Restaurants · Cafés · Bars · Cloud kitchens

Restaurant websites that fill tables, not portfolios.

A hungry person on a phone gives you about four seconds. Auren builds restaurant and café sites that answer where, when, what and how much inside those four seconds — then gets them to book.

What makes a restaurant website actually work?

A restaurant website has one job: convert someone who is already hungry into someone who has booked, ordered or set off walking. Everything else is decoration.

In practice that means four things have to be visible without scrolling on a phone: what kind of food this is, where it is, whether it is open now, and how to book. Auren builds restaurant and café websites around exactly that hierarchy — a fast visual hero that establishes the cuisine and the room, a menu that loads instantly instead of opening a PDF, live opening hours, one-tap call and directions, and a reservation flow that takes under fifteen seconds. Menus are built as real, crawlable HTML so your dishes appear in Google, not locked inside an image. Sites are built mobile-first because that is where nearly every restaurant search happens.

Built for
Restaurants & cafés
Preview time
48 hours
Upfront cost
₹0
Menu format
Crawlable HTML

The three things that lose you covers

A PDF menu. It is the single most common mistake in restaurant web design. A PDF takes several seconds to open on mobile data, forces pinch-zoom, and is effectively invisible to Google — so when someone searches for a dish you actually serve, you do not come up. Auren builds menus as structured HTML: instant to load, readable at any size, and indexed dish by dish.

A slow hero. Restaurant sites love a full-screen video. Done carelessly it pushes Largest Contentful Paint past four seconds and people leave before the first frame renders. Auren uses compressed, lazy-loaded media and measures every build against Core Web Vitals.

A buried phone number. If booking takes more than two taps, a meaningful share of people give up and open the next result. Call, directions and reserve should be reachable from anywhere on the page.

Getting found on Google Maps

For restaurants, most discovery does not start on a website. It starts in the Google map pack — the three results with stars that appear above everything else. Ranking there depends heavily on your Google Business Profile and on whether your name, address and phone number match exactly across your site, your Maps listing and every directory that mentions you.

Auren builds every restaurant site with Restaurant schema markup — cuisine, price range, opening hours, menu URL, geo coordinates — so Google can connect the site to the listing with confidence. We also make sure your NAP block is identical everywhere it appears, which is unglamorous and one of the highest-return things you can fix.

If you also want to run ads or automate reservations and WhatsApp replies, that is covered under AI workflow automation.

What's in a restaurant build

Everything below is standard. No modules, no add-on pricing.

Instant HTML menu

Your dishes as real text Google can index, not a PDF nobody opens. Update prices any time at no cost.

One-tap reservations

Table booking wired to your existing system, or a lightweight form straight to WhatsApp or email.

Restaurant schema markup

Cuisine, hours, price range, geo and menu marked up so Google links your site to your Maps listing.

Click-to-call and directions

Persistent, thumb-reachable, always two taps or fewer from anywhere on the page.

Gallery that loads fast

Compressed and lazy-loaded so your food looks good without wrecking your load time.

Seasonal edits included

New menu, festival specials, changed hours, new photos — send them over, they get done.

How the process works

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A 30-minute call to understand your brand, your customers and what the site actually has to do. No deck, no pitch.

  2. 02

    We build it. For free.

    Within 48 hours you get a live staging URL with the real, working website on it. Not a Figma file, not a watermarked mockup — the actual site, on a real domain, on your phone.

  3. 03

    You decide

    If it works, you start the subscription and we point it at your domain. If it doesn't, you walk away and pay nothing. We carry the risk, not you.

  4. 04

    Unlimited edits, forever

    New photos, new sections, price changes, seasonal updates, SEO work. One flat monthly fee, month-to-month, cancel whenever. We're your design team, not a one-off vendor.

Restaurant website questions

How much does a restaurant website cost in India?

Auren charges nothing upfront. The complete restaurant website is built and put on a live URL within 48 hours, and you only start a flat monthly subscription if you decide to keep it. That fee covers hosting, your domain, unlimited menu and photo updates, and SEO work.

Can you put our menu on the site?

Yes, and it is built as real HTML rather than a PDF or an image. That means it loads instantly on mobile data and Google can index individual dishes, so you can appear in searches for the food you actually serve.

Can customers book a table through the site?

Yes. Auren integrates whatever reservation system you already use, or builds a lightweight booking form that sends enquiries directly to your WhatsApp or email if you don't use one.

Will the website help us show up on Google Maps?

The website supports it but doesn't replace it. Auren adds Restaurant schema markup and keeps your name, address and phone consistent, which strengthens the link between your site and your listing. You still need a properly filled-out Google Business Profile, and we'll tell you exactly what to fix there.

We're a cloud kitchen with no dine-in. Does this still apply?

Yes. The structure shifts — ordering links and delivery-platform integration lead instead of reservations and directions — but the build, the timeline and the pricing are identical.

How fast can we go live?

48 hours from the discovery call to a live staging URL. Once you approve it, pointing it at your own domain takes under a day.

See your restaurant's new site this week.

One call, 48 hours, a live link. If it doesn't make you want to eat there, you pay nothing.

Auren · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · @auren.online