Serving Hamilton, Burlington, Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown & Grimsby
Overview
Restaurant website design in Hamilton, for kitchens that live on repeat guests and want the website to pull its weight too. Most projects land between $1,499 and $4,999, quoted flat before work begins, with a typical timeline of two to five weeks. If your project is bigger than that, we will say so on the first call rather than after a deposit.
The guest decides in about ten seconds, usually on a phone
Someone deciding where to eat is not browsing. They search, open two or three results, and pick the one that shows the food, the hours and a way to book or order without a fight. A PDF menu that will not open on a phone loses the table.
So the site is built around that moment: the menu in real HTML, hours that are actually right, a booking or ordering link at the top of every page, reviews pulled from Google, and photographs of your own plates.
For the slower decisions — a birthday, a work lunch, catering for forty — the same site carries private dining, catering and enquiry forms.
Who it fits
Independent kitchens, cafés and bakeries, takeaway counters, bars, and small groups whose current site is a Facebook page or a template with a PDF menu.
Who it does not
Chains with head-office marketing, or anyone wanting a custom point-of-sale or delivery platform built from scratch — different project, different budget.
What you own
Your domain, your hosting, your content, your bookings — a WordPress site your manager can update without calling us.
Process
How a restaurant website project actually runs
Five stages, two to five weeks for most kitchens: a call and menu map, gathering food photography and your current menus, design, build and booking wiring, then launch and handover. Service comes first, so we work around prep, closing days and whatever your week allows.
01
Call & menu map
The dishes you want to sell more of, the covers you want to fill, your catchment, and who is beating you on Google. We leave with a page map and a flat quote.
02
Menus, photos & reviews
We take your current menus into real HTML, gather food photography, and connect your Google reviews so they show on the site automatically.
03
Design
Home page and the menu first, on your phone screen before desktop — because that is where your guests are. Two rounds of revisions included.
04
Build & lead wiring
WordPress build, booking or ordering links wired in, menus in real HTML so they can be edited in a minute, images compressed, speed tuned.
05
Launch & handover
We migrate, test booking and ordering on a real phone, connect analytics and Google Business Profile, then show your manager how to change a menu in a minute.
Why choose Back9
What a restaurant site needs that a generic template misses
Restaurant website design has rules a generic template never learned: menus that change weekly, calorie rules for larger groups, accessibility law that PDF menus fail, reviews, and a guest deciding on a phone outside your door. These are the things we handle differently, every time.
Built for the “near me” search
Hours, address and a booking link in the header, tap-to-call on every page, and your Google Business Profile kept in step with the site so the two never disagree.
Menus that stay legal and legible
PDF menus fail on phones and fail the AODA accessibility standard, so we build menus in real HTML that you can edit in a minute. If you run twenty or more locations in Ontario, the menu-labelling requirements govern what your menus must show, and we build them so calorie and contextual information sits beside each item rather than being bolted on afterwards.
Found the way guests actually search
People search “brunch Stoney Creek”, not “culinary experiences”. A page per location and per occasion, written the way guests actually search.
Reviews doing the selling
Your Google reviews pulled onto the site automatically, and a post-visit review ask — because a wall of recent reviews fills more tables than any tagline we could write.
Food photography that loads fast
Your plates, compressed and organised by menu section — appetising at full size, still fast on mobile data in your car park.
Fast on a phone, one-handed
Your guest is standing outside deciding between you and the place next door. Big tap targets, hours and booking always reachable, nothing between them and a table.
Photography
Photography that looks like your food
Guests can smell a stock photo. Your plates, your room, your team — that is what convinces someone to book a table. The photographs on this page are illustrative; on your site every one of them would be your own food, shot in your own room, which is the only version a guest will ever believe.
A shot list your team can shoot on a phone — every dish, every change of menu.
The room and the team, shot once, used everywhere — site, Google profile, delivery apps.
Guest and event photos used with permission noted, so nothing bites you later.
Compression and lazy loading, so a 40-photo gallery doesn't sink the site on mobile data.
Work to date
What we can show you, and what we won't
We do not publish cover counts or revenue figures for clients, and we are not going to invent any to fill this section. What we will do is walk you through recent builds live on a call and explain the reasoning behind every decision on the page.
Straight answers on the call
Ask us what worked, what we would do differently, and which projects we have turned down. We would rather lose a project than oversell one.
