Restaurant website design
We rebuilt the site of Vidikovac Zmajevac, a past client above Sarajevo, to show what yours gets: a walk through the window into the view, the whole menu as searchable text and a Reserve button on every page. It is a redesign concept, not a live restaurant site.
01Redesign concept
Open it and scroll: you walk across the dining room and through the window into the view. Then search the menu and watch the clock change what to order. Nothing on it sends anything.
A restaurant and café bar on a hill above Sarajevo, with its real name, photos and menu, rebuilt the way we build client sites: written, designed and hand-coded, in English and Bosnian.
Vidikovac Zmajevac is a past client, and this is a redesign concept, not a live restaurant site. Phone, booking and forms are not connected. It shows the work, not results.
02Before and after
The same restaurant, the same photos and the same menu, built again from the first line.
| What changed | Old site | Redesign concept |
|---|---|---|
| Menu | Three flipbooks on another website, 37 pages of images | Real text on one page, with search, in two languages |
| Prices and notes | Inside the images, so phone users had to pinch and zoom | Readable at any size, with notes like "Bosnian coffee until 16:00" next to the item |
| Reservations | One phone number | A short table request, and a Reserve button that stays on screen on phones |
| Languages | A second English copy of the same long page | English and Bosnian versions of the home, menu, photos and find us pages |
The concept never went live, so nothing here is a result. It shows what changed in the build.
03What works
Six things, each with the number behind it and what the redesign does about it. Sources are at the bottom of this page.
77%
of US adults said they are likely to visit a restaurant's website before they dine in or order out.
Source: MGH survey of 1,101 US adults, 2019 (a marketing agency)
The first screen answers the basics: what the place looks like, when it is open and how to book.
68%
of them said a restaurant's website has put them off visiting, and 62% said one has put them off ordering.
Put off visiting68%
Put off ordering62%
Source: MGH survey of 1,101 US adults, 2019 (a marketing agency)
Three plain links and a design made for the place, so nothing feels like an old template.
36%
said a hard-to-read menu stopped them ordering, and 36% said the same about a site that did not work on a phone.
Source: MGH survey of 1,101 US adults, 2019 (a marketing agency)
The whole menu is real text. Type kajmak or trout and the list narrows as you go.
65%
of diners in a Toast survey go straight to the restaurant's website to book, and 44% get frustrated or stop trying when booking is hard.
Source: Toast reservation survey (sells restaurant software)
A Reserve button sits on every page and stays on screen on phones. The table request is one short form.
58%
of customers prefer a restaurant's own app or website for delivery. DoorDash launched its US plans at 15%, 25% and 30% commission.
Source: NCR Voyix 2025 report via Restaurant Dive (sells restaurant technology), and Restaurant Dive, 2021
If you take orders online, the site links straight to your own ordering page, with no marketplace in between.
4 of 10
of the top-grossing US independent restaurants show opening hours on the homepage.
Source: Our read of 10 websites, 5 Nov 2026
Hours sit in the first screen, and the menu says what runs until when, like breakfast until 12:00.
04Checked
We opened the websites of the ten top-grossing independent restaurants in the US. All ten link a reservation and show the menu as text. Six of them still keep the opening hours off the homepage.
10 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes, a Reserve button on every page
10 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes, in two languages
8 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes, one tap on a live site
7 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes
4 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes, in the first screen
0 of 10 top restaurants
Our example: Yes, by dish or ingredient
05Short answer
See what each package includes, or how much a website costs. The $295 plan adds local SEO, reviews and an AI phone assistant.
06Sources
Page date: 29 Aug 2019A marketing agency
Page date: not shownSells restaurant software
Page date: 30 Jan 2025NCR Voyix sells restaurant technology
Page date: 27 Apr 2021
Page date: not shown
Every page opened on 5 Nov 2026. The MGH numbers are from 2019, and two of the surveys come from companies that sell to restaurants, as noted.
07Questions
Yes, it is a past client in Sarajevo. This site is a redesign concept we made to show what a restaurant website from us looks like. It never went live, and it is not the restaurant's own website. The menu, prices and hours come from its old site and 2024 menus, so they may be out of date. Phone, booking and forms on the concept are not connected.
No. Your menu goes on the page as real text, so it reads well on a phone and Google can read every dish. If you also want a PDF for printing, we link it next to the menu.
We can. Small edits to text, images and prices are part of the $99 Site Care plan, so a new dish or price is one message away.
Yes. The Reserve button can open the booking tool you already use, or send a simple table request to your email if you do not use one.
Yes. The Vidikovac concept has its home, menu, photos and find us pages in English and Bosnian, one tap apart. Tell us your languages before we start, because each one adds pages to write and check.
We build your website for $0: our Business or Premium package, depending on the project, worth up to $2,990. The website is yours to keep, with the design, the code and the files. The monthly plan is the service around it: $99 a month for Site Care (hosting, SSL, changes, backups and a short monthly report), or $295 a month for Local Growth, which adds local SEO, review requests and an AI phone assistant. The first month of the plan is free, then there is a 12-month minimum. If you want to leave before the 12 months are up, you pay either the months that are left or the website's price minus what you have paid so far, whichever is less, and you take your files with you. After the 12 months you can stop at any time and host the site yourself.
50% to start and 50% at launch, plus the optional care plan at $49 a month for hosting, backups, small edits, uptime and form checks and a monthly report.
Launch in about 1 week, Business in 2 to 3 weeks, Premium in 4 to 6 weeks, counted from the day we have everything we need. Custom work gets a date in writing before you pay.
Yes. You own the site, the code and the domain, and we hand over the files whenever you ask.
Websites have unlimited revisions within the agreed pages and features. We keep working on it with you until you are 100% happy.
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