Restaurant Websites for UK Businesses

Independent restaurants, curry houses, cafés and small groups across the UK that are tired of handing a third of every delivery order to the aggregators and want a direct booking-and-ordering channel they own. Equally suited to new openings needing a launch site and established places outgrowing a tired template.

UK restaurants run on thin margins, which is why a 14–30% aggregator commission is existential rather than annoying. The shift since 2023 is clear: operators want to claw back direct orders, especially British-Indian restaurants whose regulars order the same dishes weekly and would happily order direct. Stripe UK is the default for cards, with Apple Pay and Google Pay for fast mobile checkout, all under Strong Customer Authentication rules. VAT must be applied correctly — eat-in and hot takeaway are standard-rated while some cold items differ — and records need to export cleanly into Xero or QuickBooks for Making Tax Digital. On search, "restaurant near me" plus a cuisine modifier drives the majority of new covers, so schema, Google Business Profile and city-cuisine landing pages move the needle far more than blogging. Against UK restaurant SaaS that charges per month forever, a one-time owned site usually pays for itself within a year.