--- title: "Café & coffee shop website design · Cider for Restaurants" description: "Café and coffee shop websites with the menu as text, today's hours and order-ahead one tap away. Free first draft, fixed price from $499, paid at launch." url: "https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/cafes" --- Website design for cafés and coffee shops # Café and coffee shop website design for *the morning rush* Most people open a café or coffee shop website to check three things fast: what's on the menu, whether you're open right now, and how to order ahead and skip the line. We design and build the site around those three. Nothing is due until you decide to launch, and for most cafés that means the Website launch, $499 once. [Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=launch_small) [See the work](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/work) - Free first draft - Fixed price from $499 - Pay only at launch We usually recommend the [Website launch](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants#prices): up to 5 pages, $499 once. ## What a café website needs The menu as real text, hours that are always right, and order-ahead and beans right at the top. - **The menu as text, not a photo of the board** Espresso drinks, tea, food, milk options and their upcharges on a real page that loads quickly on one bar of signal. Oat, soy and almond milk get named plainly (almond is a tree nut, and some guests need to know), and the pastry case carries the allergen notes you or your bakery give us. When the seasonal drink changes, it's a quick edit, and search engines can read every item. - **Order ahead from the first screen** A clear *Order ahead* button on the first screen and in a sticky bar on phones. It opens your own ordering page, so the ticket prints on the same tablet behind the bar as your walk-in orders, and the regular who orders at 7:40 every morning never has to look for it. - **Hours, including the odd ones** Weekday and weekend hours, early closes, holiday changes and when the kitchen stops making food, written as text on every page. Nobody should have to call to find out whether you're open at 3 p.m. on a Sunday, or whether breakfast sandwiches end at eleven. - **Beans, subscriptions and coffee for meetings** The roast of the week with its origin, process and tasting notes, bag sizes and grind options, and a button to wherever you already sell beans or subscriptions. If you send coffee boxes and pastry trays to offices, or supply other cafés wholesale, a page says what you offer, the lead time and how to ask. - **The room, the bar and the laptop rules** Photos of the space, the bar and the people behind it, with the story of the place and where your coffee comes from. Then the practical part, said plainly: Wi-Fi, outlets, laptop-free hours if you keep them, and whether calls are fine inside. Remote workers search for exactly this, and answering it online saves your baristas the same question at the counter. - **Found by people on the next block** Your name, address and phone written the same everywhere, page titles that name your neighborhood, and a home page light enough to load for someone deciding on the sidewalk between you and the chain across the street. ## Sample sites we've designed Sample sites for made-up businesses, designed to show what we do: open one on your phone and try it. On your site, booking and payment buttons open the tools you already use. - [Coffee shop and roastery Ember Coffee (opens in a new tab) Order ahead Roast of the week Loyalty card](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/work/ember-coffee) - [Neighbourhood bakery Harbor Street Bakery (opens in a new tab) Menu Cake orders Opening hours](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/work/harbor-bakery) [See all four of our restaurant sites](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/work) ## The pages a café site usually has - Home - Menu (coffee, tea, food and seasonal drinks) - Beans, subscriptions and wholesale - About the café, the team and sourcing - Visit us: hours, location and Wi-Fi ### Which plan fits Most cafés fit on a handful of pages: home, the menu, beans with subscriptions and wholesale, your story, and a visit page with hours and Wi-Fi. That's the **Website launch**: up to 5 pages for $499, paid once when you launch. ### What we link Your order-ahead and point of sale keep running the counter, and the site's buttons open them, along with your loyalty program, gift cards, bean subscriptions and reviews. We take no commission on your orders, and if you switch providers we update the link. - Square - Toast - Clover - Shopify - Google Business Profile ## What to get right - **A photo of the chalkboard as the menu** It's hard to read on a phone, invisible to search, and wrong the day oat milk changes price. A text menu stays readable, searchable and easy to change. - **Order-ahead buried in the footer** If someone has to hunt for the ordering link, they'll walk in and wait in line, or go to the café whose button they found first. It belongs at the top of the page and within a thumb's reach on a phone. - **Hours that disagree with Google** Many people check your Google listing first and your website second. When the two say different things they don't know which to trust, and sooner or later someone arrives at a locked door with their laptop bag. - **Slow video of latte art on the home page** It's lovely, and it loads slowly for the person standing outside on a weak signal. A good still photo and a fast page do more during the morning rush. ## How it works Three steps, and most of the work is ours. 1. 5 minutes **Tell us about your business** The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have. 2. 