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You built it yourself. It worked — until running the site became a second job.

Credit where it’s due: you got a real website live on a generic drag-and-drop builder, during a pandemic or an opening week or both, and it did the job. The problem isn’t what you built. It’s that you’re still the one maintaining it — on top of actually running the restaurant.

Sound familiar?

Changing the menu is a twenty-minute chore

A generic builder doesn’t know what a menu is. Your “menu” is a stack of text boxes you arranged by hand — so a price change means nudging elements around, and adding a dish means re-centering everything below it. Some owners give up and upload a PDF of the menu instead, which is worse: phones have to pinch-zoom it, Google can’t read it, and screen readers can’t either.

The mobile version broke at some point and nobody told you

Most of your guests find you on a phone. Generic builders make you maintain a separate mobile layout — and it silently drifted out of shape after an edit you made months ago. Overlapping text, a photo covering the hours, a button too small to tap. You only see it when a customer mentions it.

You’re the web team now

Updates. The widget that stopped working. The “why is the site slow” question. The domain renewal, the SSL certificate, the contact form that started sending spam. None of this is why you opened a restaurant — but on a DIY builder, all of it lands on you.

Nobody ever made you think about accessibility

The builder never asked you to describe a photo, never warned you that light-gray text on white is unreadable, never checked whether the site works without a mouse. So it doesn’t. Roughly 1 in 4 U.S. adults has a disability — and their first impression of your restaurant is a site they can’t use.

What switching to Remi looks like

You don’t rebuild anything. We take what you made — the words, the photos, the menu, the story — and move it into a site built specifically for restaurants.

  1. Scan your current site — free

    We read your live site the way a screen reader does and show you what fails, who it locks out, and what a rebuilt version looks like. No email required to see it.

  2. We move everything — free

    Menu, photos, pages, hours, reservation and ordering links. Real people do the migration, not an import script you'll have to clean up after. You pay nothing for it, ever.

  3. You review a working preview

    Your new site is fully built before anything changes in public. Click through it, try it on your phone, have your pickiest friend try it. Nothing goes live until you say so.

  4. We repoint your domain. You own everything.

    Same web address, new site underneath. Your domain, your content, your logins, your data — exportable anytime. Cancel the old service when you're ready, not before.

Life on the other side

  • Edit in seconds, from your phone. Change Tuesday’s hours, 86 a dish, post a closure notice — in an editor that knows what a menu and a restaurant are. There’s no layout to break because you’re not dragging boxes; you’re editing content.
  • One layout, always right. Remi themes are designed for every screen size at once. There is no separate mobile view to maintain — or to quietly break.
  • Accessible by default. Every site is built to WCAG 2.2 AA. Alt text is required when you upload a photo. Contrast is handled by the theme, not by your eyeballing. It’s monitored so it stays that way.
  • The web team is us now. Hosting, security, updates, speed — handled. And you still own everything: domain, content, data, all exportable.

The bottom line

You already did the hard part — the content, the photos, the story. We’ll move it into a site that maintains itself.

Start with the free scan: see your current site the way a screen reader reads it, and what the rebuilt version looks like. Migration is free and done for you — most of what you built carries straight over.

Take online orders through Square and your whole site is free — $0/mo, no bill, ever. Dine-in only? $99/mo founding pricing (regular $149), reservations included. Migration is free either way.

Industry context, not legal advice. WCAG 2.2 AA is published by the W3C and referenced by the ADA, Section 508, the European Accessibility Act, and the AODA.