📱 Best Platforms
Creative Market, Etsy, Gumroad
📖 The Hustle
Design a Squarespace 7.1 template specifically for restaurants, cafes, and food trucks. Include menu page layouts with price columns, online ordering integration spots (Toast, Square, ChowNow), Google Maps embed section, reservation link, photo gallery, and an events calendar. Restaurant owners need affordable websites that include online ordering — a $69 template on Squarespace's $23/month plan beats a $3,000 custom site plus $100/month ordering platform.
🚀 First Step
Start a Squarespace trial, choose a blank 7.1 template, and design the homepage with a hero image, 'Order Online' CTA button, menu highlights section, about blurb, and embedded Google Maps location.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Design around Squarespace 7.1 Fluid Engine — templates built for the old layout engine are obsolete and unsupported, and 7.1-only templates have far less competition
- Include integration guide pages for 3 online ordering platforms (Toast, Square, ChowNow) showing exactly where to paste embed codes — restaurants abandon templates when they cannot connect their ordering system
- Create a mobile-first design and show mobile screenshots prominently — 60%+ of restaurant website traffic is mobile, and restaurant owners want to see how their menu looks on a phone
🛠 Tools & Resources: Squarespace trial, Canva, Creative Market, Etsy, Figma