For Melbourne cafes, roasters and coffee vans, from a counter off Flinders Lane to a corner in Northcote, Footscray or St Kilda: a site that gives the tram stop by number, says where the van is on Saturday, shows whether the parklet is open and can sell your beans, with nothing to pay until you've approved the draft.
Most of the general jobs, such as hours near the top, a menu typed as text and an Order ahead button, are on our main cafes page. In Melbourne a few more questions come up: which tram stop, which train line since the tunnel opened, whether the van is at the market this week, and whether the outside seats are dog-friendly. These are the parts we'd plan for here.
Yarra Trams numbers the stops along each route, and the sign at each stop shows its name and number, so a line such as "Stop 5 on route 30, then two minutes' walk" is easier to follow than "near the corner". List every route that passes you, the stop number in each direction and the walk in minutes. If you're in the CBD or Docklands, say whether that stop is inside the Free Tram Zone, so a visitor knows whether they need a myki.
Since 1 February 2026, Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham trains have run only through the Metro Tunnel, and Frankston trains are back in the City Loop. A cafe that relies on commuters should check its directions still match how its regulars travel: Town Hall or State Library for the CBD, Parkville for the hospitals and the university, Anzac for St Kilda Road. The old wording can quietly send people the long way.
Outdoor seats are a reason people choose one cafe over another, but they come with a council permit, and councils differ. Say how many seats are outside, whether they're in a parklet or on the footpath, and whether they're covered. If the permit ends or the parklet is removed, the photo and the line about it come off the site the same week.
Under the national food rules, pet dogs can sit with customers only in outdoor areas that aren't enclosed, and even then it's your choice. Assistance animals must be let into every area customers use. If dogs are welcome outside, the site says which tables and any conditions, such as on a lead and on the ground; if they aren't, say so plainly.
A coffee van that works farmers' markets, sports grounds and school events needs a schedule more than a map pin. A short page lists the place, the street entrance and the hours for each day, with the standing spots first and one-off events below. You already plan each week in FoodTrader, so the same list can come to us by email.
If the brunch menu has a spritz or a mimosa, it should show when drinks are served under your licence, which on Sundays may be later than the kitchen opens. If you'd like to sell wine through the same online store as your beans, that's a separate licensing question for Liquor Control Victoria, and it's best settled before the products go online.
Local councils register and inspect cafes in Victoria. Safe Food Victoria (opens in a new tab), which began on 1 July 2026, licenses dairy, meat and seafood businesses, but it says councils remain responsible for most food businesses, cafes and restaurants included. Councils sort every premises by risk. The state's classification guide (opens in a new tab) lists cafés with restaurants and takeaways in class 2, where food is cooked on site and held before serving, while a business whose only food activity is serving coffee or tea, with milk or plant milk, sits in class 4, the lowest. Class 4 businesses notify their council instead of registering, and pay no fee for that notification (opens in a new tab). Your council confirms the class and whether you also need a food safety program or supervisor. Unlike the schemes on our Sydney and Brisbane cafe pages, a Victorian class isn't a rating to show customers, so it shapes your paperwork rather than your home page.
Vans, carts and market stalls apply through FoodTrader (opens in a new tab), the state's system that took over from Streatrader. It works out your principal council, usually the one where you prepare or store the food, and then you lodge a statement of trade so that every council you'll trade in knows where and when you'll be there. Boroondara Council's guide for temporary and mobile food businesses (opens in a new tab) says one is needed each time you operate, at least a day ahead, with no fee, and not for a private event such as a wedding or a work function. Lead times differ: the City of Whittlesea, which takes in Epping and South Morang, asks for at least five days (opens in a new tab). Because you're already writing down each place and date, a public schedule on your website costs you a few extra minutes a week, and it saves regulars guessing which market you're at.
Outdoor seating depends on whose footpath it is. The City of Melbourne's outdoor dining and footpath trading permit (opens in a new tab), issued under its Activities Local Law 2024, covers furniture on footpaths, in parklets and in non-standard spots such as nature strips, charges a higher licence fee per square metre in the central city than elsewhere in the municipality, Docklands included, and asks for public liability insurance. Darebin, which takes in Northcote, Thornbury and Preston, lists permits (opens in a new tab) for outdoor dining, A-frame signs and displays of goods, and issues parklet permits for 12 months, which can be renewed each year. Other councils set their own conditions and fees, so the council your cafe sits in is the one to ask. In both the City of Melbourne and Darebin a sandwich board on the footpath may need a permit as well, which is one more reason to keep the day's specials on the website. Dogs at outdoor tables follow Food Standards Australia New Zealand's rules on animals (opens in a new tab).
