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Restaurant website: online menu, reservations and example site structures

Guests look you up on their phone, check the menu, glance at the hours and decide. This article covers what a restaurant or café site needs to show in those few seconds.

In short

• The first screen of a restaurant website should show the address, phone number, opening hours and a way to the menu; guests mostly look on their phone and in a hurry.
• An online menu should be published as text rather than a PDF or photo; a text menu reads well on phones, can be found in search and is updated in one place when prices change.
• Türkiye's Price Tag Regulation requires food and drink businesses to present their price list where customers can see it; since an October 2025 amendment the list may also be offered by QR code, but it must be shown in print if a customer asks.
• In Heyşirket, a restaurant site, the price list section, opening hours and a table booking form are on the free Starter plan.
• A categorised food menu, online booking with date and time selection, guest reviews and an Instagram feed are in the Professional plan; there is no separate QR menu tool in the panel, you turn your menu page's address into a QR code.

Someone looking for a place for dinner checks three or four restaurants on the map. On each they look for the same things: menu, prices, is it open, where is it, can I book. The place that gives this information fastest often wins. That's why a restaurant website should be simple, fast and up to date.

In this article we cover what a restaurant or café site needs, how to publish an online menu, how to take bookings and example site structures for different kinds of venues. At the end we state plainly which Heyşirket plan you can do each of these on.

Part 1 · Basics What should a restaurant website include?

Most visitors to a restaurant site look on their phone, on the move or just before deciding. So the important information belongs on the first screen, with long introductions further down.

The address, phone and hours should match your Google Business Profile exactly. We explain opening a profile and picking the right category in how to create a Google Business Profile.

Part 2 · Menu How do you publish an online menu?

The most common mistake is putting the menu up as a PDF or photo. A PDF has to be zoomed and scrolled on a phone, a photo is hard to read, and neither is read well by Google. When prices change, it has to be redesigned. An online menu should be published as text.

1. Split it into categories: Starters, mains, desserts, drinks. Let them show as tabs on phones.
2. Four pieces of information per item: Name, a two-line description or ingredients, price, and portion size if needed.
3. Mark preferences: Labels such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and spicy help guests find what they're looking for quickly.
4. Hide dishes that run out: If you hide instead of deleting, you bring them back with one click when the season comes round.
5. Update prices in one place: The menu on the site, on the table and behind the QR code should show the same price.

Part 3 · Reservations How do you take reservations on the site?

For a small café, a phone number may be enough. For a restaurant that fills up in the evenings, a booking form cuts phone traffic considerably. Date, time, party size, name and phone are enough; add a notes box for things like birthdays or a high chair.

Confirming the request is your job. When a request arrives, call or message the guest back, and leave a clear note under the form such as "we'll get back to you to confirm your booking". That way guests don't assume the table is guaranteed the moment they submit.

A separate page for group dinners, birthdays and company events also helps. Say how many people you can host, whether there's a set menu and how many days' notice you need; requests then arrive much clearer.

Part 4 · Examples Restaurant website examples: three different structures

Not every venue needs the same site. The three example structures below are based on the restaurant themes in Heyşirket; pick the one closest to your venue and adapt it.

What the examples share: the menu and contact details always come first, long story texts always last. Make sure the photos are really of your venue; stock photos disappoint guests.

Part 5 · Visibility How does a restaurant site get found in search?

Most restaurant searches are local: "breakfast near me", "fish restaurant kadıköy", "café open now". In these searches the business card on the map and the site work together. The card links to your site, and if the site gives the same information as the card, it's easier for Google to understand your business correctly.

• Describe dishes in words: If phrases such as "homemade mantı" or "wood-fired pide" appear as text in the menu, your page can match when people search for those dishes.
• Mention your neighbourhood naturally: Write your district and well-known nearby places once in the about and contact text; don't stuff the word into every paragraph.
• Keep the hours the same everywhere: If the site says 23:00 and the map says 22:00, the guest ends up at a closed door and writes a bad review.
• Make it load fast: Upload photos large but compressed; a menu page that loads slowly on a phone gets abandoned.
• Reply to reviews: Short, polite replies to reviews on the map show that the business cares.

In Heyşirket, your business profile generates the site's local business structured data. The local SEO screen in the Professional plan checks whether the name, address and phone are consistent everywhere on the site; details on the local SEO page. You manage your Google Business Profile yourself; the panel doesn't post to it automatically.

Part 6 · Setup How do you build a restaurant website in Heyşirket?

In Heyşirket every company has one company panel; website, email and pre-accounting live in the same place. When you choose the "Restaurant and café" type while setting up, the panel suggests features that suit it.

Step by step: a restaurant site

1. Open your company panel

   On the start for free page, enter your venue's name and choose Restaurant and café as the site type.

2. Fill in the business profile

   Enter the name, address, phone, map location and opening hours once on the Business profile screen. The header, footer, map and forms use this information; the Opening hours section highlights today and shows whether you're open or closed right now.

3. Add the menu

   On the Starter plan you can add the Price list section to the home page and publish a simple menu by entering group, name, description and price. On the Professional plan, install the Food menu feature: categories become tabs on the site, each item gets a price, an image and New, Chef's pick, Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free and Spicy labels, and dishes that run out are hidden without deleting them.

4. Turn on reservations

   Choose Table reservation in a page's Form on this page field; requests land on the Requests screen. An online booking form with date and time selection is in the Professional plan.

5. Connect reviews and Instagram

   On the Professional plan, put the review collection link and QR code at the till; reviews appear on the site after you approve them. With the Instagram feed, your latest posts show on the site too.

Step-by-step guide in the panel: Help › Feature store. For details on collecting reviews see collecting customer reviews, and for the date and time form see the online appointment system page.

Part 7 · Plans Which feature is in which plan?

The Professional plan costs 699.99 TL/month or 6,999.90 TL/year (VAT included) and includes pre-accounting too, so you keep expense, cash and bank records in the same panel. All plans are on the pricing page.

Restaurant website checklist

• The first screen shows menu and booking buttons, phone and address.
• The menu is live as text, not a PDF; prices match the menu on the table.
• Opening hours are current; changes for holidays and special days are noted.
• Address, phone and hours match the Google Business Profile exactly.
• The booking form says clearly how confirmation works.
• The QR code on the table opens the current menu page on the site.
• Photos are of your own venue and dishes.
• The site was opened on a phone and a test booking was sent.

Bring your menu to your site Open the categories, enter dishes with their prices and update them in one place when prices change. Go to the menu

If you don't have a site yet, see what comes ready on the website page, or start for free.

Author: Heyşirket Editorial Team