Can we update the menu ourselves when specials change?

Yes. We can set it up so you edit the menu directly, or you can text us the changes and we'll update it same day. Friday fish special? New seasonal cocktail list? It should be live on the site before the dinner rush, not three weeks later.

We use Toast for online ordering — does that work with a custom site?

It does. We integrate your Toast ordering directly into the site so customers can order without leaving your domain. Same goes for Square Online, ChowNow, or whatever system you're on. The ordering experience lives on your site, not on some third-party page with someone else's branding.

Do we really need a full website if we have a good Yelp and Google page?

Yelp and Google Business Profile are important, but you don't control them. Reviews change, competitors show up on your own listing, and the platform decides what people see first. Your website is the only place online where you have complete control over what customers find.

What about photo galleries — we don't have professional food photos yet.

Decent phone photos work fine to start. Good lighting, clean plates, real food — that's enough. Professional photography is great if you can swing it, but don't let perfect be the enemy of getting something real up on the site. A photo of your actual burger beats no photo at all.

Can the site handle catering inquiries separately from regular reservations?

Absolutely. We build a separate catering page with its own form — event type, guest count, date, dietary needs. That keeps catering leads organized and out of your regular reservation flow. If catering is a big part of your business, it deserves its own space on the site.

Website Redesign · Tyler, TX

Tyler Restaurants: Your Website Should Bring People In, Not Turn Them Away

Name: East Texas Online
Address: Tyler, TX, 75701, US
Telephone: +1-903-400-5555
Price range: $$

You're spending real money on food costs, staffing, and rent — and your website is quietly sending people to eat somewhere else. It's not dramatic. Nobody calls to tell you they went to another spot because your menu was a blurry PDF. It just happens, over and over, and you never see it.

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The Menu Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Somebody's trying to pick a place for dinner near the Caldwell Zoo area. They pull up your site. Your menu is a scanned PDF that takes forever to open on a phone — if it opens at all. Pinch to zoom, scroll sideways, squint at the appetizer section. They close it and pick somewhere with a menu they can actually read.

This isn't a technology problem. It's a lost-sale problem. And it happens constantly. Your menu should be text on a page, readable on any screen, no downloading required. That's the bare minimum. The fact that so many Tyler restaurants still haven't fixed this is honestly baffling.

Hours, Location, Phone — In That Order

People looking up a restaurant want three things immediately: are you open, where are you, and can they call. If those three pieces of information aren't visible the second your site loads on a phone — without scrolling — something is wrong.

We see restaurant sites where the hours are on a separate "About" page. Where the address is text instead of a tappable Google Maps link. Where the phone number is an image, so you can't click to call. All of these are problems that cost you covers every single week. And they're all fixable in a day.

What We Build for Restaurants

A restaurant site doesn't need to be complicated. It needs to be fast, readable on a phone, and give people what they're looking for without making them work for it.

Menu on a real page — organized by category, easy to scan, looks good on every screen. Photos of your actual food and your actual dining room. Not generic. Real. Hours and location on every page, not just the homepage. Integration with whatever online ordering or reservation system you use — Toast, Square, OpenTable, Resy, or something else.

A simple restaurant site — three to five pages, menu, photos, contact — starts at $300 and takes just a few days. If you want something bigger with online ordering integration, a catering page, an events section, and multiple locations, that starts at $1,500.

You own the site when it's done. Not us, not a platform — you. If you want to switch web hosts, add a new page, or hand it off to someone else someday, go ahead. Hosting and maintenance starts at $50 a month if you want us keeping things updated and running smooth.

Your Food Is Good. Your Website Should Be Too.

Tyler's restaurant scene has gotten genuinely interesting. There's good food in this town — from the spots on Troup Highway to places tucked into shopping centers you'd never expect. The competition is real. And when someone's deciding between your place and the one down the street, your website is often the tiebreaker.

A dated site with a broken menu link doesn't match the effort you put into your kitchen. That gap between how good your restaurant actually is and how it looks online — that's the thing costing you tables.