Websites
What a restaurant site actually needs
After forty restaurant launches: hours, a menu that loads on 3G, and a booking button that works. The rest is optional.
7 min readBy Kerem Yıldız
Web studio · Kadıköy, Istanbul
Websites for places people actually visit.
120+ businesses since 2014
Case study · Kıyı Meyhane
From a PDF menu to full Saturdays
Kıyı had a beautiful room and a website that was a single PDF. We rebuilt it in six weeks: a menu that updates from the kitchen tablet, WhatsApp booking with closed days built in, and a Google profile that finally shows the right hours.
- Bookings via the site up 3.1× in four months
- Menu page loads in 0.9 s on a mid-range phone
Services
Four things, done properly
01
Websites
Fast, bilingual sites you can edit yourself. Hosting, SSL and backups included for the first year.
02
Booking systems
WhatsApp, deposit and calendar flows connected to the tools you already use.
03
Google Ads
Local campaigns measured by calls and bookings — not clicks. Monthly report in plain language.
04
Photography
A half-day shoot of your real rooms, food and people. No stock photos, ever.
2025 in figures
The annual report, short version
- Sites launched
- 34
- Source: Studio project log
- Clients still with us after a year
- 92% percent
- Source: Retainer contracts, Dec 2025
- Median page load on 4G
- 1.4s seconds
- Source: CrUX, p75
- Average days from brief to first design
- 11
- Source: Studio project log
How we work
Six weeks, four meetings
A morning at your place
Week 1We watch the front desk, read your reviews and ask what people call about.
Copy and structure
Week 2Words first, in both languages. You approve a plain document, not a mock-up.
Design and shoot
Weeks 3–4One design direction, refined twice; photographs taken on a weekday morning.
Build and launch
Weeks 5–6Bookings tested with your staff, Google profile updated, analytics in place.
Studio
The people you’ll talk to
Kerem Yıldız
Founder, strategy
Restaurants · Hotels
LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Elif Aydın
Design lead
Type · Art direction
Selin Öztürk
Engineering
Booking flows · Performance
Deniz Uçar
Paid search
Google Ads · Local SEO
Clients
In their words
1 / 3
They spent a whole Saturday at the restaurant before drawing anything. The site reads like us.
Deniz ArslanCo-owner · Kıyı MeyhaneOur ads finally report bookings instead of clicks. We cut the budget by a third and got more appointments.
Ayşe KorkmazClinic manager · Defne ClinicSix weeks, exactly as promised. The Turkish and English pages are equally good, which never happens.
Journal
Notes from the studio
Taking new projects from January
Tell us about your place.
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