Restaurant and café menus
Bakery menu website with next day pre-orders
A bakery sells out early, and the customers who miss out are the ones it most wants to keep. This one page example for an invented Launceston bakery turns them into pre-orders: order by 2 pm, collect warm from 7 am the next morning, with every loaf, pastry and pie shown with its photo and price.
The home page at three widths
The same page on a desktop, a tablet and a phone, exactly as it renders. Scroll inside each frame to read it all; nothing here can be clicked or submitted.
Page by page
- Home /
- Hero (split), Menu (photo rows), About (photo and story), Opening hours (compact card), Contact (details and form)
- Privacy policy /privacy
- Text (single column), 5 in a row
- Terms of use /terms
- Text (single column), 5 in a row
Sections in order
A split hero with loaves on a shelf, the menu in photo rows across bread, pastries and pies and cakes, a photo and story section on the bread, opening hours with the Saturday cut off note and a celebration cakes enquiry form. The Sand palette with Fraunces headings gives a warm, floury look.
Making pre-orders work
The store has no delivery date field, so the cut off rule is stated in the copy and the pickup location instructions. Check orders after 2 pm each day in the store admin and bake to the list; mark each order ready for pickup in the morning to email the customer.
What makes this website work
The cut off is the headline
The hero says order today, collect it warm tomorrow, and the menu intro gives the 2 pm cut off and the 7 am pickup. A pre-order system only works if the rule is impossible to miss.
A whole tart or a slice
The lemon tart has a Size option, a slice at $7 or a whole tart for ten at $48, so a single product serves both the morning coffee crowd and the birthday order.
The bread story sells the price
Flour, water, salt and time: the about section explains the 36 hour ferment and the stone milled flour. It is why a $12 loaf is worth it, said in one paragraph beside a photo of dough being shaped.
Questions people ask
Can a bakery take pre-orders online?
Yes. Each item is a pickup product, customers add them and pay through Stripe Checkout, and the order lands in the store admin. There is no date picker, so state the cut off and pickup time in the menu intro and pickup instructions, as this example does.
Can I sell cakes by the slice and whole?
Give the cake an option such as Size with a slice and a whole cake, each with its own price. The menu shows the slice price as from and a Choose button. Custom celebration cakes are better as an enquiry, since each one is quoted separately.
What if we sell out of a loaf for tomorrow?
Track stock on the item and set how many you will bake. When the count reaches zero it shows as sold out and cannot be ordered, and stock is held for 35 minutes while a customer is paying, so two people cannot buy the last loaf.
How do custom cake enquiries arrive?
The contact section at the bottom asks for the date and number of guests as a message. Each enquiry goes to the message inbox with an email and a push to the owner, who replies with a quote. OneCraft Proposals can send that quote with a deposit link.
Can I close orders for public holidays?
Switch the store off for the day and the menu stays visible without ordering, or add an announcement bar about the closure. The hours section note can carry the change too, as this example uses it for the Saturday cut off.
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