5 to 7 business days **Get your free first draft** Screenshots for computer and phone and a private preview link (2 to 3 business days with priority, overnight with rush). Ask for changes in plain words until it's right. 3. When you're ready **Approve, pay and launch** Pay the fixed launch fee only when you're happy. With the care plan, we put the site live on your domain and look after it; without it, we hand you the files to host yourself. ## Cafés and coffee shops: fixed prices One fee, paid once when you launch, from $499. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote. ### Website launch A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well. $499 one time, paid when you launch [Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=launch_small) - **Up to 5 pages** - 5 rounds of changes - Every page's words written for you - Designed around your photos and logo - Built to work beautifully on phones - Search-ready titles and descriptions - Hosted by us on the care plan, or yours to host Recommended ### Pro launch A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say. $999 one time, paid when you launch [Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=launch_pro) Everything in Website, plus: - **Up to 15 pages** - Unlimited rounds of changes - A senior designer on the project ### Signature launch A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right. $2,000 one time, paid when you launch [Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=launch_signature) Everything in Pro, plus: - **Up to 30 pages** - Unlimited rounds of changes - A senior design lead as your one contact - Logo design (worth $149) ### Custom Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features. Let's talk a fixed quote from our team [Get a custom quote](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=custom) Everything in Signature, plus: - **More than 30 pages** - Several locations or brands in one project - Special features, scoped with you - A fixed price agreed before you commit - **Free first draft** See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start. - **Fixed prices** No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first. - **Yours to keep** Once it's paid for, the site and its files are yours, and a domain we register is in your name. Let us host it, or take it anywhere. ## Questions about café websites **How much does a coffee shop website cost?** Most cafés choose the Website launch: $499 once for up to 5 pages, and nothing at all until you've seen the free draft with your own menu on it and want to go live. The launch fee doesn't cover hosting: that's the optional care plan, $49 a month or $490 a year, which also registers and renews your domain. Without a care plan we don't host the site; you get its files to put wherever you like. A roaster with wholesale, subscriptions and several locations may suit the Pro launch. [All our prices are public](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants#prices). **Can customers order ahead from my café website?** Yes, through the ordering system you already use. We put an Order ahead button where people look for it and link it to your Square, Toast, Clover or other ordering page, so orders reach the bar exactly as they do now. **Do I need a website if my coffee shop is on Instagram?** In most cases, yes. Instagram shows the mood, but it's slow at answering hours, menu and directions, and plenty of people search before they visit without ever opening the app. Keep posting the latte art there; the website is where someone new finds out you're open, what a cortado costs and where to park. **Can I sell coffee beans or subscriptions on my website?** Yes, by linking the shop or subscription service you already use, such as a Shopify shop or your point of sale's online ordering. We design the beans page, the roast notes and the buttons; payments stay with the provider you chose. **How do I keep the menu and seasonal drinks up to date?** Send us the change in plain words and we make it. The care plan includes 4 small edits a month, which covers most seasonal menu swaps and holiday hours. **Will my café show up when people search for coffee nearby?** The basics are built in: page titles that say coffee shop and name your neighborhood, your address and hours written so search engines can read them, and pages that load quickly on phones. Nobody can promise a place in the results, and local searches also lean on your Google listing; the Google Business Profile add-on keeps that current, and SEO & AEO care handles the ongoing search work. Updated October 12, 2026 ## More from Cider for Restaurants - [Bakery website design Today's bakes up front, pre-orders before the cutoff, and cake inquiries that arrive complete.](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/bakeries) - [Food truck website design This week's stops on the first screen, a menu that changes when you do, and catering inquiries that ask about power and parking.](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/food-trucks) - [Pizza shop website design An Order button that opens your own ordering, delivery zones in plain words, specials that match the register, and party trays.](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/pizzerias) - [Restaurant website design Restaurants, cafés, bakeries and bars: every kind of restaurant site we build, at Cider for Restaurants.](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants) ## Your café website: the first draft is free Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email [hello@ciderwebsites.com](mailto:hello@ciderwebsites.com). [Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/restaurants/start?plan=launch_small) You pay only when you launch.