Ask anyone how they choose a new restaurant or café and the answer is almost always the same three steps on a phone: look at the food, check the menu, find out how to get there. A restaurant website has one job, and that's making those three steps fast.

I'm a freelance WordPress and Flutter developer in Famagusta, North Cyprus. Small local businesses are a big part of what I think about, and restaurant sites are where the same few technical decisions matter most. Here is how I'd build one, from a developer's point of view.

The menu is a web page, not a file

The most common mistake is uploading the menu as a PDF or a photo of the printed card. On a phone, a PDF has to be downloaded, pinch-zoomed and scrolled sideways. Search engines also get very little from it, so a search like "breakfast in Famagusta" has nothing to match.

In WordPress I build the menu as real content: a custom post type or a simple repeater with sections, dish names, short descriptions and dietary tags (vegan, gluten-free, spicy).…