Restaurants & cafés
A menu that changes, hours that move with the season, and an order button that has to work at seven on a Friday.
We keep your website shipshape.
Before anyone walks in they look you up: your hours, your menu, whether the order button works. We keep all of it shipshape, every week, for one flat price. You run the place. We look after the part people see before they ever walk in.
Look at my listing01 / Always current
Season hours, holiday closures, a new menu, new stock, a phone number that changed. Tell us once and it lands everywhere your customers look.
02 / One flat price
$499 to set you up, once. $149 a month to keep it right, with hosting and your domain included and everything in your name.
03 / From here
St. Petersburg to Fort Myers, by people who eat where you cook. One number, answered by whoever does the work.
Built for how the coast eats and shops
Coverage
Bars & breweries
Live music, trivia night, taproom hours. Posted once, showing on all five listings, taken down when it is over.
Bakeries & coffee
Early hours, sell-outs, holiday orders. The things people ring up to ask, answered before they ring.
Shops & boutiques
Your catalogue stays on Shopify; we never touch it. We keep the storefront around it honest.
Plans
Three whorls
Each whorl wraps the one before it. Whorl I sets you up right and hands you the keys. Whorl II keeps it right. Whorl III runs your front desk. Most storefronts start at Whorl II.
Whorl I
We set you up.
Everything built, everything correct, then it’s yours.
$499 onceNo monthly, no term
- Four-page site, hand-built, on your own hosting
- Google, Apple, Yelp, Facebook and more, corrected
- Ordering and reservations wired in
- Email, Analytics and Search Console set up
- Google and Meta ads accounts built, left paused
- A handoff document for every account
Whorl II
We maintain.
You send the photos. We keep every surface right.
$149 a month12-month plan, or $179 month to month+ $499 setup, once
- Everything in Whorl I, hosted and managed
- Your domain and a branded email, included
- Unlimited edits: hours, prices, menu, photos
- Four posts a month from your photos
- Reviews answered within a week
- Listings synced, site backed up
- A monthly report in plain English
Whorl III
We run it.
Your front desk, run for you.
$249 a month12-month plan, or $299 month to month+ $499 setup, once
- Everything in Whorl II
- Your own customer list and texting number
- A campaign a month, two standing programs
- Missed and after-hours calls answered for you
- Google and Meta ads run, reported weekly
- A weekly report in plain English
$499 setup, once, on every Whorl. Moving up never pays it again.
12-month plan billed monthly, settle anytime and ride out the year. Or month to month after a 3-month start.
Refer a business: 10% of their first year when they sign a 12-month plan, or $50 for Whorl I or month to month. How referrals work
Every plan
- Your domain, email, DNS and every listing are in your name from day one. We host your site while we run it and move it to your own account free when the contract ends.
- Whorl II and III: hosting and your domain are included. Whorl I stays on whatever hosting you have.
- Real content only. AI schedules and coordinates; it never writes your ads or makes your photos.
- We never touch your POS, wifi or hardware.
A whelk works the edge until it opens.
Approach
We'd rather drive over than send you a form. We'll sit down, pull up your site, your Google listing, your socials, all of it, right there on the table, and tell you plainly what's wrong. Including the parts you could fix yourself this afternoon, for nothing.
That's the whelk's trick, more or less. It tastes the water to find a clam buried in the sand, wedges the lip of its own shell between the halves, and keeps at it until the thing gives. Patient, stubborn, gets in.
Then we stay. A whelk only grows at one edge, so nothing gets torn down and started over, the opposite of how most shops do it. Build the site, hand over the keys, move on. It's why half the restaurants on this coast still list last winter's hours.
Where we show up
Service area
We live in Sarasota and work up and down this coast.
The lightning whelk is Florida's state shell, and it coils the opposite way to almost every other sea snail on earth. It is a Gulf animal. So are we.
Contact
Let us pull up your site.
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Give us the name of your place and we will open your website, your Google listing and your socials while we talk, then tell you plainly what is broken, what it would cost to keep it fixed, and what you can go and fix yourself for free.
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