Why most restaurant websites are broken
Most North Bay restaurant sites are slow Wix templates with a PDF menu, broken hours, and a contact form that goes nowhere. They look fine on a laptop and lose customers on a phone. Diners deciding where to eat tonight don't read your About page, they want hours, the menu, and how to reserve. If your site doesn't deliver all three in under two seconds on a phone, they're already on Yelp tapping the next listing.
I build for the way people actually decide where to eat: fast mobile load, menu items structured as schema so Google shows them in search results, OpenTable or Resy embeds (or custom reservations if those don't fit), today's hours visible without scrolling, and one-tap call/directions. Then I optimize the Google Business Profile so the local pack picks you up, which is where 60% of restaurant clicks actually happen.
What I build for restaurants
Reservations that work
OpenTable, Resy, Tock, or SevenRooms embedded cleanly, or a custom reservation flow if those don't fit your service style. Confirmation emails, no-show flagging, party-size limits, special-occasion notes.
Menu with schema.org markup
Every dish marked up with Menu schema so Google can show items, prices, and dietary tags directly in search results. PDF menus die here, your menu is real, structured, indexable content.
Google Business Profile setup
Categories, hours (including holiday hours), service options (dine-in / takeout / delivery), photo strategy, post calendar, and a review-request flow. The local pack is where most local restaurant clicks happen.
Online ordering integration
Toast, Square, Olo, or ChowNow, embedded into your site so the order flow feels like your brand, not a third-party portal that bounces customers to a different domain.
Private events + gift cards
Lead-capture forms for buyouts and large parties (often the most profitable bookings), plus a clean gift card purchase flow that doesn't make customers create an account.
Press + accolades schema
If you've been written up, North Bay Bohemian, Press Democrat, Sonoma Magazine, SF Chronicle, I mark those up so they show in rich results and feed AI search engine recommendations.
North Bay restaurants I serve
I'm based in Santa Rosa and serve businesses across:
- Santa Rosa Railroad Square, Montgomery Village, and 4th Street restaurants
- Healdsburg Plaza fine dining and destination restaurants
- Petaluma downtown and Lakeville Highway operators
- Sebastopol The Barlow and West County restaurants
- Windsor Town Green and family restaurants
- Cotati and Rohnert Park casual + neighborhood restaurants
In-person meetings are easy when they help. Otherwise I work remotely with a daily-updated staging link you can show your team.
What it costs
- Single-location restaurant marketing site: $1,500 to $4,500. Menu, reservations, hours, gift cards, events.
- Multi-location group: $4,000 to $8,000. Shared brand + per-location landing pages with location schema.
- + Custom online ordering / POS integration: add $3,000 to $8,000 if Toast/Square/Olo embeds don't fit.
- Monthly care: $79 to $299/mo. Hosting, menu updates (within scope), event posting, SEO, GEO and AEO monitoring.
Every quote is fixed-price. See full pricing detail at my pricing page.
Restaurant web design FAQs
Can I embed OpenTable / Resy / Tock?
Yes, I embed any of them cleanly so the reservation flow feels native to your site. Customers don't bounce to an external page, which keeps them in your brand and improves conversion.
Do you handle online ordering integration?
Yes. I integrate Toast, Square for Restaurants, Olo, ChowNow, and most major restaurant POS-attached ordering systems. I don't build the ordering logic myself, those tools handle it correctly. My job is to make the customer experience seamless.
Will Google show my menu in search results?
If I mark it up with Menu schema (and I do, on every restaurant site I build), Google can show menu items, prices, and dietary tags directly in search results and the local pack. PDF menus can't do this.
How do I update the menu when items change?
Two options: (1) I update for you under a monthly care plan, usually same-day; or (2) I ship a simple admin where your manager updates items, prices, and 86'd items from a phone. Most restaurants pick option 1, menus don't change that often.
What about Yelp? Does that matter?
Yes, but less than Google Business Profile. Your GBP drives the local pack, which gets way more clicks than Yelp does. I optimize both, but GBP is the bigger lever for most North Bay restaurants.
Can I get into Google's restaurant carousels for "best restaurants in [city]"?
The carousels are driven by review velocity, GBP completeness, and schema. I handle the schema and GBP. The reviews are on you, but I'll set up a one-tap review-request flow that your staff can send post-visit.