For cafes, espresso bars and coffee vans across Brisbane, from a city laneway counter to a corner spot in Bulimba or West End: a site that shows your hours, your menu as real text and your Eat Safe stars if your audit gave you three or more, with nothing to pay until you've approved the draft.
Brisbane cafes open early, a lot of their seats are outside, and many customers walk in from a busway station, a CityCat terminal or an office nearby. Before they set out, people check four things on their phone: are you open, how do they get there, can the dog come, and does the place look clean and well run. A good cafe site answers all four above the fold.
Brisbane City Council gives every licensed food business an Eat Safe Brisbane star rating after its audit. With three stars or more, you can promote the rating with council's Eat Safe Brisbane logo. Council's terms for the logo are short: only the logo that matches your latest audit, only for the premises that earned it, and always with the words "Brisbane City Council". We put it beside your hours and swap it when an audit changes it.
Name the nearest stop and the walk in minutes. That might be a station on Brisbane Metro's M1 (Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street) or M2 (UQ Lakes to RBWH), which council says run every five minutes on weekdays and 24 hours on weekends; a CityCat terminal such as New Farm Park, Bulimba or Hawthorne; or a train station. Then add the parking that actually works near you.
Tables on a public footpath need a council footpath dining permit, and changing the approved area, the furniture or the hours means updating it. Queen Street Mall, Brunswick Street Mall and Chinatown Mall have a separate mall permit, with furniture packed away at closing. Say on the site what's outside and when, in the same terms as your permit, so nobody plans a sunny Sunday table you can't offer.
In Queensland it's each food business's call whether dogs can join customers in its outdoor dining area, and you can turn away any dog that isn't an assistance animal. If you welcome them, the site should say which tables, and that owners need to keep the dog tethered or close and away from plates. If you don't, say that too, so nobody walks the dog over for nothing.
The Royal Queensland Show holiday applies in the City of Brisbane only: Wednesday 12 August in 2026 and Wednesday 11 August in 2027. Logan, Redland and Moreton Bay took Monday 10 August in 2026 instead. A group with a cafe on each side of the council boundary can have two holiday timetables in one week, so each venue's hours get their own line, posted before the week arrives.
Paddington is a Brisbane suburb and a Sydney one; Hamilton is a Brisbane suburb and a Newcastle one. A cafe on Given Terrace or Racecourse Road should write the street, the suburb and "Brisbane" together in the page text and in your Google Business Profile, so a search, or a visitor's map app, doesn't send people to the wrong state.
Brisbane City Council's Eat Safe Brisbane scheme rates each licensed food business after an Environmental Health Officer has inspected the premises, talked to staff, checked records and watched the work. On council's ratings page, three stars means a good level of compliance with the Food Act 2006, four a high level and five full compliance. Two stars or fewer can't be displayed. Display is voluntary, and council won't publish your rating in its online star search without your agreement. A higher rating also means fewer audits. If you've lifted your practices, you can apply for a reassessment, after three months for a rating of two stars or below, or six months for three stars and above. Council's terms for the logo add the detail that matters for a website: you need a current Brisbane City Council food licence and a signed Eat Safe agreement, and the logo has to come from council's original artwork, not a redrawn, cropped or scanned copy.
Not every Greater Brisbane cafe falls under that scheme. Logan City Council runs Eat Safe Logan, which inspects every licensed food business in the city and rates it from zero to five stars; showing the rating at your premises is voluntary, and businesses on three stars or more can choose to be listed on council's website. Ipswich runs Eat Safe Ipswich, where only businesses with three or more stars may choose to show theirs. So a cafe in Springwood or Springfield Lakes shows its own council's rating, never Brisbane's. Where a council doesn't run a star scheme, we leave ratings off the site rather than hint at one.
