Every week something changes. A dish goes off. Hours shift for a public holiday. A new special arrives. And every week the website quietly falls further behind, because the person who could fix it is busy running the restaurant, not editing HTML. When a customer checks your hours online and finds the wrong ones, or reads a price you stopped charging two years ago, they do not call to ask. They go somewhere else, and sometimes they leave a note about it.

This guide covers what Daviah does to make it easier for your own staff to keep your website and menu current — without technical skills, without calling a developer, and without handing out access to the whole office. It also says plainly where Daviah does not help: the problem of keeping your Google listing, social profiles, delivery aggregators and other external channels up to date is not addressed here. Daviah only covers your own website.

A website that exists before you have done anything

When a restaurant signs up, a website is created immediately from a design built for food and ordering. A front page and pages for your sections are already there, ready to edit. You are not starting from a blank screen or waiting for a developer to hand something over. From the first minute, there is something to work with.

The site stays private until you choose to publish it on a paid plan — so you can take your time getting it right, preview every page through a private link before anyone outside sees it, and only go live when you are satisfied. Nothing expires while you are working.

Editing pages without writing code or calling for help

Pages are built from a library of ready-made sections. Your staff add a section, move it, fill in the text and save — no code, no templates to wrestle with, no developer in the loop. If the hours change, the person who runs the front desk can update the hours page. If a new dish needs a description, whoever manages the menu can write it in.

There are 42 section types to choose from, so a page can carry a photo, a text block, a contact form or whatever the page calls for — each one added by clicking, not by coding.

Your menu on the website, without paying for ordering

A menu can be published on your website on any paid plan, without turning on online ordering and without paying for it separately. That means your Dishes, the choices customers can make, the sections of your menu — all of it can be visible on your own site from the moment you pay for a plan, as a published catalogue for customers to read.

When a Dish changes, your staff update it in the office. When you stop serving something, it comes off. The menu on your website reflects what you have decided to show, kept current by the people who already know what is on.

Giving someone the website role without giving them access to Takings or Staff records

One of the real reasons a website falls out of date is that the only person with access is the owner or general manager — and they have bigger things to do. The answer is to give someone else access, but giving a secretary or a part-time staff member full access to the office means they can see payroll, Takings and everything else.

Daviah has a Website Editor role that lets someone edit the site — pages, text, menus, photos — without seeing the money or the Staff records. You invite them from inside the office, they get their own login, and they can keep the site current without you having to be involved every time something changes. When they leave, you close their access; nothing else changes.

Checking a page before it goes live

Any page that has not been published yet can be previewed through a private link. Your Website Editor can write a new page, send you the preview link to check, and only publish it once you have approved it. Nothing on the public site changes until someone decides to publish.

That means the person doing the editing does not need to be the person making the final call — a useful separation when the owner wants to stay in the loop without doing all the work.

What Daviah does not address

The problem of stale information is not only a website problem. Your Google Business profile, your Facebook page, your listings on delivery aggregators, your entry on booking platforms — all of those can show outdated hours, old menus and wrong prices too. Daviah does not update any of them. The facts here cover your own website only, and if your external listings are out of date, this guide does not help with that.

The connection between outdated information and bad reviews is real, and making your own website easier to update does reduce one source of the problem. But Daviah does not address review management, responding to reviews, or any kind of multi-channel syndication that would push an update from one place to everywhere else at once. Those remain things you manage separately.

Questions

Does the menu on our website update automatically when we change something in the office?

When you update a Dish or a section of your menu in the office, that change is reflected on the website. Your staff make the update once, in the office, and the published menu shows what you have saved.

Can we give our administrator access to the website without her seeing the Takings?

Yes. The Website Editor role lets someone edit the site — pages, sections, text, the menu — without access to Takings, Staff records or anything else in the office. You invite them and they get their own login.

We are on the Website plan. Can we still publish our menu?

Yes. A menu can be published on your website on any paid plan, including the Website plan at $29.99 a month. You do not need to pay for online ordering to show your menu on your site.

Will Daviah also update our Google listing or social media pages when we change something?

No. Daviah only covers your own website. Updates to Google, social media, delivery platforms or any other external channel are not handled here — those remain separate tasks.

What if we want to check a new page before customers see it?

Any unpublished page can be previewed through a private link before it goes live. Your Website Editor can share the link with you to review, and nothing appears on the public site until you publish it.

What does it cost to get to this point?

Signing up is free and asks for no card. You can build and save the whole site on the free plan and view it through a private link. Publishing the site and the menu requires a paid plan — the Website plan is $29.99 a month, or $300 a year.

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