Websites for cafés & bakeries
People order when they remember, and that is usually late at night
Cafés, bakeries, delis, restaurants and food trucks. Built to take the order at eleven at night.
It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night. Someone on a couch just remembered Saturday is their mother’s birthday, and she loves your lemon cake. Your doors have been locked for five hours. The only question is whether your website can take the order anyway.
The two things a food business website has to get right are hours that are correct and an order that can be placed when the shop is closed. Most enquiries happen outside opening times, so a site that only offers a phone number loses them. Pre-orders, custom cake requests and subscriptions all need to work at 11pm without anybody being there.
11pm
When the birthday cake gets remembered, the brunch gets planned and the weekly bread subscription gets started. The shop is shut. The website is not.
Walk through a finished café build →
Main St. Roasters is a complete concept site: a fictional café, built and finished to the standard your real one would be. Open it on your phone and try to catch it loading.
Wrong hours cost you more than bad design
The single most damaging thing on a food business website is an opening time that is out of date, because somebody drives over and finds you shut. That person does not come back and they tell people.
Hours live in one place and update everywhere, including your Google Business Profile, which is where most people actually check. Holiday hours get handled too, because that is when the mistake usually happens.
Why late-night ordering matters for a bakery
Somebody remembers they need a birthday cake at eleven at night. If your site can take that order, you have it. If it says "call us during opening hours", they order from whoever can.
The same applies to pre-orders on daily items. Letting people reserve tomorrow's loaves the night before both wins the sale and tells you how much to bake, which is a real operational gain rather than a marketing one.
How do you handle lead times on custom orders?
State them in the form, before anyone fills it in. "Two days' notice on anything custom" prevents the disappointing phone call and the awkward refund, and it makes you look organised rather than restrictive.
Same for the things that sell out. "Sold out by noon" is not an apology, it is proof the food is good and a reason to come earlier.
Do the photos really matter that much?
For food, yes, more than any other industry on this site. People are buying with their eyes and a bad photo of good bread reads as bad bread.
Your food, photographed by you in your own light, never a stock photo of somebody else's croissant. The phone photos you already take are enough; they get prepared and compressed properly before they ship.
Questions people ask before they hire
How much does a café website cost in Vancouver?
A single-page café or bakery site from Droom is $1,500 one time plus $99 a month. Adding online ordering, pre-orders or a subscription makes it $4,800 one time.
Can people subscribe to a weekly coffee or bread delivery?
Yes. Recurring subscriptions can be built in, which for roasters and bakeries is usually the most profitable thing on the site because it turns an occasional customer into a fixed monthly figure.
Do you integrate with Square or Shopify?
Yes, either can be connected, or a simpler order form can be built if you do not want the monthly cost of a full commerce platform.
Can the menu be changed without calling you?
Menu changes are part of the $99 a month upkeep and come back within 48 hours. For daily specials, a section you edit yourself can be built instead so nothing waits on me.
See your site the way a hungry stranger does
The free audit checks your hours, your ordering path and your photos, on a phone, at the time people actually look.
Last updated 2026-08-07