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A website for your café.

People search for a café by the moment they are in: near the station, for a birthday, open now. They need your menu, your hours and a way to reach you.

Who this is for

Cafés, chai places and small eateries that take walk-ins, phone or WhatsApp orders and deliveries, and are found mostly through Google Maps and Instagram.

What your customers search for

In Google’s autocomplete on 30 October 2026, café searches were about the occasion and the place: “cafe in andheri west near station”, “cafe in kandivali east thakur village”, “cafe in ghatkopar for birthday celebration”, “cafe in borivali pure veg”, “cafe in powai for breakfast” and “cafe in bandra open now”. Several areas also showed “cyber cafe” and “gaming cafe”, so the word alone does not always mean what you mean.

On Maps they look at photos, the menu and whether it is open. In an AI assistant they ask for a café for a purpose in an area, and it quotes what it can read: hours, menu items and where you are.

What your website needs

• The menu as text, not only a photo or a PDF. Mark vegetarian and non-vegetarian clearly, because “pure veg” is a search.
• Opening and closing time every day, including late nights and the day you are shut.
• Location the way people say it: near the station, the mall, the lake or the park, with walking directions in a sentence.
• Order on WhatsApp with a message already typed, and your delivery areas if you deliver.
• What you offer for occasions, only if you really do: birthday set-ups, a quiet corner for work, outdoor seating.
• Your FSSAI number in the footer, matching your bill and your board. See the note below.

What your Google Business Profile needs

• Use the name on your signboard, without added keywords.
• Pick the “cafe” kind of category that is true, so you are not mixed up with a cyber or gaming café.
• Menu: Google lets food and drink businesses upload a menu photo or PDF to the profile. Keep the full menu on one page in one photo.
• Photos: the entrance so people can find you, the seating, the food. JPG or PNG, in focus, not heavily filtered.

A note on your FSSAI number

An FSSAI order of 8 June 2021 requires food businesses to print their 14-digit licence or registration number on bills and cash memos, and FSSAI’s display guidelines ask restaurants to show the number prominently at the premises. We found no rule that it must appear on a website. If you send it, we put it in the footer so the website, the bill and the board all match.

What the free preview contains

• A private link with two versions of your website, Basic and Premium. Open it on your phone.
• Built from your Google listing and anything you send: services, hours, photos. We never make up reviews, prices or photos. If you have no photo of your own, the preview uses a type-and-colour look, never a stock picture of someone else’s room.
• Call, WhatsApp and directions in one tap, your hours and a map.
• Your facts written as plain text and as structured data, plus an llms.txt file, so Google and AI assistants such as ChatGPT can read them.

It is free. No card, no call. You only pay if you keep it, and if you say no we delete it.

In your city

• Cafés in MumbaiMumbai café searches use the station, a landmark and an occasion. The more of those your page and listing say in plain text, the more often you match.
• Cafés in Navi MumbaiNavi Mumbai café searches name the mall, the sector or the station. In some nodes they also run into cyber cafés.
• Cafés in ThaneThane café searches sit beside restaurant and lounge searches, and use the station, the estate and the occasion.

Keep going

• What a small business website should haveThe basics, with sources.
• Google Business Profile checklist for IndiaStep by step, with sources.
• Free visibility testSee how Google, answer boxes and ChatGPT read your current website.
• Does my business show up in ChatGPT?A ten-minute, five-question test.
• Schema markup for a local businessThe facts a machine reads, with a copy-paste example.