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For restaurants
Most restaurant sites publish the menu as a PDF, hide the hours in a footer image, and route reservations through a widget that asks for an account. Small fixes, big lift on bookings and walk-ins.
Where these sites lose customers
PDFs do not load fast on mobile, do not work for screen readers, and Google cannot read them. A real HTML menu with sections, prices, and dietary tags ranks for dish-name searches and saves the customer a download on their phone.
If your hours are baked into a graphic, Google cannot pull them, voice assistants cannot read them, and the customer searching 'is X open right now' does not get an answer. Plain text hours, with a structured-data block, fix it.
Some reservation systems push the customer through account creation before they pick a time. A reservation flow that takes name, phone, party size, and time without a signup converts roughly three times as well.
Under the hood
The mechanics that decide whether a site earns calls or just sits there.
01Top of the map
‘Roofer near me’ wins your next customer. We build to rank in the local map pack.
78%of local-service searches happen on a phone.
02On the phone first
Most find you on a phone. The whole site has to feel right at arm’s length.
03Loads before they leave
Half of mobile visitors leave a slow site before it loads.
Page speed scoremobile
98/100
04Yours to keep
No retainers, no system you can’t log into. When we’re done, you have everything.
How we’d approach a rebuild
A restaurant rebuild rebuilds the menu as a real HTML page (PDF stays as a download for guests who want one), writes hours as plain text with structured data, and either replaces the reservation widget or hides its account-creation step. Photos are your own, not stock, and they load fast on mobile.
Note
Every rebuild starts with a free written audit. We send back a plain-English breakdown of what is costing you calls today, what we would change in the rebuild, and a fixed price. No deck, no sales call.
Restaurants questions
Don’t see yours? Ask us directly.
We work with restaurants across Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Montréal, and Edmonton, plus smaller markets across Canada and the US. Tell us where you are on the contact page and the audit comes back the same way.
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