A hand-drawn film. A Texel sheep tells the story: tickets pile up in a busy kitchen and EMBER Web Studio builds a system with a kitchen screen, scale, waste log and till. Hungry tourists cannot find a café online, EMBER Web Studio builds its website, and they find it after all.

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EMBER Web Studio: websites and restaurant systems on Texel

Guests who find you. A kitchen that stays calm when every ticket lands at once. I build the website and the system behind it for restaurants, cafés and shops on Texel, and I’m a cook myself, so I know what a Saturday night feels like. Does it work? Start with my own place.

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My own kitchen runs on it

EMBER is my takeaway on Texel. It delivers, too. Everything below I built myself, and I use it every day: at the counter, on the tablet, on my phone. If I offer it to you, it already runs at mine.

  • embertexel.nl: the menu, ordering for pickup or delivery, payment by iDEAL or card. No ordering platform in between, so no platform commission.
  • A new order? A chime, and it’s on the screen at the counter.
  • My own till. At closing I count the drawer, enter the card tips and get the day report as a PDF. The quarterly VAT overview comes out of the same numbers.
  • Scan a supplier invoice, press one button: purchase booked, PDF filed, stock updated.
  • Recipes with cost prices, HACCP lists I can print for the food inspectors (NVWA), and staff hours.
  • An app for the delivery driver.
  • And an AI assistant that works on the menu, recipes and stock. It suggests, I approve.
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But first a guest has to find you. And they’re still on the ferry.

be found

On the ferry over, out come the phones and they type ‘food texel’. If you’re not in that list, you don’t exist. They drive straight past.

websites

Menu, opening hours, photos and how to get there, in Dutch, English and German, because a lot of your guests are German. It loads fast, even on one bar of signal at the beach. And it shows up on Google Maps, right where they look.

landing pages

Sometimes there’s just one thing to say. The new seasonal menu. A summer job. You get one page with one button, and you can see what it brings in. Once that works, the next problem shows up: the orders. All at once.

your business in hand

Saturday, half six. Three orders online, two at the till, and the phone’s ringing. That’s not the moment to go looking for anything. I build the systems around how your kitchen works, not the other way round.

a system for your restaurant

Website, till, phone: it all lands on one kitchen screen. New, cooking, done. Everyone can see it. Tickets on the floor? Gone.

ai in your kitchen

A pile of invoices from the wholesaler? One photo each. The AI reads the lines, and one button puts the purchase, the PDF and the stock in the books. That’s how I do it at EMBER. It’s the job you’d otherwise be doing at the kitchen table at eleven at night.

haccp and costings

Recipes with cost prices, mise en place and HACCP lists, on a tablet or phone in the kitchen. When the inspector turns up, you print the lists. How does your chef write recipes down today? That’s how I’ll build it.

waste and shrinkage

Whatever goes in the bin goes on the scale first. You see it in grams and in euros, and tomorrow you know what to prep less of. Till, stock, waste, hours: four separate things? Watch what happens when they know each other.

all of it, connected

An order on the website shows up on the kitchen screen, takes the stock down and is there in the day’s close that night. Nobody types anything twice. You sit in the middle. Pick the pieces you want; starting with just a website is fine. What does it cost? Honest answer below.

Three ways to start

I don’t have a price list. A ten-table eetcafé isn’t a beach pavilion. After we’ve met you get a written quote, and that price holds.

A website

You want to be found. That’s it.

  • Menu, opening hours, photos, directions
  • Dutch, English, German
  • Quick on a phone, findable on Google Maps
  • Domain and hosting: sorted
Price on request
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Website with ordering

Your own ordering site, no platform in between. So no commission to the likes of Thuisbezorgd.

  • Everything in the website
  • Pickup or delivery, ordered online
  • Payment by iDEAL or card
  • Every order on a screen in your place, with a chime
Price on request
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Your own system

For places running on a notebook, a spreadsheet and three apps that don’t talk to each other.

  • You tell me how you work, I build that
  • Till, stock, costings, HACCP, hours: take your pick
  • AI that reads your supplier invoices
  • Linked to your website and orders
Price on request
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It’s all yours

Every client gets their own folder and their own Google account, set up on day one. Everything goes in there. At the end you get the whole package:

  • The domain, or domains, paid up and in your name
  • The Google account it all hangs off
  • Every login and password
  • The folder with everything I built for you

Want to switch to another developer one day? Hand them the folder and they can start the next morning. So how do I know what goes in that folder? I come and watch.

How I work

  1. i visit

    I come by on Texel, ideally on a busy night. I watch your kitchen run, from the first ticket to the last pan. An hour of service shows more than any meeting.

  2. i talk to everyone

    Then I talk to the people who work there: the chef, the cooks, the bookkeeper, anyone you like. Each of them gets the tool for their own job. A cook at seven o’clock wants to see something very different from your bookkeeper at the end of the quarter.

  3. sketch, then build

    First on paper, with the same blue pen as the film. This site started that way too. Then I build in short pieces, and after each one you steer.

  4. live, and after

    Live. You get the folder with every key, and I’m still around for a new menu or a new idea. Why would a cook do all this?

Why a cook builds this

Because I needed it myself, in my own kitchen. The short version:

  1. saturday, half seven. i’m at the pan and the tickets just keep coming.
  2. somewhere between two orders i thought: why am i still writing this by hand?
  3. the idea was small. whatever comes in should land in the right place by itself.
  4. so i learned to code. next to the kitchen, one piece at a time.
  5. now ember runs on it. the screen chimes, the till keeps count. i cook.
  6. and now i build it for other kitchens on texel. yours too, maybe?
  7. yaroslav, ember web studio

Is something in your place a pain right now? Tell me, one sentence is enough, even if you can’t quite say yet where it pinches. Questions first? They’re just below.

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Questions people ask

Who owns it all: the website, the domain, the accounts?

You do. Every client gets their own folder and their own Google account. At the end you get the paid-up domain in your name, every login and password, and the whole folder.

What if I want another developer to take over later?

Then they can. You hand them the folder and the passwords, and they pick up where I left off. You’re not tied to anything, me included.

What does a website cost, and is there a monthly fee?

It depends on what you need, so it’s on request. The quote lists the build, hosting, domain and upkeep separately, so you know your monthly cost before you start.

Do I pay commission on every order?

Not to an ordering platform: the ordering site is yours. What you do pay are the normal transaction fees for iDEAL and card payments to the payment provider.

What happens after launch?

I stay around and keep the site updated and secure. New menu, different hours? Send it over and I’ll put it in.

Will my staff use it too?

Yes, and they help build it. I sit down with the chef, the cooks, the bookkeeper or whoever else works there, and each of them gets what their own job needs. What the cook sees on the tablet, your bookkeeper never has to.

Do I need to supply photos and texts?

No, it doesn’t all have to be ready. We write the texts in three languages together. Photos are the one thing I’m strict about: I think a good photo of your plate does more than any sentence on the site. We’ll see what you already have.

Which languages?

Dutch, English and German, the languages you hear at the counter on Texel. Another language is possible too.

What about privacy and the GDPR?

I build without trackers or ad cookies and keep only what’s needed. The privacy statement says what your site does, and nothing more. Question not on the list? Ask it below.

let’s meet

Tell me in a few sentences what kind of place you run and where it pinches. One sentence is fine too. I’m happy to come by on Texel, and you’ll usually hear back the same day.

I only use your details to reply to you. More in the privacy statement.

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