No-downtime switchover
The new site goes live and is approved before your domain is ever pointed at it.
A restaurant website redesign that carries your domain and customers forward, without a gap
A restaurant website redesign should never mean a period where your menu is unreachable or your ordering link stops working, and our build process is structured specifically to avoid that gap.
What it costs
- Plans$117 a month
- Build fee$647, after launch
- Live in7 days
- Revisions5 a month
- Domain and hostingIncluded
Who this is for
Is this page describing your kitchen?
This page is for an owner who already has a website and already knows it is the problem. Something works, and you are reasonably afraid of losing it: a page that ranks, an address on your packaging, a booking link a regular has saved. A redesign is as much about protecting that as it is about the new design.
How the switchover actually works
We build the new site on our own infrastructure while your current site keeps running, so nothing changes for a customer visiting today. Only once the new site is live, reviewed and approved does your domain get pointed at it, which for most restaurants takes minutes and happens outside service hours if timing matters to you.
What we do with your existing content
Menu descriptions, prices, photos of dishes and any content worth keeping from your current site are reviewed during onboarding and rebuilt into the new site's structure. An item that no longer sells, or a delivery zone you no longer cover, gets flagged rather than carried forward automatically.
Protecting search visibility you have already earned
If your current site ranks for anything, we set up redirects from old page addresses to their new equivalents so that search visibility is not lost in the switch. This matters most for a restaurant that has been online for years and has pages already earning traffic, even if the site itself looks dated.
What is included
What you actually get, line by line
All of it inside the monthly plan. Nothing below is quoted separately or billed by the hour.
- A review of what exists: what ranks, what converts, what is worth keeping
- Redirects from every old page address to its new equivalent
- A rebuild of the menu, ordering and location structure rather than a reskin of the old one
- The new site built and reviewed before your domain is pointed at it, so there is no gap
- Content and photography carried across, resized and restructured properly
- A design system so the site can grow later without another redesign
What is not included
The things we will not pretend to do
- Keeping a platform or plugin you are unhappy with, which usually means keeping the problem.
- Recovering content that only exists inside a platform nobody has access to. Get us what you can.
- Guaranteeing rankings will rise. Redirects protect what exists; growth comes from the ongoing work.
If one of these is the thing you actually need, say so on the call. We would rather point you somewhere else than sell you a plan that does not fit.
The signs
Four things that mean it is time
- The site was built for a business that has since changed.
- You avoid sending people to your own website.
- Nobody knows who has the login, or which agency built it.
- It looks acceptable on a laptop and falls apart on a phone.
What lands in the build
Content review and rebuild
Existing menu, prices and photos reviewed and carried forward where they still apply.
Redirects for existing pages
Old page addresses redirected to protect search visibility already earned.
Your ordering link and contact details unchanged
Contact details stay the same unless you ask us to change them.
A faster, custom-coded result
Replacing page-builder weight with a 90 or higher PageSpeed build.
How the work is done
Four steps, and what you do at each one
- 1
Onboarding form and one call
About fifteen minutes of form, then a call where we fill the gaps and agree the launch date. The launch clock starts at the call, not at purchase.
- 2
Structure before decoration
Menu sections, modifiers, zones, locations and the ordering path are agreed first, because that is what the design has to serve.
- 3
Build and review
Every page custom coded and checked against the 90+ PageSpeed target on mobile and desktop. You see it and say what is wrong before anyone else does.
- 4
Launch, then the weekly work
Live in 7 days on Order Starter. After that: articles, revisions and technical checks every week, and the build fee invoiced only once you have approved the site.
What drives the work
The price is fixed. This is what changes the effort
You pay the plan price whatever your kitchen looks like. These are the things that decide how much of the first two weeks we spend on structure, and they are worth thinking about before the onboarding call.
- How many existing pages need mapping to a new address
- Whether content is extractable or has to be rebuilt from a screenshot
- How much of the old structure was worth keeping in the first place
Plans start at $117 a month with a $647 one-time build fee invoiced only after launch. See all three plans.
From a kitchen like yours
One operator, one specific change
The brief I gave them was simple: demonstrate, do not proclaim. The claims are still there, but now they come with the evidence attached. Visitors arrive having already seen how we operate, which shortens the first conversation.
