A better website for your Hawaii restaurant or food truck
Keep your menu, hours, today's location and sold-out items up to date yourself — from your phone, in seconds — without calling a developer.
📍 Built and supported in Kapolei, Oʻahu — Swiss-trained engineer, island neighbor. Not an overseas template mill.
From $399 setup + $19/mo · live in about two weeks · see two sites I built →
Your food truck moves. Your website should too.
Update where you're parked, today's hours, the menu and what's sold out from your phone — and the website follows about a minute later. No developer, no WordPress, no "I'll post it on Instagram and hope they see it."
- Your site shows each day's spot. On the demo, Saturday says Ka Makana Aliʻi, Kapolei.
- Open the portal on your phone, type the new spot, tap Save. That's the whole job.
- About a minute later, the website says Kūhiō Beach, Waikīkī. Nobody drives to the wrong lot.
Same for a dish that runs out: flip it to Sold out in the menu and the site shows that next to it until you flip it back. And that's the real portal, screenshotted, further down — no mock-ups.
- Today's spot — a different one for every day of the week, with a map link
- Hours — the regular week, plus a day off or a holiday set ahead of time
- The menu — prices, photos, a Friday-only special
- Closed for today, sold out for today — one tap from behind the counter, back to normal tomorrow by itself
- An announcement bar — "Cash only today", shown until the date you pick
- Events & pop-ups — a night market with its own time and place, or live music every Friday entered once
- Your links — DoorDash, Instagram, wherever people already find you
Who it's for
Trucks & stands
Your location changes. Your website keeps up — today's spot, sold out, closed for rain — from your phone, in seconds.
See what it does for food trucks →Restaurants
Menus with sizes and dietary tags, hours, reservations, a Japanese menu for visitors — and Google finding you.
See what it does for restaurants →Other small businesses
Anything with opening hours and a list of what you offer. Tell me what you do and I'll say honestly whether it's a fit.
See what every site gets →Built for Hawaii food businesses
Everything a local restaurant, truck or stand actually needs from a website — nothing it doesn't
Not a food business? The same setup fits any small business with opening hours, a list of what you offer, and customers searching nearby — and I'll adjust the portal to whatever yours actually needs to change. Tell me what you do and I'll say honestly whether it's a fit.
Mobile-Friendly Menu & Hours
Most diners check your website on their phone before they ever call. A clean, fast, mobile-first design means they find your hours, menu, and location in seconds — not frustration.
Online Reservations & Ordering
Integrate with the reservation or ordering platform you already use (or I'll help you pick one), so guests can book a table or place an order straight from your site.
Google Business Profile & Local SEO
Show up when people nearby search "[your cuisine] near me." I set up and optimize your Google Business Profile alongside your site so local search actually works for you — category, service area, hours, photos, and a printable QR code for your review page.
One part I can't do for you: Google's final check is a short video recorded at your business, and it has to be you on camera. I'll walk you through it.
Bilingual & Multilingual Menus
With visitors from Japan such a big part of Hawaii's tourism, a Japanese-language menu can open the door to guests who'd otherwise walk right past — and I can add other languages too (Korean, Chinese, Tagalog, and more) to match your customers.
Online Gift Cards & Merch
Sell gift cards or branded merchandise directly through your site — a simple way to add revenue without adding much overhead.
Ongoing Maintenance & Support
Website updates, security patches, and small content changes handled for you — so you can focus on the food, not the website.
See It Live
Two demo sites I built to show what you'd get — a food truck that parks somewhere different every day, and a sit-down restaurant taking reservations. Same engine underneath, deliberately different looks. Both are real, live sites you can click through.
Aloha Plate Kitchen
Built for a business that moves. Today's spot shows on the homepage, and the owner changes it from their phone.
- A different location for each day of the week
- Ordering link straight to DoorDash
- Pop-up events with their own hours
Hale Kai Restaurant
One address, a full menu, and reservations — dressed for dinner service rather than a lunch line.
- Reservations through OpenTable
- Menu categories, plus a printable version
- Two extra languages, switchable in the header
Both are demonstration sites with made-up businesses and menus — I'm not going to put someone else's restaurant on my page without asking. Your site starts from the same foundation, in your colors, with your content.
And this is what you'd log into
Both demo sites are edited through this. No WordPress, no plugins, no theme to learn — a short list of the things a restaurant actually changes, and a Save button. It works on a phone, so tonight's sold-out dish can be marked sold out from behind the counter, and the site shows it within about a minute.
- Menu items, prices & photos
- Menu categories & ordering
- Your links (DoorDash, OpenTable, socials)
- Opening hours & holiday hours
- Locations, for a business that moves
- Events & pop-ups
- Support messages straight to me
- A log of every change, so nothing gets lost
- A login for each of your staff — free
This list is built around what a food business changes, but the portal is my own software — not a plugin I'm stuck with. If your business tracks appointment slots, classes, rooms, or a rotating inventory instead of a menu, I can build that in rather than telling you it isn't possible. Tell me what you'd need to change every week and I'll say straight whether it's a fit.
How It Works
Four steps. About two weeks from the day your content lands in my inbox — the timeline is really set by how fast you can send me your menu and photos, not by the build.
A short call
Twenty minutes, in person around Kapolei or on the phone. You choose how much you want to do yourself — Basic, Managed or Portal — I tell you what it costs, and if a website isn't actually your problem right now, I'll say that too.
Free, no obligationYou send your content
Menu, photos, logo, hours, and anything you want said about the place. A phone photo of a printed menu is fine — I'll type it up.
Day 1I build it, you look at it
You get a real link to click through on your own phone, not a picture of a design. Tell me what to change and I change it.
Week 1Go live
I point your domain at it, set up your Google listing if you asked for that, and walk you through your portal so you can keep it current yourself.
About week 2
Get a Ballpark Estimate
Pick what you're interested in and get a rough price range in seconds.
Step 1 of 2 — Pick the package that fits
Curious what the Portal login actually looks like? See it in action above. The monthly shows with your total in step 2, any setup can be paid over 6 months at 0% interest, and you can compare all four side by side. Start with Basic or Managed and move up to Portal later — same site, no rebuild, $100 more in setup.
Step 2 of 2 — Add anything else you need
Rough estimate, not a binding quote — final pricing is confirmed after we talk. The design and code stay mine until the setup is paid and the first 12 months are up, then the site is yours to take anywhere; anything you give me (menu, photos, logo) is always yours. Hawaii GET is included in every price.
Let's Work Together
Tell me about your place and what you need — a menu that's out of date, no site at all, or one that doesn't work on a phone. I read every message myself and reply within one business day. Leave a number and I'll call you back instead.
Or reach out directly:
About
Hi, I'm Tobias. I moved to Oʻahu from Switzerland, where I spent over ten years building enterprise software in C# and React — the kind of work where "it mostly works" isn't an acceptable answer. Merki Tech is what happens when that standard meets a neighborhood kitchen: Swiss precision in how the site is built, island practicality in what it actually needs to do.
Which mostly means I'm here. In Kapolei. You can meet me in person, point at your menu board, and tell me what's wrong with your website over coffee — I'm not a mainland agency, not an overseas contractor guessing at what Hawaii businesses need, and not someone who disappears once the invoice clears.
Based in Kapolei, I work with restaurants, food trucks and market stalls across ʻEwa Beach, Waipahu, Honolulu and the rest of Oʻahu. Here's what that means for a west-side business.