Squarespace Designer
for Restaurants
who want full tables, not just a pretty website
Your food is exceptional. Your website should be doing the work of a great front-of-house manager: greeting guests, answering the right questions, and getting them to book before they close the tab.
If you're searching for a Squarespace designer for restaurants, chances are your current site is costing you covers.
Maybe your reservation button is buried three clicks deep. Maybe your menu is a PDF that hasn't been updated since last season. Maybe you're running a private dining room that almost no one knows how to inquire about. I build restaurant websites that are conversion-focused from the first pixel — connected to your booking system, optimized for mobile, and structured so that guests can find what they need before they ever pick up the phone.
Signs your restaurant needs a brand + website refresh
Your OpenTable or Resy button is an afterthought — and guests are calling to make reservations instead of booking online.
Your menu is a static PDF with a timestamp from eight months ago, and your seasonal specials exist only on Instagram.
You have a private dining room that books by word-of-mouth because your site has no inquiry form and no dedicated page.
Your site looks fine on desktop but falls apart on mobile — and 70% of your traffic is on a phone.
You're running a rotating cocktail program or weekend brunch that never makes it onto the website in time.
Your Google Business Profile links to a homepage that doesn't answer the questions people search for: hours, parking, what the vibe is.
What we build for restaurants
Reservation-ready architecture.
Every page is structured around how diners actually make decisions: they check the menu, they look at photos, they want to know if they can book a large table. I integrate directly with Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and Toast so your reservation flow is seamless — no redirects to an OTA that buries your brand, no dead-end "call us" links. If you use a third-party widget, we make sure it loads fast, sits at the right point in the page, and doesn't fight your design.
Menu pages that update without a design degree.
Static PDF menus are a service problem, not just a design problem. I build menu pages inside your Squarespace CMS so your team can update dishes, 86 items, and swap seasonal specials the same day chef calls an audible.
Private dining + event inquiry flows.
If you have a private dining room, a semi-private section, or a chef's table, you need a dedicated page with real conversion copy, a photo gallery, and an inquiry form that captures party size, date, and budget, not a generic "contact us" button. I build these pages to rank in local search for terms like "private dining [your city]" and structure the form fields so your events coordinator has everything they need before the first email is sent.
Brand cohesion from the street to the screen.
For restaurants also building their visual identity, the Custom Branding package layers in a full logo suite, color palette, and typography system so your matchbooks, menus, signage, and website all feel like they came from the same place. Rosewood Farms and Supper Club Hoboken are good examples of this kind of soup-to-nuts brand and web build.
Service Offerings
Ways we can work together
Custom Branding
starting at $1,250
For restaurants that need the full visual identity first: logo suite, color palette, typography, brand guidelines, and launch-ready collateral like menu covers and social templates. Timeline: 4–6 weeks.
Custom Website Design
starting at $3,250
The full build — sitemap strategy, content planner, custom Squarespace design, mobile optimization, reservation/ordering/event inquiry integrations, SEO setup, and Google Analytics. Timeline: 4–6 weeks. Most restaurant clients start here or bundle it with branding.
Design Day Intensives
starting at $75/hour
Already have a site but need to refresh the menu page, build a private dining landing page, or get your seasonal specials actually on the website? Intensives run from a single day to one week and are available for focused, contained projects.
Project Overview
What happens after you inquire
01.
Fill out the project form
Tell me about your restaurant, your service needs, and your timeline. Budget and referral source fields help me come to the call prepared.
02.
Hear back within 1–2 business days
No automated sequences — I read every inquiry personally.
03.
Join a free 30-min. discovery call
We talk about your concept, your current site's friction points, and what a strong outcome actually looks like for your covers and private dining pipeline.
04.
Receive a custom proposal
Scoped specifically to your project, not a menu of add-ons you have to figure out yourself.
What Clients Are Saying
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs for restaurant owners
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Yes — all three. I embed your booking widget in a way that feels native to the design rather than bolted on. If you use Toast for online ordering, I can integrate that as well. The goal is always that the guest never feels like they've left your brand.
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That falls under the Custom Branding package or a Design Day Intensive, depending on scope. Many restaurant clients do a combined brand + web project and add menu design as part of the collateral suite. We can scope it together.
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Multi-location builds are something I work through during the discovery call. Squarespace can support location-specific pages under one brand umbrella, and we'd map the sitemap to make sure each location has its own reservation flow, menu, and hours without making the navigation confusing for guests.
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Yes. If the bones are solid, a Design Day Intensive might be all you need — a focused session to refresh the menu page, add a private dining section, or get your seasonal content updated and live.
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Custom Website Design projects run 4–6 weeks from kickoff. If you have a hard deadline — a reopening, a seasonal launch, a press feature — let me know upfront and we'll work the timeline backward from there.
Ready to stop losing covers to a website that isn't working?
Your dining room is full on a Friday night. Your website should be earning its keep every other day of the week too. Let's build something that brings in reservations, fills your private dining calendar, and represents your restaurant the way your food already does.