A menu locked in a PDF costs the average restaurant dozens of walk-ins a week — 61% of mobile diners leave a site they can't read. — Fix my menu — free quote →
WordPress for Restaurants
Diners are picking the restaurant whose menu loads first. Right now that's not you.
It's 6:40 on a Friday. Someone three blocks away is standing on the sidewalk, hungry, thumbing "food near me" into their phone. They tap the first place with a readable menu, visible hours, and a tappable address. That was a table for four you never knew you lost — and it happens dozens of times a night at every restaurant with a menu trapped in a PDF.
Here's why it happens: a hungry person on a phone gives you about 3 seconds. If your menu is a PDF they have to pinch-zoom, if your hours aren't front-and-center, if there's no map to tap or way to order, they bounce to the competitor whose info loaded clean. Google sees that bounce and quietly ranks you lower in the local pack, so fewer people find you tomorrow. It's a doom loop — and it has nothing to do with your food.
We build WordPress restaurant sites where the menu is real text (not a PDF image), hours and location are marked up so Google reads them, the address opens Maps in one tap, and online ordering or reservations sit one thumb-tap from the hero. Every site loads in under 1.8 seconds on a phone in a parking lot on LTE — because that's exactly where your next 40 covers are deciding.
- Performance98
- SEO100
- Accessibility100
- 200+ small-business sites built since 2017
- Under 1.8s load on mobile — measured, not promised
- Menus in real text, not PDFs — Google can read them
- You own everything: domain, hosting, code, menu
How hungry people actually find your restaurant
None of it is about how good your food is. It's about whether a phone, on LTE, in a parking lot, can read your menu and hours in under 3 seconds — and whether Google trusts you enough to show you first.
The PDF menu is the silent killer
A menu saved as a PDF is a flat image to Google — it can't read the dishes, prices, or dietary tags inside it, so none of that content helps you rank for "gluten-free tacos near me" or "birria ramen [your city]." Worse, on a phone that PDF opens in a clumsy viewer, forces pinch-zoom, and about 61% of mobile visitors leave a site they can't read comfortably. We build menus as native, mobile-first web pages: real HTML text, sections, prices, and allergen tags Google indexes and diners scan in seconds.
Your Google Business Profile is your real front door
For local restaurant search, most of your traffic starts in Google Maps and the local pack, not your homepage. Google decides who shows up there by cross-checking your name, address, phone, and hours across the web — and it trusts you more when your website carries the same details in structured form. We sync your site's NAP and hours to your Google Business Profile and mark them up so the two reinforce each other instead of contradicting each other, which is the single most common reason a good restaurant ranks below a worse one.
Schema tells Google your hours, price, and rating
Schema markup is a small block of code that labels your data so Google understands it — "this is opening hours," "this is a menu," "this is a 4.8-star rating from 214 reviews." With Restaurant and Menu schema in place, Google can show your hours, price range, and star rating directly in the search result before anyone even clicks. That rich result takes up more space, looks more trustworthy, and pulls a meaningfully higher share of taps than a plain blue link. We wire this into every restaurant site at launch.
Ordering and reservations belong on your site, not an app's
Third-party ordering apps take 20–30% of every ticket — on a $40 order that's up to $12 gone, on a restaurant doing $30k a month in delivery that's real payroll. They also own the customer: the app keeps the email, the reorder, the relationship. We build ordering and reservations into your own WordPress site with WooCommerce or a booking integration, so the customer is yours, the data is yours, and you keep the whole ticket minus card fees.
Speed on a phone in a parking lot is the whole game
Your customers aren't on office fiber — they're on LTE in a car, walking a strip, or standing in your doorway deciding. On that connection, a heavy image-slider homepage that scores fine on your laptop can take 5+ seconds to load, and Google's own data shows every extra second past 3 drops conversions by around 20%. We compress every food photo to WebP, defer what isn't needed for first paint, and host on managed infrastructure so your menu is on-screen in under 1.8 seconds when it counts.
