restaurant websites for $499 setup + $99/month — a founding rate for the first 5 Pittsburgh businesses. Hosting, maintenance, and 1 update per month included. Your site goes live within 7–10 business days and you own every line of code.
I'm based in Dormont and I've eaten at half the restaurants in the South Hills. I know the neighborhoods, I know what people search for, and I build sites that target those specific searches — "best tacos in Brentwood," "breakfast near Castle Shannon," "pizza delivery Bethel Park."
Every site is hand-coded from scratch. That means it loads instantly, works perfectly on phones, and doesn't depend on a platform that can raise its prices or change its terms whenever it wants. Your website is yours.