Book a walkthrough →Pricing
Three tiers, quoted flat
Restaurant website design, priced flat: $1,499 for a single location, $2,999 once you want ordering and event pages, and $4,999 for multi-location groups. Prices are in Canadian dollars, before HST. The number you approve is the number you pay — scope changes get quoted separately before anyone starts work, and hosting and care plans stay optional.
Single Location
$1,499
CAD, one time · 2–3 weeks
For one room — a credible site with a real menu that makes the phone ring and fills tables.
Up to 5 pages, including services and gallery
Tap-to-call, booking link and enquiry form
Menus in real HTML, editable in a minute
Google reviews shown on the site
Google Business Profile setup
Training and handover
Most shops start here
Restaurant + Ordering
$2,999
CAD, one time · 3–4 weeks
For an established shop that wants to own the searches across its whole service radius.
Everything in Single Location
Up to 12 pages, including events and catering
A page per menu — brunch, dinner, drinks
Booking and order tracking, so you know what the site earns
Post-visit review ask, CASL-compliant
Local SEO for Hamilton and surrounding areas
Enquiries routed to your inbox or booking system
Multi-Location Group
$4,999
CAD, one time · 4–6 weeks
For groups running several rooms that need location pages, catering and deeper content.
Everything in Restaurant + Ordering
Unlimited menu and location pages
Careers page wired for hiring kitchen and floor staff
Private dining & catering pages that close big bookings
Copywriting for every service page
Three months of post-launch SEO and support
Care plans covering hosting, backups, plugin updates and monitoring are optional, priced monthly and cancellable any time. You keep the site either way.
| Compare | Single Location | Restaurant + Ordering | Multi-Location Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $1,499 | $2,999 | $4,999 |
| Timeline | 2–3 weeks | 3–4 weeks | 4–6 weeks |
| Pages | Up to 5 | Up to 12 | Unlimited |
| Location pages | — | 4 | Unlimited |
| Call tracking | — | Yes | Yes |
| Booking and enquiry form | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Orders into your own system | — | Yes | Yes |
| Careers page for hiring staff | — | — | Yes |
FAQ
Questions restaurant owners ask us first
Six questions owners actually ask on the first call — about being busy already, delivery apps, ranking guarantees, photography, direct booking and contracts. If yours is not here, ask it on the call. We would rather answer a hard question early than have it surface mid-build, when it costs both of us time.
We are already busy. Why do I need a site?
Because the guest who has not been in yet is checking you on a phone right now, and a dead Facebook page or a PDF menu sends them next door. A site with a current menu, real hours and recent reviews stops you losing the covers your kitchen has already earned.
Will this replace UberEats or DoorDash?
Different job. Delivery apps rent you a customer and keep a cut of every order forever. Your own site takes direct bookings and orders at no commission, and every dollar of ranking you build is yours. Many kitchens run both for a while — then quietly push regulars to ordering direct.
Can you guarantee I rank first for “restaurants Hamilton”?
No, and no one honest can — those results are controlled by Google and weighted heavily to reviews and proximity. What we control is the technical foundation, the location and menu pages, your Google Business Profile and the local signals. Anyone promising a position is selling something they cannot deliver.
I don’t have professional food photos. Is that a problem?
No — phone photos of your actual plates beat stock, because they are what the guest will be served. We give you a simple shot list, clean up what you send, and the site launches with real food. A half-day shoot of the room and signature dishes can be added any time.
Can guests book or order directly from the site?
Usually, yes. We wire in OpenTable, Resy, Tock or a simple enquiry form for bookings, and Square, Toast or your own ordering page for takeaway. We confirm what your system supports before quoting, not after.
Am I locked into a contract after launch?
No. You own the domain, the hosting account, the site and every lead in it. Care plans are month to month and cancellable, and if you would rather maintain it yourself we hand it over and train you to do exactly that.
Get started
Get your free restaurant website quote
Tell us your room, your menus and what is not working now. Within one business day we will reply with a restaurant website design plan, a fixed price, and a timeline — no pressure, no retainer, and no obligation to proceed.
- [email protected]
- +1 (437) 876-9915
- Serving Hamilton & surrounding area, ON
Flat quotes — no hourly surprises
Every booking and order link tested on a real phone before launch
You own the site, the domain and every booking
Back9 Digital · Hamilton, Ontario · Websites for restaurants, cafés, bakeries, bars and catering across Hamilton, Burlington, Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown and Grimsby.