Websites for Restaurants and Cafés in Kenya
A menu people can read on a phone, a table they can book, and orders that do not all go through a delivery app.
From KES 20,000 + VAT · prices exclude 16% VAT
Before anyone tries a new restaurant, they check three things on their phone: the menu, the prices and whether you are open. A blurry photo of a laminated menu, or a PDF that takes a minute to load, is often where that visit ends.
Delivery apps bring orders, but they take a large cut and they own the relationship with your customer. A simple ordering page on your own site, paid by M-Pesa, lets your regulars order from you directly.
We build restaurant and café websites that load fast, show the food honestly and put the next step — book, order or find you — one tap away.
Why restaurants and cafés need a website that works
Four things a good site does for restaurants and cafés that a Facebook page and a phone number cannot.
The menu decides the visit
A readable menu with prices is the main reason people look you up. Make it easy and more of them come in.
Orders without the app commission
A regular who orders through your site costs you a payment fee, not an app's cut.
Bigger bookings
Private dining, birthdays and office lunches come from a clear events page, not from walk-ins.
No more locked-door disappointments
Hours that match on your site and on Google mean nobody arrives to find you closed.
What a good restaurant or café website does
The things that separate a site that brings in work from one that just exists. This is how we build for restaurants and cafés.
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Treat the menu as the main page
Text, not images. Sections, prices, portion notes, vegetarian and allergen markers. It is the page most visitors came for, so it is one tap from the home page.
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Photograph your own food
Your dishes, in your light, plated as they are served. Diners recognise stock photos, and they notice when the plate does not match.
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Keep hours and location identical everywhere
The website, Google Maps and any app listings should show the same hours and the same pin. Mismatches cost visits and hurt local ranking.
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Make private hire bookable
Birthdays, corporate lunches and private dining are worth more than a single table. A page with capacity, set menus and a request form captures them.
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Keep it light
Restaurants are searched on the move. Small images, no autoplay video, and the phone number and directions in the first screen.
Get a website built for your restaurant or café
Send your brief in about a minute — we reply with a priced quote within one business day. Or send us the details and we will come back with a fixed-scope proposal.
What restaurants and cafés usually come to us with
Problems that come up again and again for restaurants and cafés, and what we would actually do about each one.
“Our menu is a PDF nobody opens”
A proper menu page in text, organised by section, with prices and dietary notes. It loads instantly, Google can read it, and your staff can change a price in a minute.
More on web development“Customers turn up when we are closed”
Opening hours kept in one place and matched to your Google Business Profile, including public holidays and seasonal changes.
More on seo“Delivery-app commission eats our margin”
A direct ordering page for pickup and your own delivery radius, paid by M-Pesa STK push, with each order sent straight to the kitchen phone.
More on system development“Reservations get lost in WhatsApp”
A reservation form with date, time and party size that confirms automatically and gives you one list for the day.
More on system developmentYour restaurant or café website, done right
The first list comes with every build. The second is what we commonly add for restaurants and cafés; each is priced in your quote, so nothing turns up as a surprise halfway through.
In every build
- Responsive, mobile-first design
- SSL certificate (HTTPS)
- Basic on-page SEO: titles, descriptions and clean structure
- Contact form, WhatsApp button and click-to-call
- Google Analytics and Search Console set up
Commonly added for restaurants and cafés — priced in your quote
- Text menu with prices and dietary notes
- Table reservation form
- Direct ordering with M-Pesa
- Events and private hire page
- Google Business Profile setup
- Gallery of your real dishes
Get a free quote for your restaurant or café website
Answer a few questions about the project. We will price it properly and email you an itemised, fixed-scope quote in KES — VAT shown — within one business day.
Your brief
What happens next
- We read your brief and price it properly — no configurator guesswork.
- You get an itemised, fixed-scope quote in KES with VAT shown, within one business day.
- If something in it does not fit, we adjust the scope before you commit.
Free and no obligation. We reply within one business day.
Questions about restaurant or café websites
Yes. We can build a simple ordering page for pickup or delivery within your area, paid by M-Pesa. It is an add-on priced in your quote. Many restaurants keep delivery apps for reach and use their own page for regulars.
We recommend against it. A text menu loads faster on mobile data, Google can read it, and it is easier to update. If you have a designed print menu, we can offer it as a download as well.
Yes. A reservation form with date, time and party size is a common add-on. It can confirm automatically or wait for your approval.
A business website starts from KES 20,000 + 16% VAT. Ordering, M-Pesa payments and reservations are priced on top. The quote builder gives you an itemised figure.
For 'restaurant near me' searches your Google Business Profile matters as much as the website, and we set both up properly. Every site we build is SEO-ready, but rankings depend on competition and reviews. Nobody can honestly guarantee position one.
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Where we work
We build for restaurants and cafés across all 47 counties, remotely and on site around Nairobi.
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Send your brief in about a minute — we reply with a priced quote within one business day. Or talk to our team about something more bespoke.