Footpath tables come under council's Footpath Dining Local Law 2011. Council's permit page says you'll need a food business licence and $20 million public liability insurance naming council, plus Department of Transport and Main Roads approval if you're beside a state-controlled road; tables on your own private land don't need a permit. The Queen Street, Brunswick Street (with Beirne Lane) and Chinatown malls use separate permits under the Public Land and Council Assets Local Law 2014. Council asks for good-quality furniture there, not cheap moulded plastic, and umbrellas with at least 2.3 metres of clearance. Dogs are a separate question. Queensland Health's guidance on dogs in outdoor dining areas leaves the decision to you. It asks owners to keep their dog tethered or close, stop it eating from plates and take it away from the premises to relieve itself.
Growing groups have one more rule to think about. Queensland Health's kilojoule menu labelling applies to chains selling standard food items at 20 or more outlets in Queensland or 50 or more nationally, and it names coffee and bakery chains among its examples. Each standard item must show its average kilojoules, along with the statement "the average adult daily energy intake is 8,700 kJ". That goes on menu boards and printed menus, and on online ordering websites and apps as well. Mobile food vehicles, dine-in-only restaurants and businesses mainly in catering are exempt. A business outside the rule may show kilojoules voluntarily, but only in the way the Act requires. For an independent with one or two cafes, the online menu needs prices and dietary notes, not kJ figures.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Brisbane businesses by phone and email. Our Queensland clients include Queensland Dance & Performing Arts in Thorneside, on the bayside, and M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas. Neither is a cafe, and we haven't built a cafe site yet; the work section below says so. You send your menu, hours, photos and star certificate, we lay them out as a draft you can check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
Neither of these is a cafe. One is a business on Brisbane's bayside whose site is built around a weekly timetable, close to how a cafe's hours and specials need to read. The other shows how much a single page can hold when most customers find you on a phone.
A Thorneside dance school teaching ballet, contemporary and circus arts. Its 12-page site gives each program its own page and keeps a weekly class timetable, a filterable photo gallery, FAQs and an online enrolment form within easy reach. Parents check that timetable before they leave home, the way customers check a cafe's hours.
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A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page sets out six services, a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call. A small cafe's single page does the same jobs with a menu, photos of the room and one tap to ring the counter.
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A coffee van, kiosk or hole-in-the-wall counter: hours, a short menu, the nearest stop, your Eat Safe stars if you hold three or more, and an order or call button, all on one page.
Suits most Brisbane cafes
$899
A home page with hours, directions and your star rating, a menu page with dietary notes, and a third page for catering, beans by the bag or the story of the place.
$1,499
For a group with cafes in different suburbs, perhaps either side of the Brisbane and Logan boundary, each with its own hours, holiday timetable and rating, or a cafe that roasts and supplies wholesale.
Yes, if your latest audit gave you three stars or more. Council lets those businesses use the Eat Safe Brisbane logo to promote their rating, provided it's the logo for your current rating, it refers only to the premises that earned it, and the words "Brisbane City Council" appear with it. We use council's own artwork, never a redrawn copy, and change it after your next audit; that's an image and text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Not for both. Council's logo terms say the logo can only refer to the individual premises that achieved that rating, so each venue's page shows its own stars. If one venue is below three stars, its page leaves the rating off until a later audit lifts it.
The Queensland-wide ones do: the Food Act, Queensland Health's guidance on dogs and the kilojoule rule for chains. Star ratings and footpath permits come from your own council, and Logan runs Eat Safe Logan, so your site shows that rating. Your show holiday can differ too; in 2026 Logan's was Monday 10 August, two days before Brisbane's.
Only if you're part of a chain selling standard items at 20 or more outlets in Queensland or 50 nationally. In that case Queensland Health's rules reach your online ordering site and app, with the 8,700 kJ statement. Independent cafes don't need kJ figures, and mobile food vehicles are exempt. If you're close to the threshold, read Queensland Health's page before we lay out the menu.
Everything runs by phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. Send your menu, hours and some photos; we build a draft you check on your phone and ask for changes until it's right, then you pay. We reply within 24 hours. From October to April our clocks run half an hour ahead of yours, and the rest of the year half an hour behind.
Send us your menu, your hours, your Eat Safe certificate if you have one, and a few photos of the place. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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