Teresa KirkwoodCollections desk supervisor, Mexican street food takeawayChandler, ArizonaReference content and service presentation for takeaway ordering
Plans
Three ways to run this
Order Engine
Everything, plus the AI Engine
- Live in 10 days
- 2 articles a week
- AI receptionist, chat and messaging
Full Kitchen
Everything, plus the Content Engine
- Live in 15 days
- 3 articles a week
- AI receptionist, chat and messaging
- Social posts and reels
Guarantees
The promises that are actually in the contract
Every line below is in the terms and conditions, not just on this page. If a claim only exists in marketing copy, it is not a guarantee.
90+ PageSpeed, in writing
We guarantee a Google PageSpeed score of 90+ on mobile and desktop for pages we build and host. If a page falls below it because of our work, we fix it at no charge.
Local rankings inside 3 to 5 months
The terms commit to your site starting to rank for local searches in your area within 3 to 5 months of launch. If it has not, we continue the search work at no additional charge until it does.
The build fee is invoiced after you approve the site
The $647 one-time build fee is not taken at signup. It is invoiced once your site is live and you have said you are happy with it, which is why it is not refundable afterwards.
No hourly billing, ever
5 revisions a month are included and a revision has no size limit. After the fifth, each is a flat $20. Everything is completed within 2 to 5 working days.
The domain and your content stay yours
Your domain is registered in your name, and if you leave you tell us where to send it and we transfer it at no charge. On cancellation we provide an export of your content and articles within 14 days.
Cancel with 2 business days notice
By email, before your next invoice date. No lock-in period, no exit fee, no clause that keeps billing you for a site you asked us to stop.
The limits are stated too: neither guarantee covers changes you or a third party make, content published against our advice, or rankings for terms outside your area. Neither entitles you to a refund. The remedy is the corrective work, done at our cost.
Be fair about it
Doing this another way
There are cheaper ways to have a website and better ways to spend money than on us, depending on your kitchen. We wrote ten comparisons that say so out loud, including the cases where you should stay exactly where you are.
- WordPressPowerful and open, but you own the maintenance, the plugins and the 8pm emergency.
- WixQuick and cheap to start. Everything after launch day is still your job.
- GoHighLevel builderSame outcome possible, different question: who maintains it after launch week?
- A freelancerOften a better build than a template. The question is who answers in month six.
- A marketing agencyAgencies create demand. The site converts it. Fix the destination first.
- SquarespaceThe prettiest builder. Still leaves the ordering, the structure and the weekly work to you.
Read all ten comparisons
Every page names what the other option is genuinely better at, and how the two can work together.
Questions about restaurant website redesign
Will our site go offline during the redesign?
No. The new site is built and reviewed while your current site keeps running, and the domain is only switched once the new site is live and approved.
What happens to our existing search rankings?
We set up redirects from your old page addresses to their new equivalents, which is the standard way to preserve search visibility through a redesign.
Can you migrate content from a Wix, Squarespace or delivery app site builder?
Yes. We review whatever content exists on your current platform during onboarding and rebuild the parts worth keeping into the new site.
Do we lose our current domain or email?
No. Your domain and email addresses stay exactly as they are; only where the domain points changes, and only once the new site is ready.
Will a redesign cost us our search rankings?
Not if the redirects are done properly, which is standard practice on every migration we run. The bigger risk is doing nothing: a slow, stale site loses ground quietly every month.
How long will the old site stay up?
Until you approve the new one. We build alongside, review with you, and only then point the domain, so customers never land on a half-finished site.
Can you keep our old design?
We can keep your brand, and usually should. The structure underneath is rebuilt around ordering, because that is normally why the old site was not working.
What do you need from our old developer?
Ideally a list of the pages that matter and access to the domain. If nobody is reachable, we can work from the live site and your domain registrar, which is more common than you would think.
Case studies that used this
Real kitchens where this work was part of the fix, and what changed for them.
- Family-run fish and chip shop Knoxville, Tennessee
Setting takeaway ordering free from the PDF
With takeaway ordering, staff answer questions with a link to the exact section instead of an attachment.
Handover25 working daysRead the case study - Mexican street food takeaway Naperville, Illinois
Retiring the duplicate takeaway ordering pages
Day to day with takeaway ordering, there is now a home for the approved wording and a routine for keeping it true.
Handover10 working daysRead the case study - Kebab and grill takeaway Burlington, Vermont
Keeping old takeaway ordering links alive after a rebuild
For takeaway ordering, old links resolve to relevant current pages rather than errors.
Handover20 working daysRead the case study
See it built for your business
A live walk-through of the site you would get, in about 30 minutes. Plans from $117 a month, the $647 build fee invoiced only after launch, domain and hosting included.
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