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Creating an Online Website for Your Saudi Restaurant

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Online Website for Your Saudi Restaurant

If you reach this piece of content by searching for a guide to create your restaurant website to gain knowledge about that topic before creating it, we congratulate you for making such an efficient decision.

Having a website for your Saudi restaurant is a necessity nowadays, as no one intends to lose his chance to raise his profits from a market that stands globally at 5.18 billion online users in April 2023 statistics.

So let’s dig into that topic to ensure that you have the perfect guide to launch your restaurant website as soon as possible.

 

Importance of an Online Presence

With an in-depth look at the online food ordering statistics, you recognize the importance of the online presence. Here are some of these numbers:

  • The Saudi market online food ordering growth valued at around 2 billion dollars in 2022.
  • That market’s expected growth rate is about 3.9% until 2028.
  • The average revenue of the food delivery market in KSA is expected to be 634.90 dollars in 2024.

 

You can read more about that topic by searching KW “Online Food Delivery – Saudi Arabia” on Statista or techsciresearch Report.

 

So, going with the market flow is the main reason to have an online presence. Besides the following reasons:

Reaching a Wider Audience: if you target booming your sales, you need an online presence to reach new audiences and keep the existing ones by enhancing their experience.

Enhancing Credibility: good websites enable you to gain audience trust. Easy ordering steps are reflected in the retention percentage, as the more you make it easy to reach and order from you, the more your customers get back to you.

Improving Customer Engagement: having an interactive website improves your users’ experience. No one wants to see the menu pdf version on a website and then call you to order, although they expect to interact with the menu, choose their favorite items, and pay. That’s how the customers’ behavior has changed in the last few years.

 

The 2-steps guide to create a perfect restaurant website

1.  Key Elements of a Restaurant Website (checklist)

 

Make sure that the website includes the following Key Elements:

  • User-Friendly Design: your website design must have an attractive and user-friendly design. In such a competition if you don’t care about the design, users can easily find a competitor who cares about it. So the main stone to get orders is to introduce audiences to an easy, and understandable website design.

 

  • High-Quality Images: the first bite for your sandwiches isn’t by mouths, it’s by users’ eyes. So high-quality images have a great impact on your purchases. It also expresses the food quality from the audience’s point of view.

 

  • Online payment method: one of the changes in users’ behavior is to pay online. So make sure that the restaurant website enables your audience to pay online.

 

  • Online Reservation System: the online reservation feature is a valuable step for user experience enhancement. It saves the hassle of wasting time, errors, and cancellations that occur in the traditional way of reserving a table.

Imagine that your audience can easily see the tables’ status, pay the deposit, and reserve it using your website. “What a          perfect-easy experience!!!” said one of your customers.

 

  • Contact Information and Location: Ensure easy access to your restaurant’s contact details and location to double your restaurant traffic for both; restaurant branches and website.

 

2.         How to Choose a Website Builder

After knowing the key elements to build your restaurant website, you need to choose a suitable website builder.

In such a topic you have two ways. The first one is the custom solution where you contact a web developer team to build a website from scratch. Which means that you choose the hard way to do that mission. As it takes about 6 months to get your website, the cost is high compared with the SAAS products, besides the difficulty of reaching a high-profile company to trust.

The second, SMART way, is to collaborate with a SAAS company that enables you to design the website as a mirror to your brand identity, Valuable integrations with the inline payment gateways, and more features at a low cost. (You can activate your website in a few days, By The Way).

 

The main 10 Elements that the perfect SAAS provider offers:

  1. Receiving and managing orders
  2. Delivery companies integrations
  3. Online payment integrations
  4. Marketing tools
  5. CRM
  6. Periodic reports
  7. Loyalty programs
  8. Virtual Drive-thru management
  9. Social media integrations
  10. Customer support

 

Finally, that’s the 2-steps guide to build your restaurant website and increase your profits.

You may know that Order is the main role player in the Saudi F&B market. We enable about 800 restaurants and cafes to manage more than 5,000 branches.

Visit the website to check the existing examples of Effective Restaurant Websites and Contact us for more about the features we provide you with.

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