Why most restaurant websites are broken — and what to do about it

Most independent restaurant websites are stuck in 2014.

They were built by a friend-of-a-friend in WordPress on a Saturday afternoon, then never touched again. The menu is a 3MB PDF. The "Book a Table" button points to a form that emails the manager. Mobile? It works if you squint.

This is not a developer problem. It's a tooling problem.

What "good" looks like

A good restaurant website does three things very well:

1. Loads in under a second on a phone with one bar of signal.
2. Lets a hungry stranger book a table without thinking.
3. Stays out of your way the rest of the time.

That's it. Everything else — gift cards, loyalty, social, photo carousels — is gravy.

What we built

olivv.ai generates the whole thing from a description. The menu pulls from your POS or a PDF. Bookings go straight to your floor plan. Gift cards are reconciled to the same till.

No designer. No developer. No weekend lost.