Restaurant, café or takeaway
Menus, table bookings, online ordering and delivery platforms.
Plan my restaurant, café or takeawayFree. About 3 minutes. No account needed.
Food businesses live or die on two things most owners underestimate: the food cost of each dish, and how easy it is for a hungry person on a phone to see your menu and order.
What matters most when you start a restaurant, café or takeaway
- Register 28 days before you open. Food business registration with your local council is free and legally required. Everything else waits on it.
- Your menu must be text, not a PDF. Google cannot read a PDF properly, and neither can someone holding a phone in one hand and a bus rail in the other.
- Delivery platforms cost you 25–35%. They bring volume you could not reach alone. Your own ordering page brings margin. Most successful takeaways run both and slowly shift customers across.
- Photographs sell dishes. Natural light, plain surface, shot from above and at 45 degrees. An hour with a phone beats a month of posting logos.
- Reviews are your reputation. Reply to every one, especially the unfair ones. Future customers read the replies.
Answer a few questions and QuiqStart will build a launch plan around how you actually serve food — dine in, collection, delivery, or all three.