One number, one map, one tap
The three things a hungry diner wants are the menu, the hours, and how to get there — and every extra tap between them and those answers costs you covers. We put a click-to-call phone number, a tap-to-open Google Maps address, and today's hours (that update automatically for holidays) in the header of every page, so no matter where someone lands they're one thumb-tap from ordering, booking, or driving over.
What we build into every restaurant site
Every plan is built on custom WordPress — never a bloated template — so your menu is fast, indexable, and yours to edit.
Mobile menu in real text
Your full menu as fast, scannable web pages with sections, prices, photos, and allergen/vegan tags — indexable by Google, editable by you, never a PDF.
Google Maps embed + click-to-call
A tap-to-navigate map and a click-to-call number in the header of every page. Zero friction between a hungry visitor and your door.
Restaurant & Menu schema
Structured markup for hours, price range, cuisine, and rating so Google can show rich results — and rank you above competitors who skipped it.
Online ordering or reservations
WooCommerce pickup/delivery or a booking widget built into your own site — you keep the ticket instead of handing 20–30% to a delivery app.
Google Business Profile sync
Your name, address, phone, and hours matched exactly across site and profile so the local pack trusts you and ranks you higher.
Under-1.8s mobile speed
WebP food photography, deferred scripts, managed hosting. Fast where it matters: a phone on LTE in your parking lot.
Events, specials & catering pages
Update tonight's special, post a live-music calendar, or take catering inquiries — all editable by you in minutes, no developer needed.
Review capture built in
Post-visit prompts that route happy diners to your Google reviews — the ranking signal that decides who wins the local pack.
- ✓Fixed price — no scope creep, ever
- ✓You own everything — domain, hosting, code
- ✓You approve before we build — see the design first
Restaurants we've fixed
Real problems, the exact build, and the numbers that changed. More on our portfolio.
Taquería · Austin, TX
Family taquería drowning in delivery-app fees
The symptom: A 3-location taquería was doing $34k/month in delivery but bleeding 28% to third-party apps and had a menu only viewable as a blurry PDF.
What we built: We built a WordPress site with a text-based mobile menu, WooCommerce pickup + delivery ordering, and Restaurant schema, then synced all three Google profiles.
The result: Direct online orders replaced 41% of app volume in 90 days, saving roughly $3,900/month in commissions, and the site loads in 1.4s on mobile.
Coffee & brunch café · Portland, OR
Neighborhood café invisible for 'near me'
The symptom: A brunch café ranked on page 3 for 'brunch near me' despite a two-block-away audience, because their Wix site had no schema and mismatched hours.
What we built: We rebuilt on WordPress with corrected NAP, Menu + Opening Hours schema, a Maps embed, and compressed WebP food photos.
The result: They moved into the local 3-pack within 7 weeks, and Saturday walk-ins attributed to 'found you on Google' rose 34% over the next quarter.
Food truck · Nashville, TN
Food truck losing lunch crowds to a stale schedule
The symptom: A BBQ truck's fans never knew where it was parked; the old site's location was a static line of text the owner forgot to update.
What we built: We built a self-serve WordPress site with a live 'where we are today' location + hours block the owner updates from their phone in 15 seconds.
The result: Lunch-rush covers rose an average of 22 per day, and the owner stopped fielding 30+ 'where are you?' DMs a week.
Cocktail bar & small plates · Denver, CO
Cocktail bar with a menu no phone could read
The symptom: A cocktail bar's seasonal menu lived in a 6MB PDF that took 9 seconds to open on mobile — most visitors bounced before it loaded.
What we built: We converted the menu to a fast text page with photos, added OpenTable reservations to the hero, and cut the homepage to 1.6s on mobile.
The result: Bounce rate on the menu page dropped from 71% to 29%, and online reservations grew 47% in the first two months post-launch.