Train travel into the city changed in 2026. The Metro Tunnel (opens in a new tab) opened on 30 November 2025 with five stations, Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac, and from 1 February 2026 the Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines moved into it full time while Frankston trains returned to the City Loop. On the trams, Yarra Trams' route guides (opens in a new tab) list every stop by number, and the City of Melbourne describes the Free Tram Zone (opens in a new tab) as the central city and Docklands, bounded by Spring, Flinders and La Trobe streets and taking in the streets around Queen Victoria Market. For liquor, two details matter most to a cafe: the restaurant and cafe licence (opens in a new tab) has standard Sunday hours from 10am, and Liquor Control Victoria lists a separate remote seller's licence (opens in a new tab) for selling alcohol through a website, app or phone.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Melbourne businesses by phone and email. Our Melbourne client is Dr Tabara Dione Coaching; we haven't built a cafe site yet, and the next section says so. Both states move their clocks for daylight saving on the same dates, so Adelaide runs half an hour behind Melbourne all year, and a call after your lunch rush at 3pm is 2.30 for us. You send the menu, hours, photos and the stop people arrive at; we arrange them into a draft you check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
We haven't built a cafe website yet. Our Melbourne client shows the kind of booking link a cafe would use for Order ahead or group tables, and a NSW earthmoving site shows how a big photo gallery behaves on a phone, which is how a cafe's room, counter and plates would be shown.
Confidential coaching for doctors, led by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. The site has a services overview, an about page covering her credentials, a contact form and online discovery-call booking linked from every page. On a cafe site, the same link would open your ordering or booking tool.
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For a coffee van, a kiosk or a hole-in-the-wall: hours, a short menu, the tram stop or this week's market spots, an embedded map and tap-to-call, all on one page.
Our suggestion for most Melbourne cafes
$899
A home page with hours and transport directions, a menu page with dietary markers and the brunch drinks, and a third page for the van's schedule, catering or wholesale enquiries.
$1,499
For a roaster with a cafe, or a group across suburbs: a page per venue with its own stop and hours, wholesale, catering and your story. Selling beans online is an online store, priced at $799 or $1,999.
Give the site a schedule page. Each week, when you lodge your statements of trade in FoodTrader, email us the same places and times and we update the page; text changes to existing pages are covered by the $30 monthly hosting, and we reply within 24 hours. Spots that repeat, such as the same market every Saturday, sit in a standing list, so you only send changes.
Yes. Our $799 store takes up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management, which suits a few blends, single origins and grind options. The $1,999 store has unlimited products, multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping, for regulars who reorder. You supply the product words and photos. If wine is meant to sit beside the beans, check with Liquor Control Victoria first, since it lists a separate licence for alcohol sold online.
Name the station, the exit or street closest to you and the walk in minutes. If regulars on the Sunbury, Cranbourne or Pakenham lines used to come via the City Loop, they now arrive through the tunnel, so name the station they actually use: Town Hall, State Library, Parkville, Anzac or Arden. Email us the new wording and we'll change it.
How many people it seats, whether it's covered or heated, and whether dogs can join you there, which is your call if the area isn't enclosed. Add a photo once it's built. Parklet permits run for a set period, Darebin's for 12 months, so if you decide not to renew, email us and we'll take it off the site before customers turn up expecting a seat outside.
For most cafes, no. Safe Food Victoria started on 1 July 2026 and licenses dairy, meat and seafood businesses and those using new food technologies, while your council still registers and inspects cafes. If you're unsure which body you answer to, Safe Food Victoria's registration guide (opens in a new tab) or your council's environmental health team can tell you. Nothing about it needs to appear on your site.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team working with businesses Australia-wide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, Dr Tabara Dione in Melbourne among them. Send the menu, hours, photos of the room and the nearest stop or station; we build the draft, you ask for changes until it's right, and you pay once you approve it. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos.
Email your menu, opening hours, the stop or station your customers come from and a handful of photos. We'll reply with a quote, build a draft you can check on your phone, and you pay nothing until you're happy with it.
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