Starting point
A small website for a coffee shop and its regulars
Five drinks, four pastries, prices, and one email box — no dining starting point the website builder hands a café owner is shorter, and that is the argument for it. A coffee shop’s site has one job on a phone: say what is on today and where you are, before the queue moves.
Shown in the Ember design style — one of 15 you can switch between; your business content carries over.
The shortest site in the dining set, on purpose
A café does not need six pages; it needs a menu that loads and a door people can find. So the whole build is eight sections across four pages, fewer than any other dining starting point lays out: two menu groups, nine items, and a newsletter box wired to a first-visit discount code. The reviews module is deliberately left off, so the praise on the home page is text you paste in rather than a feed you moderate.
What the sample site comes with
Two menu sections holding nine priced items, a newsletter signup, three typed testimonials, one discount code, and four pages.
Anything on that list that takes something from a visitor or reads from a live schedule — a form, a booking, a coupon code, a subscribe box, a class timetable, a listing fed by a collection — goes online with Storefront Pro. Storefront publishes the rest of the page exactly as you built it; where this template gives one of those a page of its own, that page is the one that waits for the upgrade.
What the site covers
- Item photos
- Menu
- Newsletter
4 pages included
- Home
- Menu
- Pickup
- Contact
What is in scope, and what stays in your own systems
Four pages, nine priced items and one email box is the whole build, and that is the argument — a cafe site that finishes loading before the queue moves. Loyalty programs and coffee subscriptions stay outside it. Testimonials are static text, so replacing one is an edit rather than an approval queue.
Every count and price on this page was read out of the template itself rather than written by hand, which is why the numbers match the site you actually get.
What you get when you publish it
- Your own domain, hosting and HTTPS on the published site — not a subdomain of ours.
- Card payments run through your own Stripe account. Naratake takes 0% commission on the sale; only Stripe’s own card fee applies.
- Storefront Pro downloads the whole project as a standard Next.js app, so the site can be self-hosted with Naratake switched off.
- Building and previewing is free with no card. Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year; Storefront Pro — which is where ordering and bookings go live — is $79 a month or $758 a year. The first payment is refundable in full within 7 days.
Questions people actually ask
Newsletter is on this start point's feature list. Where does a subscriber's address go?
Into your customer list, with the marketing opt-in set. The homepage carries a subscribe box under the testimonials — "First taste of new roasts, one email a month" — and the footer carries a second one; both post to the same place, so a repeat submission updates the existing record instead of creating another. A first-time opt-in gets a welcome email that confirms the subscription, includes your active signup-reward coupon when one is set, and closes with your postal address. A subscribe box takes something from a visitor, so it goes live on Storefront Pro.