# Restaurant website checklist: 12 things it needs

Most guests visit your website on a phone, standing somewhere, hungry. Everything they need should be one thumb away.

## Step by step

1. **An Order button that stays on screen.** At the top and following the scroll.
2. **Hours and whether you are open now.** Today’s hours, clearly.
3. **Address, directions and tap to call.** Three things guests use most.
4. **The menu with prices.** As text, not only a photo of a paper menu.
5. **Real food photos.** Your dishes, not stock photos.
6. **Pages for popular dishes.** Each with your town in the title, so Google finds you for the dish.

## Website, POS and app

- [Why your restaurant website is slow, and how to fix it](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/slow-restaurant-website)
- [Online ordering with your POS: Clover, Square and Toast](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/pos-online-ordering)
- [Is a restaurant app worth it?](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/is-a-restaurant-app-worth-it)

## Six more

Your story in a few lines. Catering and big orders. Answers to common questions (parking, delivery, allergies). Links to your social media. The same name, address and phone as Google. Fast loading on a phone.

## How EatFuti helps

Every EatFuti website is built with these from day one, from your photos and menu, and kept current. See [Pho Dee-Licious](https://phodeeliciousdsm.com).

EatFuti is in Des Moines, Iowa, and works with independent restaurants across the United States, most of all in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

## How it works with EatFuti

1. **Run the free check.** Three minutes, no sign-up. See your Google page, where your Order button goes and how your site does on a phone.
2. **Say yes.** Send your photos and menu, or we take the menu from your POS or online. Online ordering is live 48 to 72 hours after signup.
3. **Your website goes up.** Built for you from your photos, menu and reviews, right after ordering is live. You approve it before it goes up.

## Questions owners ask

### Does a restaurant need a website if it has Google and Instagram?

Yes. Your website is the one place you control, it helps Google trust your listing, and it is where your own ordering lives.

### Should the menu be a PDF?

No. Text loads faster on phones and Google can read it.

## See where your restaurant stands today

[Run the free check](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/) (Free · 3 minutes · no credit card). Call (515) 493-0243.

Tiếng Việt: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/vi/guides/restaurant-website-checklist · Español: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/es/guides/restaurant-website-checklist

Source: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/restaurant-website-checklist · EatFuti Inc., 700 Locust St, Ste 304, Des Moines, IA 50309