Antrais Tech vs. DIY vs. a marketplace freelancer
The differences that actually decide whether a restaurant site brings you covers.
| Antrais Tech | DIY Wix / Squarespace | Fiverr Freelancer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menu Google can actually read | ✓ Real text menu, indexed | Often a PDF or image | Whatever's fastest to hand off |
| Restaurant & Menu schema | ✓ Built in at launch | Rarely, not automatic | Usually skipped |
| Mobile load time | ✓ Under 1.8 seconds | 3–6s with heavy templates | Unpredictable |
| Online ordering commission | ✓ 0% — you keep the ticket | Add-on, extra fees | Not typically set up |
| Who owns it after launch | ✓ You own everything | Platform locks you in | Freelancer often vanishes |
| Fixed price, no scope creep | ✓ Yes — quoted upfront | Monthly forever | Change = new invoice |
| 30-day post-launch support | ✓ Included | Help docs only | Rarely |
How we build your restaurant site
Menu & goals call
We learn your cuisine, your busiest daypart, whether you need ordering or reservations, and what a 'win' looks like — more covers, more catering, fewer app fees.
Mockup before we build
You see the exact design — hero, menu layout, ordering flow — before a single line of code. Nothing gets built until you approve it. Every project, no exceptions.
Build in 14–21 days
We build the menu as real text, wire up schema, embed Maps, connect ordering or reservations, and compress every food photo to WebP for sub-1.8s load.
Launch, sync & support
We match your Google Business Profile, submit your sitemap, and hand you a site you can edit yourself — plus 30 days of support to change specials, hours, and prices.
Fixed-price restaurant websites
No hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Add a logo for $99, or keep your menu current with maintenance from $29/mo. Need a full ordering store? See eCommerce & WooCommerce.
Starter Site
- ✓5 pages — home, menu, about, hours/location, contact
- ✓Text-based mobile menu (never a PDF)
- ✓Google Maps embed + click-to-call header
- ✓Restaurant & Opening Hours schema
- ✓Delivered in 14 business days
Business Site
- ✓10 pages incl. catering, events, specials, gallery
- ✓Online reservations or a simple ordering link
- ✓Full menu with sections, photos & allergen tags
- ✓Google Business Profile sync + review capture
- ✓Delivered in 21 business days
eCommerce Ordering
- ✓WooCommerce pickup & delivery ordering
- ✓Keep 100% of the ticket — no 20–30% app fee
- ✓Menu items, modifiers, scheduling & payments
- ✓Customer data stays yours, forever
- ✓Delivered in ~30 business days
What restaurant owners say
“Our menu was a PDF nobody could read on a phone and 'near me' searches never found us → they rebuilt it in WordPress as a text menu with hours and menu schema → we hit the Google 3-pack in 6 weeks and Friday covers are up 31%. Felt like they'd actually worked a dinner rush.”
“We were handing 27% of every delivery order to an app → they built WooCommerce ordering right into our site → in 90 days direct orders covered 44% of delivery and we're keeping about $3,100 a month we used to lose. They set the whole thing up and trained my manager in an afternoon.”
“A Fiverr guy built our first site then vanished when a plugin broke the reservations → Antrais Tech rebuilt on a clean custom WordPress theme with OpenTable in the hero → reservations grew 38% and the site loads in 1.5 seconds now. I finally have someone who picks up the phone.”
“Nobody could find where our truck was parked each day → they gave us a self-serve 'today's location' block I update from my phone in 15 seconds → lunch covers are up about 22 a day and my DMs finally went quiet. Simple, fast, and it just works.”
“Our Wix site scored fine on my laptop but took 6 seconds on a phone and diners bounced → they moved us to WordPress, compressed every food photo to WebP and cut it to 1.6 seconds → menu-page bounce dropped from 68% to 30%. Worth every dollar and then some.”
Get your free restaurant website quote
Tell us your cuisine and your busiest daypart. We'll send a fixed price and an honest read on what's costing you covers — within 24 hours, from a real person.
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