Hospitality The Drunken Duck
Pretoria-East pub & restaurant serving pub classics with a modern twist, live entertainment and games.
drunkenduck.co.za
Hospitality
Restaurant websites that answer the only three questions people actually have.
What is on the menu, what is happening this week, and where are you. Nearly every visitor to a restaurant website wants one of those three, usually on a phone, usually while deciding where to eat in the next twenty minutes.
Get a free quote From R3 500 - fixed before we begin
Your menu must not be a PDF
This is the single most common and most costly mistake in hospitality web design. A PDF menu downloads slowly on mobile data, opens in a separate viewer, pinch-zooms badly, and is close to invisible to Google.
A menu as real web pages loads instantly, reads properly one-handed, and lets you rank for the dishes you actually serve - which is how a lot of people search. It is also something you can update yourself in two minutes when a price changes, instead of re-exporting a designer's file.
Specials and events are the reason anyone returns
The menu brings a visitor once. What is on this week is what brings them back, and it is the content most restaurant sites either omit or leave nine months out of date - which reads worse than having none at all.
We built The Drunken Duck in Pretoria East with Specials & Events as a top-level item, because for a pub with live entertainment and regular events that page is as important as the menu and easily the most shareable thing on the site.
Your Google Business Profile matters more than your website
Uncomfortable but true. For a restaurant, the map pack, the photos, the hours and the reviews carry more weight in the decision than anything on your own domain. Most people never reach your site at all.
Which does not make the website pointless - it makes it the thing your profile links to, and the place where the menu, the events and the story live. We set the profile up alongside the build rather than treating it as an afterthought, because for hospitality it is the larger half of the job.
Proof
Restaurants, pubs & venues we've built for.
A live site you can open and judge for yourself.
Hospitality Good to know
Restaurants, pubs & venues: your questions.
Can I update the menu myself?
Yes, and you should - prices change too often for that to need a developer. We set the menu up so edits take a couple of minutes and no design knowledge.
Do we need online bookings?
Often not. For many South African venues a phone number and a WhatsApp link convert better than a booking system, because that is how people actually reserve here. We will tell you honestly if we think a system would go unused.
What does a restaurant website cost?
Most venues are well served by the R3 500 three-page or R5 000 five-page build - home, menu, specials and events, about, contact. Spending more rarely fills more tables.
Can you do our branding too?
Yes. We did the identity for The Drunken Duck alongside the site, including its illustrated mascot - which for a venue is more useful than a wordmark because it survives being cropped to a profile picture or printed on a shirt.
Other sectors
We've built for these too.
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