Raasa Restaurant Landing Page

Challenge

It turned a mismatched theme demo into a clean launch page before the restaurant opened. Raasa is an Indian restaurant in Locksbottom, Orpington. It needed a presence online before opening so that early customers could find it, read about the kitchen and leave an email address. The agency had a horizontal-scroll theme demo that did not fit a restaurant, and the deadline was the next morning. The brief was simple but tight: one page, live on the real domain, by the time the client checked in.

Approach

Elementor was the right tool for a page that had to exist by morning and that the agency would edit later. Keeping WordPress rather than a static page meant the site could grow into a full restaurant site, with menus and bookings, without migrating again. Removing WooCommerce and the unused theme parts kept the page light. That matters for a site most people open on a phone while deciding where to eat. Later in 2025 I installed Google Tag Manager so the agency could add analytics and tracking without further code changes. I added opening hours to the footer once the restaurant had fixed them.

Solution

On 8 and 9 April 2025 I converted the demo into a one-page landing. It has a hero, an About Raasa section with the head chef's biography, a menu teaser, an email sign-up and a map. Converting the demo meant fixing the theme breakage that came with removing its horizontal scroll. I stripped the sections that did not apply and rebuilt the remaining ones as a vertical page. I also removed the unused WooCommerce install the demo had brought along. It had no place on a coming-soon page and only added weight and attack surface. The same night I migrated the page from staging to the live domain, so the restaurant woke up with a working site on its own address.

Results

The page is live at raasarestaurant.co.uk. The restaurant had an online presence before opening day, collected sign-ups from the start and now has a WordPress base that can be extended as the business grows. It was a small project, but a good example of turning a mismatched theme into a clean launch page under time pressure. Knowing what to delete is often the fastest route to a finished site.

Opening a restaurant and need a launch page by a fixed date? Tell me the date and I will reply with a plan.