Websites for restaurants, grotti and cafés in Ticino.

What a restaurant website actually needs

People deciding where to eat tonight decide in two minutes, on a phone, often standing up. These are the things they have to find without looking for them.

1. The menu as a page, not as a PDF

   A PDF forces the reader to zoom, drag the page around and read with two fingers. A menu written as a page reads at first glance, can be found on Google and is corrected in one place when the price of fish changes.

2. Hours that match reality

   Kitchen and dining room keep different hours, the closing day moves in low season, and August is not November. When the site and the map profile say different things, the reader believes whichever they find first.

3. A booking path that works at 23:40

   Table requests arrive when nobody is answering the phone in the dining room. The page has to say what to do at that moment. Lume 01 links the booking platform you already use, Lume 02 and Lume 03 include one simple technical integration.

4. How to get there and where to park

   For a grotto above Bellinzona the road matters as much as the menu. The address, the map, the last stretch on foot and the parking decide whether a family sets off or gives up.

5. Photographs of the real room and the real plates

   Stock imagery is recognisable and it costs credibility to a kitchen that actually exists. Lume 02 includes selection and light correction of the images you supply. Lume 03 includes 15–25 essential iPhone photographs, lightly corrected for the website · included only in the Mendrisiotto.

Which package, and why

The package follows the functions you need, not the sector. For a dining room the concrete question is how many pages the menu needs, whether a second language is required, and where the booking happens.

• Lume 01CHF 890

  Up to 3 pages and a link to your existing booking platform. Enough when the menu fits one page and bookings already live somewhere else.

• Lume 02CHF 1'290

  Up to 6 pages and one simple technical booking integration. Room for separate menus, a wine list, events and the story of the kitchen.

• Lume 03CHF 2'090

  Up to 8 pages, a second Latin-alphabet language and 15–25 essential iPhone photographs, lightly corrected for the website · included only in the Mendrisiotto. Worth considering when the room also works in German or English.

All prices are VAT included. Indicative timings are 2 weeks for Lume 01, 3 weeks for Lume 02, 4 weeks for Lume 03. Timings start from the confirmed start: valid acceptance, reconciled first payment, essential materials and required access. The service includes 15–25 essential photographs shot on iPhone and lightly corrected for the website; it is not a professional photography assignment. In the Mendrisiotto it is available as a CHF 290 extra for Lume 01 and Lume 02 and included in Lume 03. Outside the Mendrisiotto it is not included or offered as an extra.

Three concepts built end to end, none is a restaurant

The three published concepts are a flower shop, a barbershop and a boutique hotel. None of them is a restaurant and we are not inventing one. What you can check there holds for a dining room too: a price list that genuinely reads, and a booking path that goes all the way through.