Do restaurants still need a website?
Most Chennai diners find restaurants through Google Maps, Swiggy, Zomato and Instagram. So a fair question is whether a website is worth paying for at all.
It is, for one main reason: it is the only place you control completely. Delivery apps take a commission on every order and show your competitors next to you. Your own website can take table bookings, catering enquiries and direct orders without a commission, and it gives Google a trusted source for your menu, hours and location.
What a restaurant website actually needs
Keep it focused on what a hungry visitor wants in the first ten seconds: the menu, the location, opening hours, a phone or WhatsApp button and photos of the food and the space.
Beyond that, useful extras include table reservations, a catering or party-order enquiry form, a direct ordering link, reviews, and pages for each branch if you have more than one outlet.
What drives the cost
Website development at ByteeCraft Studios starts at ₹12,000. A restaurant website moves above that starting point when it needs more pages (for example a page per branch), an easy way for your staff to update the menu and prices themselves, a reservation or ordering system, or professional photography and content writing.
Domain and hosting are separate, usually small, yearly costs. Payment gateways charge a fee per transaction if you take payments online. A good quote lists all of these separately.
Menus: the part most restaurant websites get wrong
Many restaurant sites upload the menu as a PDF or a photo. These are hard to read on a phone, Google cannot read them properly, and they are usually out of date.
A menu built as a real web page loads fast on mobile, can be searched by Google for dish names, and can be updated by your team in a minute when a price changes.
Working with Google Maps, Swiggy and Zomato
Your website should support these platforms, not compete with them. Link your Google Business Profile to the website, keep the name, address and phone exactly the same everywhere, and add links to your delivery-app pages for customers who prefer them.
Over time, encourage regular customers to order or book directly through your website or WhatsApp, where you keep the full value of the order.
Connecting the website to billing
If you use ByteCraft POS for billing, your menu items, categories and prices already live in one place. We can plan the website menu around the same structure so the two stay consistent when prices change.
Getting a quote
Tell us how many branches you have, whether you want reservations or direct ordering, and who will supply photos and menu text. We will send a written quote with everything itemised before any work begins.