For Sydney cafes, espresso bars and coffee carts, from a CBD lobby counter to a kiosk by the beach: a site that tells people whether you're open, how to reach you by Metro, ferry or light rail, and what's on the menu, with nothing to pay until you've approved the draft.
Sydney customers usually choose a cafe on the way somewhere else: off a train, between meetings, after a swim. So most of the work a cafe site does here is practical. It tells a stranger which exit to take, whether there's an outside table for the dog, and whether you open on Sundays.
Name the nearest Metro or train station, light rail stop or ferry wharf, the exit to use and the walk in minutes. Since 30 October 2026 the line through Marrickville, Campsie and Bankstown has been Metro instead of the T3, so a page that still says "T3 Bankstown Line" now points people to a service that has been replaced.
In council areas that take part in the NSW hygiene rating scheme, a cafe can be awarded a Good, Very Good or Excellent certificate after its routine council inspection, and the NSW Food Authority says businesses can promote that score on their website. We place it beside your hours with the month it was given, and change it after the next visit.
Plenty of people search for a dog-friendly cafe before they set out. Under the food rules, letting pet dogs sit at your outdoor tables is your call, but only where the area isn't enclosed, which rules out the times winter blinds close it in. Assistance animals must be let into every customer area, so a "no dogs inside" line has to say that too.
A lobby espresso bar in the CBD might shut on Saturdays; a beachside cafe in Bronte or Manly may open at six and close early when the weather turns. Spell those patterns out on the home page in plain words and keep your Google Business Profile saying the same, so nobody walks to a locked door on a Sunday morning.
For catering trays or bulk coffee runs to offices in the CBD, North Sydney, Parramatta or Macquarie Park, the order form asks for the building, the level and a name for the security desk, plus your cut-off for next-morning orders. That saves a phone call chasing details while the morning queue builds.
If you run cafes in two or three suburbs, each one gets its own section or page with its own hours, map, phone number and menu differences, so a search for your Surry Hills cafe doesn't turn up your Parramatta one's closing time. Groups heading towards chain size should read the NSW kilojoule rule below as well.
Retail food businesses in NSW are inspected by their local council, and whether you can display a hygiene score depends on which council that is. The NSW Food Authority's list of councils that reported taking part in Scores on Doors in 2024/25 includes the City of Sydney, Parramatta, Randwick, North Sydney, Northern Beaches, Canterbury-Bankstown, Blacktown and Liverpool, among others. Inner West, Waverley, Woollahra and Sutherland Shire weren't on it. So a cafe in Surry Hills or Manly can ask its council about a certificate, while one in Marrickville or Bondi Beach sits in a council area that didn't report taking part; there, the Food Authority suggests contacting the council or its inspection officer to express interest. Any score on a certificate means the business was free of critical hygiene and food safety issues at that inspection, which is a fair thing to mention on your site.
Footpath tables need council approval. The City of Sydney's outdoor dining approval fixes the area and the hours you can use, and furniture has to come off the footpath outside those hours; venues in Darling Harbour, The Rocks and Barangaroo go to state agencies instead. If your outside tables pack up before the counter closes, the website should say so, because the people asking about outdoor seating are often the ones bringing a dog. The NSW Food Authority's page on animals in food premises sets out the pet dog and assistance animal rules in a few short paragraphs.
Chains carry one extra rule. Under the NSW Government's Fast Choices program, a cafe brand trading under one name with 20 or more outlets in NSW, or 50 or more nationally, and a standard menu must show the average kilojoules of each standard item along with the statement "The average adult daily energy intake is 8,700 kJ". The Food Authority counts webpages, apps and QR-code menus as menus, and the kJ figure has to be shown at least as large as the price. Cafes that only sell food to eat on the premises are exempt, and an independent with a couple of sites is nowhere near the threshold, but a growing group that crosses it needs its online menu to comply as well as the boards above the counter.
Getting around changed in late October 2026 for part of the inner west and south-west. Sydney Metro began services on 30 October 2026 at Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Wiley Park, Punchbowl and Bankstown, replacing the old T3 Bankstown Line. Trains run every four minutes in the weekday peak, and Sydney Metro puts the trip from Marrickville to Gadigal in the city at 12 minutes. Cafes near those stations can now pitch to people coming from the CBD and the north-west, and their directions should name the Metro station and the exit, not the T3.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Sydney businesses by phone and email. Our Sydney clients include Resolve Forward, a family dispute resolution practice, and Western Sydney Stump Grinding; neither is a cafe, and the section below says so. You send your menu, hours and photos, we arrange them into a draft, and you check it on your phone before paying anything.
We haven't built a cafe site yet, so here are our two Sydney clients instead. One shows how much a single page can carry for a business people find on their phones; the other shows an online booking flow, the kind of thing a cafe would use for group tables or weekend sittings.
A family-owned tree service working across Western and Greater Sydney. One page holds the services, a list of areas covered, customer reviews, two quote forms and tap-to-call throughout. A small cafe needs much the same from one page: what you offer, where you are, and one tap to reach you.
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A Sydney family law dispute resolution practice. Its site has six service pages with FAQs, priced packages linked to online booking, a five-step intake form, a contact form and a newsletter signup.
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“Salem created a sleek, professional website for www.resolveforward.com.au with an intuitive and easy-to-use bookings page.”
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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$399
Hours, directions from the nearest station or wharf, a short menu, your outdoor seating and dog policy, and an Order ahead button, all on one page. Suits a coffee cart, a kiosk or a lobby espresso bar.
Our suggestion for most Sydney cafes
$899
A home page with hours and directions, a full menu page with dietary markers, and a third page for office catering, functions or the beans you sell.
$1,499
For a group with venues in different suburbs, each with its own page, or a cafe that also roasts and supplies other Sydney businesses wholesale.
Yes, if you've been awarded one. The NSW Food Authority's guide for businesses says you can promote your score on your website and in your marketing. We'd show the rating near your hours with the month of the inspection and update it after the next one, which is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting. If your council isn't in the scheme, we leave ratings off rather than hint at something you can't get.
Swap any mention of the T3 or Sydney Trains for the Metro station's name, say which exit or street you're closest to, and give the walk in minutes. Now that the city is a short ride away, a line for people coming from Gadigal or Martin Place is worth adding too. We make those edits when you email us.
Only if your cafe belongs to a chain trading under one name with 20 or more outlets in NSW, or 50 or more nationally, with a standard menu that includes takeaway. In that case the NSW Fast Choices rules cover digital menus, your website included. Independent cafes and dine-in-only cafes don't need kJ figures. If you're close to the threshold, read the Food Authority's guide before we lay out the menu page.
If you let dogs sit outside, yes, and it pays to be exact: which tables, whether they must stay on the ground and on a lead, and that they can't stay while the area is closed in for winter. Assistance animals have to be allowed in all customer areas, so we word any "no dogs inside" line to make that clear.
Usually one site with a page for each venue: one domain to look after, one place for the menu, and each venue's hours and map kept separate. The 8-page site at $1,499 has room for three venue pages plus a menu, catering and about page. Separate sites only make sense when the venues trade under different names.
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. Send your menu, opening hours and photos of the place; we arrange them into a draft, you ask for changes until it's right, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your menu, your hours, the nearest station or wharf and a few photos of the place. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au