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Restaurant Website Audit

Restaurants live and die on reservations and orders. If your menu is buried, your reservation widget is hidden, your delivery links are missing, and your mobile hero is slow, hungry visitors are tapping back to a competitor. We will audit yours in 48 hours.

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Quick answer: Onyxarro's free restaurant website audit covers cafes, takeaway, casual dining, fine dining, bars, gastropubs, food trucks with a permanent kitchen, and multi-location hospitality groups. It includes three deliverables: a written audit ranking every issue costing you reservations and orders (mobile menu viewability, reservation widget placement and flow, online ordering and delivery link visibility, opening hours clarity, location and parking trust, food gallery quality, review and rating proof, Google Business Profile consistency, events and group bookings path, CTA hierarchy, Core Web Vitals on mobile), a redesigned homepage preview deployed at a public URL, and a recommended Onyxarro package fit. Existing reservation platforms (ResDiary, OpenTable, SevenRooms, Resy, Now Book It) and ordering platforms (Mr Yum, me&u, Order Up!, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Menulog) stay untouched. All three arrive by email within 48 hours, free, no card, no calls. This is a website design service, not hospitality, food, legal, marketing, or revenue-outcome advice; honest framing only, no guaranteed booking, order, or revenue claims. Submit your restaurant URL on /audit; full service catalogue and pricing at /services; founder context at /about; concept demos at /concepts are concept projects, not paid client work; broader agency overview on the homepage.

Restaurants & Cafes

Your restaurant site should turn appetite into reservations and orders.

48-hour audit

Full audit + redesigned homepage preview, delivered in two days.

Zero risk

Free, no calls, no obligation. Yours to keep even if you never hire us.

The pain

Why restaurant sites lose the booking and the order.

Hospitality decisions are made on a phone, often while standing on a footpath, in under thirty seconds. A buried menu PDF, a reservation link that opens a clunky third-party page, a delivery button that is missing, and a hero photo that loads at 4 MB on cellular all push the booking to the restaurant two doors down. Premium kitchens earn premium prices, and the site should match the room inside.

What we audit

What we audit on a restaurant website.

Six checkpoints across menu, reservations, orders, and local trust.

Menu clarity on mobile

Is the menu viewable on a phone without a PDF, pinching, or a download? Are sections grouped, scannable, and priced honestly?

Reservation and booking path

Where is the reservation CTA? Does the widget (ResDiary, OpenTable, SevenRooms, Resy, Now Book It) feel premium or generic? How many taps from homepage to confirmed time slot?

Online ordering and delivery

Are Mr Yum, me&u, Order Up!, Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Menulog links visible, current, and on the right channel for your margin? Or are they buried two scrolls down?

Hours, location and parking

Opening hours by day, real address, map, parking notes, public transport, and accessibility. The signals that turn a near-miss into a walk-in.

Gallery, reviews and proof

Real food photography (not stock or AI), permission-based gallery, real reviews surfaced honestly, and Google Business Profile consistency. Trust signals diners actually scan.

Events, functions and groups

Is the path to group bookings, private dining, catering, and functions visible? Or is the highest-margin enquiry hidden behind a generic contact form?

Why a restaurant site is different

Hospitality needs a different conversion flow than a generic small business site.

A generic small business site optimises for a single contact form. A restaurant site has to hold three parallel conversion events: a reservation, an order, and a walk-in. The homepage decides which event lands first, the menu page sells the room, and the hours and location surfaces close the walk-in. Less template, more behaviour. That is what we build toward.

Common restaurant website leaks

From generic to appetite, in 48 hours.

Before

Generic, slow, unclear restaurant site

  • Menu as a 4 MB PDF download
  • Reservation link buried under About
  • Delivery links missing or out of date
  • Stock food photography
  • Hours hidden, no map, no parking note
After

Premium, fast, conversion-focused

  • Live HTML menu, scannable, mobile-first
  • Reservation CTA in hero plus sticky
  • Order links visible by margin priority
  • Real permission-based food photography
  • Hours, map, parking, transport all clear
What you receive

Six deliverables. Zero commitment.

Real work, built for restaurants and cafes, by us. Yours to keep.

Deliverable 1

Website trust review

Where your site builds, or breaks, trust at first impression for a hungry visitor on mobile.

Deliverable 2

Reservation and order flow review

The path a diner walks from homepage to confirmed booking or completed order, mapped end to end.

Deliverable 3

CTA review

Primary CTA placement, copy, frequency, and friction across the site for both reservations and orders.

Deliverable 4

Competitor comparison

A side-by-side benchmark against two direct competitors in your suburb and price tier.

Deliverable 5

Homepage redesign direction

A redesigned homepage preview, deployed at a public URL, yours to keep even if you never hire us.

Deliverable 6

Recommended package

Which Onyxarro package fits (Launch, Growth, or Authority) and what it would deliver for a restaurant or hospitality group.

Frequently asked questions

The questions restaurant owners and hospitality groups ask most before booking the audit.

What is a restaurant website audit?

A restaurant website audit is a structured review of the pages and flows that decide whether a hungry visitor turns into a reservation, an online order, or a walk-in. Onyxarro audits the homepage, the menu page, the reservation path, the online ordering and delivery integrations, the hours and location surfaces, the gallery, the review proof, and the mobile speed. It is a website design review, not hospitality, food, legal, or marketing advice.

What does Onyxarro check on a restaurant website?

Six checkpoints: menu clarity and viewability on mobile, reservation and booking path, online ordering and delivery link visibility, opening hours and location trust, food gallery and review proof, and Core Web Vitals plus local search readiness. Each is graded against the patterns that actually move bookings and orders for restaurants and cafes.

Can you audit online ordering and reservation flows?

Yes. We audit the path from homepage to reservation widget (ResDiary, OpenTable, SevenRooms, Resy, NoshNosh, Now Book It, or similar) and from homepage to online ordering platform (Mr Yum, me&u, Order Up!, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Menulog, deep links to the operator's preferred channel). Your existing booking and ordering platforms stay. We redesign the surfaces around them so diners actually reach the conversion flow.

Do you guarantee more bookings?

No. Restaurant website performance depends on local demand, seating capacity, menu, price point, reviews, weather, traffic quality, speed, reservation flow, ordering flow, tracking, and follow-up. A clearer, faster site usually helps, sometimes meaningfully, but no honest agency can promise a fixed booking, order, or revenue uplift before seeing real analytics, real local demand, and real reservation availability.

How long does the audit take?

48 hours from submission. You send your URL on /audit, we send the written audit, a redesigned homepage preview deployed at a public URL, and a recommended Onyxarro package by email. No call required, no obligation, yours to keep even if you never hire us.

What happens after the audit?

Reply to the audit email if you want to proceed. We will send a fixed quote (Launch NZ$4,997 for a single-location restaurant or cafe, Growth NZ$7,997 for multi-location groups, Authority NZ$12,997 for chains or hospitality groups with deeper sales pages) and a 48-hour build timeline. 50% deposit starts the build. No retainers, no surprise invoices, no monthly hosting creep. Pricing is in NZD and excludes any third-party platform subscription you already pay (reservations, ordering, payments).

See what your restaurant website could become.

Send your URL. In 48 hours we will deliver a free audit, a redesigned homepage preview, and a recommended package. No calls. No pressure.