Case Study

Hakka Land

Three cuisines, one menu, one phone call
Hakka Land serves Indian-style Hakka Chinese, Thai and Guyanese food on Kingston Road in Scarborough, for dining in, taking out, delivery and catering. Orders are taken on the phone, so the site has one job: get the menu read and the number dialled.
IndustryRestaurants & Hospitality
ServicesWeb Design & Development
PlatformWordPress, PHP, MySQL +6 more
The Hakka Land website shown on a laptop and a phone
The Challenge
For a restaurant the menu is the product, and this kitchen cooks three of them: Hakka Chinese, Thai and Guyanese. A visitor arrives wanting to know whether the dish they came for is on it. Orders are taken on the phone rather than on the site, which sets a hard limit on what the website should try to do: answer a few questions quickly, then get out of the way.
  • Three cuisines share one kitchen and one menu
  • The menu is the product, so it has to be legible
  • Orders are taken on the phone, not on the site
  • Dine in, take out, catering and delivery all differ
  • The printed takeaway sheet has to stay in step
  • Hours and payment rules get asked before ordering
  • A phone screen has to carry a very long menu
Project Preview

A Look at the Finished Work

Our Solution
The menu exists twice, on purpose. The dine-in menu is laid out as text, so a dish is readable on a phone and can be found in a search; the takeaway menu is the printed sheet itself in a page-turner, with a download, so the kitchen keeps one artwork current and the site follows. Everything else answers a question that comes before an order: the hours, the room, what the lunch special includes.
  • The full dine-in menu as text, not only a PDF
  • Takeaway sheet as a page-turner, with a download
  • Both numbers in the hero, at every screen width
  • Dine in, take out, catering, delivery as four doors
  • Hours and the payment rules stated on the page
  • A map on the location page rather than an address
  • The lunch special on its own page, with its terms
  • An Instagram feed keeps the page current
A page from the Hakka Land website: hakkaland.ca/menu/
  • Menu twice over

    Readable text and printed sheet

  • Number in the hero

    Two lines, one tap on a phone

  • Map, not an address

    A drawn map on the location page

  • Hours up front

    Asked before anything else

Outcomes

What Changed After Launch

  • Searchable dish by dish

    The dine-in menu is real text, so a search for a named dish can land on it. A menu that exists only as a PDF is a picture as far as a search engine is concerned.

  • One artwork to keep current

    The takeaway menu is the printed sheet, shown in a page-turner with a download, so the kitchen updates a single file and the website follows it.

  • The number is always in reach

    Both lines sit in the hero and repeat down the page, which is what a site should do when the order is taken by a person rather than a form.

  • Answers before the order

    Hours, the payment rules, the lunch special terms and a map of the room are all on the page, so a call can start at the order instead of the basics.

Client Feedback

What Hakka Land Says

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Built With a Modern Stack

The platform, languages and tools the finished site runs on.
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How much does a professional website cost?

Cost follows scope rather than page count alone: how many templates need designing, whether you need ecommerce or third-party integrations, and how much of the content we write for you. A brochure site for a local firm and a multi-language store connected to an ERP are very different projects. We scope each one individually and give you a fixed written quote in Canadian dollars — scope, milestones and timeline included — before any work starts, so there are no mid-project surprises.

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A typical business website takes four to six weeks from kickoff to launch. Ecommerce builds usually run six to ten weeks, and custom web applications longer depending on integrations. The biggest variable is not development — it is content and feedback. Projects move fastest when one person on your side can approve copy and design. You get a milestone schedule up front and a staging link you can review at any point.

Can you redesign our existing website without losing our Google rankings?

Yes, and protecting what already ranks is part of the process rather than an afterthought. We audit the current site first — traffic, best-performing pages, backlinks and technical issues — then keep the URLs that already earn visits and build a redirect map for anything that has to change. Content and metadata carry across, and we watch Search Console for the first few weeks after launch so anything unexpected gets caught early.

Will my website work properly on phones and tablets?

Yes. Every site we build is mobile-first: we design the phone layout before the desktop one, because that is where most of your visitors will arrive. We test on real iOS and Android devices as well as in the browser, checking tap targets, form usability, image weight and load time over a mobile connection — not just that the layout reflows. Responsive design is included in every build, never a paid extra.

Can I update the website myself after launch?

Yes. We build on WordPress so editing a page feels closer to editing a document than writing code. At handover you get a walkthrough recorded for your team plus a short written guide covering the things you will actually do: changing text and images, adding pages, publishing posts and swapping a promotion. If you would rather not touch it at all, that is what our maintenance plans are for.

Do you provide hosting and domains?

Yes, we can host your site, and we are equally happy to work with hosting you already have. Our managed setup includes an SSL certificate, LiteSpeed caching, a Cloudflare CDN, daily off-site backups, malware scanning and uptime monitoring. You keep ownership of your domain and DNS either way — so if you ever move providers, the site and its data come with you.

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