Confirming rather than persuading
Most visitors already know you exist or have just walked past. They are confirming hours, checking whether you do food, or looking for a reason to choose you over the place on the next corner.
People are not researching you for a special occasion. They are deciding where to go in the next ten minutes, usually while walking. That changes what the website is for entirely.
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Neighborhood Kitchen
A beautiful about page
Our story, our beans, our values
yourwebsite.com/story
“Fresh batch out, 7am”
Posted this morning, still warm
/houston/heights/morning-bake
Posted 7am
The only timeframe that matters
A cafe search is decided by proximity and whether the doors are open. Nobody is comparing your interior design against the place across the road. They want to know you are serving, whether the pastries have gone, and if there is a table free.
Start your 14-day trialA cafe posts more often than almost any business because something changes daily. Bakes, roasts, specials, a seasonal drink. Drag the slider to how many times you post a week.
336 examples
of your work, ready for the next customer who looks you up
One page per post
A normal website
nothing new after launch
A normal website
nothing new after launch
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Almost the opposite of a restaurant site, and most cafes build a smaller version of a restaurant site by default.
Start your 14-day trialMost visitors already know you exist or have just walked past. They are confirming hours, checking whether you do food, or looking for a reason to choose you over the place on the next corner.
What came out of the oven, which single origin is on this week, whether the kitchen is doing brunch today. None of it is important individually and all of it signals a cafe that is alive.
A cafe survives on people who come three times a week. Posting the small daily things is how you stay in their heads without paying for advertising.
One photo while the first batch is cooling. It takes less time than writing the specials board.
Or the new roast, or today's sandwich.
“Cardamom buns out, Heights.”
The site, your socials, and your Google listing at once.
Three questions that come up, including whether a cafe needs a website at all.
You need a Google listing more, and if you only do one thing it should be that. A site earns its place when you want to be found for something specific - brunch, gluten free, laptop friendly, a function room - that a listing has no room to say.
And it works well for regulars. It does not work for the person searching for a cafe in your suburb who follows nobody, and it disappears daily so nothing accumulates.
One photo while the first batch cools. If it takes longer than making a coffee it will not last a week, and it is not supposed to.
It takes thirty seconds and it is the most honest advertising a cafe has.
Start your 14-day trialIt is the most important single thing and worth getting right first. A site adds what a listing cannot carry: a proper menu, dietary information, function bookings, and pages for the specific things people search alongside your suburb.
Something almost always has. A guest roast, a seasonal drink, a supplier, a new face behind the machine, a change to opening hours. It does not need to be interesting, it needs to be current.
Yes, and it is worth doing properly. Gluten free, dairy free and vegan are searched with a suburb attached far more than most cafes realise, and being explicit wins those customers outright.
Yes, posts can go to your Google Business Profile alongside the site, which is where most cafe discovery actually happens.
It makes search more important rather than less, because nobody is walking past. Being found for what you serve rather than where you are becomes the main channel.
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