Beacon Cafe menu website template
Beacon is for the all-day neighbourhood place: a café, a deli or a pub. The menu is the centrepiece, with each item's name, a one-line description and its price, in sections you can rename.
Who Beacon is for
- Cafés, bakeries and all-day kitchens with a menu that moves
- Salons, barbers and studios with a service price list
- Small clinics and practices that need hours, address and a phone number
- Any local business whose visitors arrive on a phone, looking for today
What’s included
- Pages
- 1 page, written and laid out
- Grows with you
- 16 menu-item entries at /menu/ — add one and its index and detail page both update
- Enquiries
- Email and phone links, no form to maintain
- Fonts
- Young Serif and Nunito · light theme
Build Beacon by asking your AI agent
- 1Connect Sitelas to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI agent that supports MCP. How to connect
- 2Ask for it in plain words: “Build a one-page site for my café with the Beacon template: our breakfast, lunch and coffee menu with prices, our opening hours and a link to book a table.”
- 3Open the preview link it sends back, ask for changes, and publish when it reads right.
Then keep changing it from the same chat
- Rewrite the copy“Rewrite every section with my details, in a warmer voice.”
- Change the design“Keep the layout, but swap Young Serif for another typeface and use my brand colours.”
- Add menu item entries“Add three menu item entries from these notes, each with its own page.”
- Swap the photos“Replace the photos with my own.”
Everything here can also be done by hand in the visual editor.
About the Beacon template
Built for neighbourhood cafés and bakeries
A neighbourhood café's customers mostly want to know what's on the menu, what it costs and whether you're open now. Beacon answers those in one scroll, in warm colours that suit a place people come back to.
What's on the page
- The menu, in sections you can rename
- Opening hours and a map link
- Reviews and a photo gallery
- Tap-to-call and email links
Keeping it current
Menu items are a collection, so you reprice a dish in the editor, or ask your AI agent, without touching the layout. There is no form by default; add one if you want messages in your Sitelas inbox.
When to pick something else
Beacon is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
- Caterer quoting weddings and office events per guest, with sample menus — try Chafer
- Fine dining
- Tasting menu
- Ecommerce
- Blog
- Strength or CrossFit gym with coaches, programs and monthly plans — try Kilo
- Animal clinic where pets are examined and treated by vets — try Fetlock
- Pet salon with a menu of baths, clips and puppy trims priced by size — try Lather
- Obedience school with puppy courses, private behaviour lessons and trainer profiles — try Heel
- All-day kitchen serving breakfast, lunch and dinner from one long page with a tabbed menu — try Trivet
Free to use · No credit card required
Key Highlights
Questions about Beacon
Can I change prices without redoing the layout?
Yes. Menu items are a collection, so you reprice a dish in the editor, or ask your AI agent to.
Does it show my opening hours and location?
Yes. Hours, a map link, tap-to-call and email links are built in, along with reviews and a gallery.
Who is Beacon for?
Beacon is for an all-day neighbourhood café that fits on one page: a menu of breakfast, lunch, coffee and drinks with a price on every line, a short story about the place, a photo gallery, reviews, opening hours, the address with a map link, and a button to the reservation service you already use. It also suits a deli, pizzeria or pub whose menu fits in a list. For a coffee shop that wants photos beside its menu and a journal, pick Latte; for a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner from a tabbed menu, with a table-request form, Trivet; for a caterer quoting events per guest, Chafer. There is no online ordering or form: the Order ahead button scrolls to the menu, so point it at your ordering service if you use one, and add a form if you want one.
What pages come with Beacon?
Beacon is a single page with every section already written and laid out. Add more pages whenever you need them.
Can Claude or ChatGPT build my site from Beacon?
Yes. Connect Sitelas to your AI agent and ask for a site that uses Beacon. It fills in your details, sends you a preview link, and publishes when you approve. The same chat can keep running the site afterwards.
Can I change Beacon without code?
Yes. The Young Serif and Nunito type and the menu item entries, every photo and every colour can be changed in the visual editor, or by asking your AI agent.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start, with no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site ($90 a year) for your own domain, analytics and more room.
Guides that use Beacon
How to Build a Website With AI: From a Claude or ChatGPT Chat to a Live Site
How to build a website with AI that actually goes live: the three routes, what to tell the AI first, and real builds in Claude and ChatGPT, then running the site from the same chat.
How to Build a Website With ChatGPT (One That's Actually Live)
Three ways to build a website with ChatGPT: ask for code, use ChatGPT Sites, or add a website app. A real café site built, changed and previewed from a ChatGPT chat, on the free plan.
AI Website Management: Run Your Site From the Chat That Built It
AI website management without a dashboard. The same Claude chat that built your Sitelas site reads the form messages, drafts replies, edits pages and publishes when you approve.
Make Beacon yours
The page opens in the editor already written, with 16 starter menu item entries. Make the words and photos yours, then publish.
Free to use · No credit card required
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