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A website for your restaurant,built in a minute.Changed by WhatsApp.

Type your restaurant's name and we build it from your Google listing and your website. Then tonight's special, a new menu or the Christmas hours are one message away.

  • Built in a minute, from what's already online
  • “Tonight's special is the lamb” by WhatsApp
  • Every dish marked for allergens, in a form people can check before they come
See my website, free

14-day free trial.
£49 a month if you choose to carry on.
Cancel any time.

An example restaurant website on a phone

Sound familiar?

“People with an allergy ring to ask what's in things before they'll book.”

Every dish marked for the fourteen allergens on your menu page, changed by message when a recipe changes, so they can check before they come.

“The menu online still has last year's prices.”

Send a photo of the new menu, or just the new prices. On your site as soon as you say yes, and the old one is gone.

“People turn up when we're shut, because the hours online are wrong.”

“Open Sundays till 4 now” or “Christmas hours” by message, and your site is right before you've put the phone down.

“Bookings come by phone in the middle of service.”

Table bookings on your site if you want them, £29 a month with no fee per cover, or a link to the booking tool you already use.

“Everything we have is on Instagram.”

Keep posting the plates. Your menu, hours and how to book also live on a page of your own, where Google sends people.

Change it between services

Send tonight's special, a new menu, a supper club date, or a change of hours. You see a preview first, then tap Publish.

  • Nothing goes live until you say yes
  • Change your mind? “Put it back” undoes it
  • Your staff can update it too

Found on Google, and by AI assistants

People ask Google, and now ChatGPT and the rest, the same questions: open today, dog friendly, what's the menu. Your site answers them in the form each one reads.

  • The structured data Google reads on every page: hours, menu, prices, where to book
  • A sitemap and an llms.txt, the file AI assistants read, built from the same words
  • Change your hours by WhatsApp and the search engines get the change in the same publish
  • Your own domain name, with your town in the title

We cannot promise where you appear in a search. We can promise that what Google and the assistants read about you is right, and that it stays right.

Already have a website?

  • We bring your menus, photos and words across
  • In your own colours, with your logo
  • Keep your domain name: we connect it for you
  • Then you can cancel your old hosting and web support

Your email stays where it is. If it's with the company that hosts your website now, check with them before you cancel.

The Lantern example website

See an example

The Lantern is an example we made to show what yours could look like: tonight's special at the top, the month's menu with every allergen marked, opening and kitchen hours, the supper club, and a table to book.

Visit the example

Free 14-day trial

  • Free 14-day trial, then £49 a month
  • No setup fee, cancel any time
  • A reminder before your first payment
  • Table bookings optional, £29 a month

Questions

Can the menu show allergens?
Yes. Each dish carries its allergens from the fourteen the law names, and you change them by message when a recipe changes. We never put an allergen on the page that you haven't confirmed.
Do you take table bookings?
Yes, as an optional extra at £29 a month, with no fee per cover. Guests book on your site in under a minute and you hear about each booking on WhatsApp. If you already use OpenTable or ResDiary, your site links to it instead.
Can I change the menu for the season?
Yes. Send a photo of the new menu and we read it, or send the changes. You see a preview and tap Publish.
Can I change the hours for Christmas or a bank holiday?
Yes. Send “Christmas Eve till 3, closed Boxing Day” and the site shows it on the day and in the hours table. Send “back to normal” when it is.
I already have a website and a domain name. Can I keep the domain?
Yes. Your site starts on a free townmember.com address during the trial. When your subscription starts we connect your own domain, usually within the hour, and you can then cancel your old hosting.
Will my email keep working?
Yes. We only point your website at us; your email stays where it is. If your email is run by the same company as your old website, check with them before you cancel.