Restaurant and bar websites that take bookings

Should a restaurant in Spain rely on booking platforms, or take bookings on its own website?

Own the front door. Booking platforms can help new guests find you, but if every booking comes through a marketplace, you pay for each one and the platform sits between you and your guests. Your own website should answer the questions people ask before they book, such as the menu, the hours, where to park, and whether there is a terrace, in the languages your guests speak, and then take the booking directly, through a booking system you choose, with the guest's details kept by you.

Atelier Sawyer builds websites and booking sites for independent restaurants, bars, chiringuitos, cafés, and hospitality experiences in Spain. Every site is built to be found: each page is rendered on the server, so Google and AI search tools can read every word, in every language.

Does this sound familiar?

• Your website was built years ago, and you are slightly embarrassed to send people to it.
• The menu online is not the menu on the table, or it is a photo of the menu.
• Your site speaks one language, and half your guests speak another.
• Guests ring or WhatsApp to ask questions your website should answer.
• Most of your bookings come through a platform that charges you for each one.
• Changing the opening hours for the winter means emailing someone and waiting a week.
• You sell tours, events, or experiences, and taking payment is a mess of messages and bank transfers.

What you get

A website, from €1,800

• Up to about eight pages, written for you, in English and Spanish, and in your own language too, if it is neither: the menu, the story, opening hours, how to find you, private hire, and the questions guests ask
• Built to be found: search basics set up in every language, and pages rendered so Google and AI tools can read them
• The legal notice, privacy policy, and cookie consent every Spanish business website needs, set up with your own text or your lawyer's; the site does not go live without them
• A contact form, and your existing booking system linked in properly
• Designed around your venue, and built to work on a phone first, because that is where most guests will see it
• Live in four to six weeks from sign-off

Photography is not included, because the best photographs are of your real dishes and your real room. Book a content day for €595, or supply your own. Your own language comes with one condition: you check the translation, because you know it best. Further languages, such as German, Dutch, or French, are quoted, and each is checked by a native speaker I bring in.

Booking and payments, quoted

If you sell tours, experiences, events, or tables that need a deposit, I can build booking and payment into the site itself, the way I did for Donkey Dreamland. Every one is different, so it is quoted per project.

An AI assistant for your guests

An assistant on your website that answers guests' questions at any hour, in their own language: opening times, the menu, parking, private hire, and whether there is a terrace. It works from your own information, which I keep up to date, and it hands anything it cannot answer to your team.

It says plainly that it is an AI. It never gives the final word on allergens: it points to your allergen information and asks guests with allergies to confirm with your team. And it never confirms a booking unless it is connected to your booking system.

Set-up from €375, then €49 a month for updates, monitoring, and running costs within a fair-use limit. Set-up includes the line your privacy notice needs.

Built by an operator

Most web designers know websites. I know what a visitor wants to find at eight o'clock on a Friday in August, what a front-of-house team needs from a booking, and what an owner needs to see at the end of the month. The site is built around that.

After launch: care plans, or take it with you

Before launch, you choose what happens next.

Care plans run monthly, with no long contract. If you leave later, you keep everything: the site, the content, and the domain. A structured handover, €225 with 30 days' notice, moves it to new hosting, with documentation and a handover call. Changes outside Care Plus are €75 an hour, minimum one hour, and quoted before any work starts. A seasonal change of hours or menu counts as a change.

What it costs

Websites from €1,800, plus IVA. Booking and payment systems quoted per project. Care €49 a month; Care Plus €95 a month, with an hour of changes included.

You get a fixed quote before anything starts. No hourly billing on the build, and no surprises. Half is paid when the project starts, and the balance at launch.

Prices are shown without IVA, which is added at 21%. If your business is registered for IVA, you can normally deduct it on your return.

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This is not right for everyone

• If you need a large online shop, or a site for a multi-site group with menus and booking for each location, ask me for a quote; it is a bigger project.
• If you only need your till, booking, and stock systems sorted, that is Digitise.
• If the website is fine and nobody visits it, that is Promote.

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Talk it through

A free 30-minute call will tell us both what you need, and whether I am the right person to build it.