Want this for your restaurant?
You found the seam. Caicos Kitchen is not a real restaurant; it is a working demonstration by ConchShell Designs, a Caribbean web studio. Everything you just used, the menu, the specials, the reservations, would work the same with your name on it. The build, the speed, and the pricing are real.
And no, it is not a template. This concept was designed one of one for a fictional brand, the same way your site would be designed one of one for yours. Your version starts from your name, your dishes, your photos, your hours. Same hands, same standard, different site.
What building this took
- A menu that updates from one file. Every dish, price, and section on this demo renders from a single data file. A price change is one line.
- Specials that change themselves. The Today on the Grill card picked today all by itself. Set seven, forget them.
- Reservations in a book you own. The reserve flow writes into the restaurant’s own Airtable base. Your guests, your data, exportable any day.
- WhatsApp on every button. Tables, takeout, private events, one tap. It is how the island already talks.
- Hours that know the holiday. The notice bar, the open-now chip, the lobster season badge: the site keeps up with island life on its own.
- Fast on island data. This demo scores 95+ on Google’s mobile performance tests. Slow sites lose hungry people.
What it costs
Seven pages, one working reservation engine, the copy drafted, the mechanics wired: that inventory is our Growth build. This demo actually over-delivers the tier on purpose; we would rather show you the ceiling than the floor.
$2,800 to build, then $150/month to run and look after
Prefer nothing big up front? $430 a month for twelve months, then $150. Restaurants run on weekly cash; we price like we know that.
A simpler menu-and-hours site starts at $1,800. Live in about four weeks from the day we have your answers and your photos.
Add-ons restaurants actually use
- WhatsApp reminder desk, $400 + $60/mo. One-tap reminders that cut reservation no-shows; the empty-table killer.
- Careers page, $125. The hiring line, grown up: one page that catches the line cook you are short every season.
- Extra pages, $125 each. A catering menu, a second location, the events yard with its own gallery.
Who owns what
Your domain is registered in your name and stays yours. Your reservations land in your own base, never a third party's. Your content, your photos, your guests: yours. If we ever part ways, you keep all of it, and the cost of taking the code with you is written into the agreement before you sign. No lock-in games.
You run a kitchen, not a website
That is the point of the care plan. WhatsApp us the change, "Tuesday special is stewed oxtail now", and it is live within two business days; two updates a month are included, and a broken site gets same-business-day attention. The monthly fee also covers hosting, security, and the padlock. You never touch code, and you never email a guy who moved to Miami.
Prices in USD from the current ConchShell Designs rate card. Before any money moves you get a plain-language agreement you can read in ten minutes. Caicos Kitchen and Grill is a demonstration restaurant, not a real business.