For coffee shops · free to look, pay only to publish

A café site that answers “are you open” before anything else.

It is a quarter to eight, it is raining, and somebody two streets away is deciding between you and the place with the queue. Type your shop name and your town, and we build the page that decides it — hours first, menu second, where you are third. Free to read, and nothing goes live until you say so.

Espresso pouring into a speckled ceramic cup on a worn machine, a steel milk jug steaming beside it and a cinnamon bun on a plate.

§ 01 — what the page has to do

A café is chosen in the ninety seconds before someone leaves the house.

They are not researching you. They are deciding whether to walk. What settles it is whether you are open, whether you have the thing they want, and whether the walk is worth it — and almost every independent coffee shop has all three of those facts locked inside a photograph on a social feed, where they cannot be searched, cannot be read at a glance and cannot be corrected when the roaster changes.

THEY ASK

Are you open right now?

Hours as text, day by day, including the early close on Sundays and the bank holidays. The map listing gets this wrong more often than anyone admits, and a wasted walk is a customer you do not get twice.
THEY ASK

What have you got?

Your menu grouped the way you serve it — coffee, brunch, pastry, whatever the board says — with prices. Written as text, so it is readable at arm’s length and findable by a search.
THEY ASK

Where, and can I ask you something?

Your address, your number one tap from dialling, and a form for the enquiries that are worth money: a big order, a table for twelve, a supplier, someone asking if you do the room on a Sunday.

What is on the page when it opens

Your menu, grouped and pricedCoffee, food, pastry — your groups, your names, a line each and a price. Text, not a photograph of the board.
Opening hours, day by dayIncluding the days and the halves of days you are shut. Readable by a person and by a search engine.
Your address on the pageWritten out, so a search can attach it to you rather than guessing.
A number that dials on one tapA real dialling link, on the first screen and three more times down the page, for the big order and the lost umbrella.
An enquiry form that worksLarge orders, groups, hire, questions — landing in your email.
Local business schema, filled inAddress, hours and every item you list, in the format search engines parse.

Everything above comes from what you type and what you send us. Nothing is written on your behalf — no reviews, no claims about your business, no numbers you did not give us. Build mine — free

Are you open. That is the question. Everything else on the page is the second question.

§ 02 — the proof

Read one that is already finished.

Salt & Sorrel in Providence is built on exactly the layout a coffee shop gets: a grouped, priced menu written as text, hours down to the closed day, an address, a number and a working enquiry form. It is live and it is complete. Ninety seconds of reading tells you more about what you would be buying than anything we could write here.

A hospitality site on a phone: a photograph of the room behind a panel holding the business name, a tagline, a menu button, a phone number and the opening hours. — Salt & Sorrel at 390 pixels wide — read in a doorway, in the rain, one-handed.

DEMO-TABLESalt & Sorrel · demonstration build

The same layout, with somebody else’s menu in it.

Three groups, eight items, a price on each. Change the groups to coffee, brunch and pastry and change the town to yours, and that is your page. This is the honest version of a portfolio: one whole site you can push every button on.

Menu as text, priced
Hours & address
Enquiry form
Mobile-first pages

Open it and read the menu

Here it is, in plain text openhousesites.com/app/for/salt-sorrel-providence-ri Salt & Sorrel is a demonstration business — a restaurant, built to show the same hours, menu and directions a coffee shop gets on its own page. The address is live; the restaurant was invented for the purpose.

Yours gets built the same way, with coffee shops in mind instead of somebody else's trade. Build mine — free

§ 03 — the bill

Starts at

59 US dollars per month

Cancel any time, by email.

$59/moUnited States, Canada and everywhere else

£49/moUnited Kingdom — billed in pounds, not converted

Or pay once — $599, and no monthly fee. $599 is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Twelve months of the monthly plan comes to $708, so paying once keeps $109 in your pocket and leaves nothing to cancel. In pounds: £499 once, against £588 over a year. You choose at the moment you publish, not before.

14 days to change your mind Full refund, no reason required — on one email to contact@openhousesites.com. Back to the card that paid it.

Build my site — free

Nothing is charged while you look. The payment button only appears once your site exists and you have read it.

The finished coffee shop siteBuilt on the layout your trade gets, with your services and your town on it — not a blank template with your name dropped in.
Your contentServices, prices, hours, area served, what you actually do — written on the page, not left as placeholder.
Mobile-first pagesComposed narrow first, because that is the screen your customers are holding.
A contact form that worksMessages land in your inbox. Not in a dashboard you will never log into.
SEO setup and local business schemaSo search engines know what you do, where you are, and when you are open.
Your own domain, hosting and SSLConnected and included on both plans — twelve months of it if you pay once, and for as long as it runs if you pay monthly.

No retainer. No lock-in. After the first year, keep it with us or take it anywhere you like — it is yours. And none of it costs anything until you say publish.

§ 04 — straight answers, for coffee shops

The questions coffee shops actually ask.

Instagram is where our customers are. Is a site not a waste?

Instagram is where your regulars are. A website is where the stranger is — the one who has just moved in, or is visiting for the weekend, and types “coffee” and your town into a phone. Those two audiences do not overlap much, and only one of them is growth.

Our menu moves with the season. How does that work?

Put the shape of it on — the groups and the things that are always there — and keep the specials on the board and the feed, where they belong. One full round of changes is included when you publish, so the version you go live with is the version you actually serve.

We already have a Google Business Profile with our hours.

Good, and keep it up to date, because it is the first thing most people see. It also has a website field, and the site is what fills it. The profile answers “are they open”; the page answers everything after that, in your words rather than in Google’s form fields.

What is the price?

From $59 a month, or £49 in the United Kingdom, and you can cancel any time with one email. Or pay once: $599 — £499 — which covers the first twelve months with no monthly fee. That is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Either way you get your own domain connected, hosting and SSL, the working enquiry form and one round of revisions. Free to look at, and fourteen days after payment to change your mind for a full refund.

§ 05 — not your trade?

Different trade? There is a page for that one too.

Restaurants Menu, hours, address, and a table booked with one thumb. Hair salons The finished salon site, instead of another page editor. Electricians One page for the urgent call and the written quote both.

Whatever you do, the front door is the same one: the Openhouse home page, or type your trade straight into the form and we build from that.

Free to look · pay only to publish

Start with your business name.

That is genuinely the whole thing. Two fields here, your town on the next screen, and we build your cafe site. You read all of it, on your own phone, on your own time — and then you decide whether it is worth $59 a month.