Web development for local restaurants · Portland, OR
Websites your staff can edit.
We build fast, custom restaurant sites with one killer feature: your own dashboard. Change the menu, swap photos, update hours — from any phone, in seconds, without paying a freelancer $200 per tweak or renting Squarespace forever.
Free mockup, no strings: we'll build YOUR restaurant's homepage before you spend a dollar. If you don't love it, keep it with our compliments.
Sound familiar?
The four ways restaurant websites quietly lose tables every week.
Your menu is a 4 MB PDF that won't load on a phone — where 70% of your customers are looking for it.
Your site says one thing, Google says another, and a hungry customer drives to a dark restaurant.
Every price change means an email, a week of waiting, and an invoice. So the site slowly goes stale.
The site you overpaid for years ago now actively undersells the food you actually serve.
One engine. Any identity.
Every site below runs on the same proven full-stack engine — real database, admin dashboard, no page-builder lock-in. What changes is the skin: your brand, your colors, your voice. That's how we deliver in days, not months.
Kohana
Light, warm, rounded. Photo-card menu, drifting-sunlight hero. Built for the neighborhood favorite.
Nocturne
Near-black restraint, thin serif, numbered menu. Quiet luxury for the reservation-only room.
Bandido
Loud, color-blocked, poster type with falling confetti. For the spot that's a party first.
Ember & Salt
Charcoal-plum, ember particle hero, live spice ratings. Our reference build — ask for the tour.
Live walkthrough available on every call — we'll edit a menu item from a phone, live, in front of you.
From mockup to live in 5 days.
No 8-week agency timelines. The engine is already built — we spend the time on your content, not on reinventing plumbing.
Free mockup
We build your homepage before you pay anything. Look at it, show your staff, decide with evidence.
50% deposit
Locks your build slot. Simple written agreement — you own your content, domain, and code.
Build & review
Your menu, photos, and story loaded in. Two revision rounds included. Launch in 3–5 days.
Training call
45 minutes and your team runs everything — menu edits, hours, photos — from any phone.
Honest pricing, real ownership.
One setup fee, one flat care plan. Cancel the care plan anytime and keep the entire site — your domain, your content, your code.
Launch
- Up to 5 pages, mobile-first
- Admin dashboard — edit everything
- Your domain, connected
- 45-min staff training call
- 30 days of edits included
Founding Client
- Everything in Launch
- Founding rate locked for year one
- Featured case study (with your OK)
- Direct line to the builder
Premium
- Everything in Launch
- Online ordering / reservation integration
- Google Business Profile optimization
- Quarterly photo & copy refresh
Every care plan includes: hosting, daily backups, uptime monitoring, security patches, and 1 hour of edits each month. 50% deposit to start; balance at launch.
Questions owners actually ask.
"My nephew built our site. Why switch?"
Most of our clients had a nephew site. The difference is the dashboard: when your nephew is busy, your menu still changes. We'll show you a live edit from a phone in the first 10 minutes of any call — that usually settles it.
"I get all my customers from Instagram."
Great — and where does your bio link send them? Google shows your website before your Instagram to everyone searching "restaurants near me." The site is what every channel links to. A weak one taxes every post you make.
"Squarespace is cheaper."
The way renting is cheaper than owning. You pay monthly forever, fight the editor for anything custom, and when you leave, the site stays behind. With us you own the code, the content, and the domain — cancel anytime, keep everything.
"What if I need changes after launch?"
Small stuff (menu, photos, hours) you do yourself in the dashboard — that's the whole point. Your care plan also includes 1 hour of our edits every month for the bigger things.
"How do I know you're legit?"
You see your own homepage before paying anything, you get a written agreement, and the balance isn't due until the site is live on your domain. The risk is on us, where it belongs.
Get your free homepage mockup.
Tell us about your restaurant. We'll look at your current site, build a free mockup of what it could be, and send it over — usually within 48 hours. No charge, no strings, no spam. Ever.
Prefer to talk?
Grab 15 minutes and we'll screen-share a live dashboard edit — watch a menu price change from a phone in real time.
Email: kimi@kinektstudio.com
Phone: (503) 765-6859
Book a call: [booking link — calendar account pending]
Based in Portland, Oregon. Serving independent restaurants, bars, food carts, and the businesses that feed this city.