Websites for Irish Pubs & Restaurants

A couple drives into Carrick-on-Shannon on a Friday evening. They want a pub with food and maybe live music. They Google it. Three pubs show up with websites - hours, menus, photos. Yours doesn't. They pick one of the three.

It's not just tourists. The family checking if you serve food on Sundays. The lad looking for where the trad session is tonight. The woman trying to find your number to book a table for twelve. If the answer isn't on Google in ten seconds, they move on.

A dead Facebook page last updated in 2019 is worse than nothing. It tells people you've closed down.

You don't need a fancy website. You need your hours, your menu, your phone number, and your music schedule - somewhere people actually look. That's what we build.

Ten years ago, people asked a local for a recommendation. Now they ask Google. Failte Ireland reports that over 80% of overseas visitors research online before deciding where to eat and drink. If your pub doesn't appear, you're invisible to every tourist and every new resident who hasn't built a network yet.

Social media isn't enough. Facebook throttles business page reach unless you pay for ads. Instagram works for city bars with a marketing budget, not for a family pub in Leitrim. And neither platform gives you control over what people see first - your hours, your menu, your phone number. A website does.

The pubs that already have websites are getting those calls. There's no trick to it - they just show up when someone searches, and you don't. The longer you wait, the more that gap compounds.