DemoCasa Melguizo does not exist · sample site by Fernando Gómez de la MataSee who built it

For the owner

The house dashboard

Customers never see this screen: you do. It is where the set menu gets changed in a minute, from the phone behind the bar, and where the service's bookings show up.

DemoThis is the part that actually gets bought. A pretty website is looked at once; a chalkboard you change yourself every morning is what keeps the site alive in January. Try it: type what's on today and hit publish.

Today's board

One dish per line. Just like the board by the door.

How it looks on the site

Starters

  • Stewed lentils with chorizo
  • House salad
  • Noodle soup
  • Baked macaroni

Mains

  • Battered hake
  • Roast chicken with lemon
  • Meatballs in sauce
  • Potato omelette

Desserts

  • Homemade flan
  • Rice pudding
  • Seasonal fruit

14,90 €

Bookings for this service

The ones that came in through the website, in the order they arrived.

Try booking as a customer
  • 13:30Ana V.2 peopleBy the window if possible
  • 14:00Grupo Herrera6 peopleOne gluten-free
  • 14:15Javier S.4 people
  • 14:30Rosa M.2 peopleHigh chair for a child
  • 21:00Cena de equipo8 peopleArriving around half past
Diners booked22

What you are not paying

A booking platform charges a commission for every diner who sits down. With the diners listed above and a commission of €2.50 per person:

€55today
€1,375a month, at this rate over twenty-five service days

The €2.50 per diner is an indicative industry figure, put here so the sum can be done in front of you with your own numbers. Booking through your own site, that commission does not exist.

And this is what keeping it going costs

The set menu only changes if somebody changes it. That somebody is you, from here, in a minute — or it's me, if you would rather hand it over. Write to me and we'll talk it through.

Ask on WhatsApp

What this page is

Casa Melguizo does not exist

It is an invented eatery. This website was built by Fernando Gómez de la Mata, a web designer and developer, to show how a neighbourhood hospitality business's site turns out: the daily menu, the à la carte menu, the bookings and the dashboard the owner changes it all from.

If you were looking for somewhere to eat

Better to say so straight away: there is no food here. No premises, no kitchen and no tables. And writing to this WhatsApp books no table, not here and not anywhere else: at the other end there is no restaurant, there is a web designer. Search Google for the restaurant you had in mind and call its own number.

If you run a bar, an eatery or a restaurant

Then this page is for you, and it is exactly what I can build. Everything you have seen —the set menu changed from a phone, the à la carte menu with no PDF and no QR code, bookings without commission and the house dashboard— works the same way with your name on it. Write to me and I'll tell you what yours would cost and how soon you'd have it.

Message on WhatsApp

WhatsApp opens with the message already written. You decide whether to send it.

The only channel on this demo: WhatsApp 619 20 24 51, Fernando Gómez de la Mata. Casa Melguizo has no phone and no email because Casa Melguizo does not exist.

Book a table

On your restaurant's website, this button dials

Here it does not. The number you can see —400 12 34 56— sits in a range Spain's national numbering plan leaves unassigned: it belongs to nobody and rings nowhere. On your own site, this button opens the customer's phone with your number already in it.

In a neighbourhood eatery a good share of bookings still come in by phone, even when there is a form. That is why the button sits in the header and stays fixed on mobile.