The challenge
The International Restaurant has served Bradford from Morley Street since 1976. We designed and built their WordPress website, with a branch switcher, a full online menu, table bookings and direct online ordering through Flipdish.
The International Restaurant is a Bradford restaurant client that opened on Morley Street in 1976 and now also runs a Flagship branch on Sticker Lane. We designed and built their website. It needed to do the everyday jobs a busy restaurant website has to do: show the menu, take table bookings, take orders for collection or delivery, and answer the questions people ask before they visit. It also needed to make sense for a business with two branches that keep different hours and take different phone numbers.
A restaurant with more than one site has a problem most single sites do not. A customer who lands on the wrong branch can ring the wrong number, turn up at the wrong time or try to order from a kitchen that does not offer it. At the same time, both branches share a name, a story and most of a menu, so two unrelated websites would split that history in half. The website had to keep the shared brand together while making it clear, on every page, which branch you are looking at.
A branch switcher on every page
Every page carries a "Change Branch" control in the header. The Morley Street site sits on the main domain and the Flagship branch has its own subdomain, each with its own address, phone number and opening hours in the header and footer. Morley Street opens from 4:30pm and runs late at the weekend; the Flagship branch opens from 5pm. Showing the right hours next to the right address saves the calls and wasted journeys that mixed-up details cause.
The two sites share the same structure: home, about, menu, catering, gallery, FAQ and contact. Someone who knows one can find their way around the other straight away.
Ordering direct through Flipdish
The Morley Street site has "Order Online" in the main menu and an "Order Now" button in the header, both linking to the restaurant's own Flipdish ordering page. Flipdish is an ordering platform built for restaurants, so the restaurant gets a proper online ordering system without us building a payments and menu engine from scratch.
The reason to put ordering front and centre on the restaurant's own site is simple. When customers order direct rather than through a marketplace app, the restaurant keeps the customer relationship and the order sits under its own name. The Flagship site leaves ordering out of its navigation and leads with table bookings instead. [RESULT: direct online orders per week]
Connecting a site to an ordering or booking platform is a regular part of our integrations work.
A menu people and search engines can read
The menu page lists the whole menu as text on the page, not just as an image. That runs from meat, vegetarian and seafood appetisers through the special grills, karahis, baltis, biryanis and Punjabi desi dishes to rice, sundries and a kids menu, with prices and short descriptions. For anyone who wants a copy, there is a "Download Menu" button for the full PDF.
Text matters here. A menu saved only as an image or PDF is hard to read on a phone and gives search engines very little to work with. Dishes listed as text can be found by someone searching for a particular dish in Bradford, which is the thinking behind our SEO and AI search work.
Bookings and enquiries that arrive sorted
The "Book a Table" page uses a form built around how the restaurant works. Time slots run in half hours from 16:30 to 23:00, party sizes go up to 20 with a "more than 20" option for larger groups, and there is a field for special requests. "Book Now" sits in the header on both branches, so booking is one tap from anywhere on the site.
The contact form asks people to choose the nature of their enquiry: general, catering, complaint, press or other. That small step means messages arrive already sorted, so a catering request is not buried among general questions. Catering also has its own page, with a dedicated email address and the restaurant's phone number for anyone planning an event.
Telling a story that started in 1976
The About Us page tells the restaurant's own story in its own words: opening on Morley Street in 1976, the loyal following it built in Bradford, a refurbishment and new dishes alongside long-standing favourites. The homepage links to it under "Our Story", next to the gallery of photos from the restaurant. For a business with that much history, the website should make the most of it rather than look like any other takeaway page.
The site is built on WordPress with Elementor, so the restaurant's team can update menus, hours and photos without waiting on a developer. That is how we approach WordPress development for hospitality clients. If you run a restaurant with one site or several, see our work for hospitality and restaurants, or get in touch.