11 real assets · WordPress
- 11 real assets but most are 4-5MB menu PNGs (their menus are images, not text)
- 40-year heritage (Dec 1985)
- 3 London locations: North/South/West
- House beer partnership w/ Forked River
- DM Serif Display + Public Sans · coastal heritage navy
11 real assets · WordPress
- Real site returns 403 to scraping (anti-bot)
- Full live menu lives on third-party onlineordering.tech
- Real ordering URL preserved
- Bowlby One SC + Plus Jakarta Sans · pizza-shop tomato/basil/parm with checker pattern + ticker
8 real assets · Squarespace
- Established 1990 (real)
- Real site is mostly empty (just "Party Trays Available" banner)
- Spectral + Be Vietnam Pro · newspaper editorial w/ proper Vietnamese diacritics
Tier A IG @kippslanefish WordPress Live
11 real assets · WordPress
- Real menu prices pulled (Haddock $13.45, Big John $14.95, Fryday $5.95)
- Family-owned since 1972 = 53-year heritage
- Real wait times: 25-50min pickup, 40-75min delivery
- Old Standard TT + IBM Plex Sans · British chip-shop newsprint cobalt + vinegar gold
Tier A HighLevel / FileSafe Live
11 real assets · HighLevel / FileSafe
- 11 real assets but mostly menu graphics/photos from HighLevel CDN
- 4 nav pages real site (Home/Menu/Catering/About)
- Marcellus + Mulish · Iraqi tile + gold seam motif
Tier A IG @merlamae Squarespace Live
11 real assets · Squarespace
- Squarespace charges $23-36/mo
- 13-item nav on real site
- Bebas Neue + Nunito · retro Americana awning + ticker
11 real assets · Wix
- REBUILT after first version was generic. Direction "The Counter Spread"
- 7 routes inc. /catering/ AND /franchising/ (their real franchise operation)
- Real Mealsy ordering URL preserved
- Yeseva One + Sora · pomegranate/olive/tahini/ember palette w/ wax-seal motif and apron-string ribbon dividers
Tier A Custom (takerestaurant.com) Live
27 real assets · Custom (takerestaurant.com)
- Real photos of Private Booth + interior pulled from their site
- 7 routes inc. /private-booth/
- Sumi & Saffron · Shippori Mincho + Manrope
Tier A Web.com / edit.site Live
7 real assets · Web.com / edit.site
- CRITICAL: real site has casino spam injected in footer
- Menu locked in 3 PDFs
- No online reservations
- Libre Baskerville + Source Sans 3 · British pub broadsheet
Tier B GoDaddy Site Builder Live
2 real assets · GoDaddy Site Builder
- Only 2 real assets (hero + logo). Typography-driven design.
- Real taglines used verbatim: "Keeping it Cheesy Since 2011" + "You wanna pizza this?"
- 10-category menu (real categories from their site)
- Carter One + Inria Sans · diner-sign barn red/mustard/slate/cream w/ tilted sign-cards and box-shadow hover
1 real assets · DiDevelop
- Only 1 real asset (logo). Typography-driven, wordplay-forward.
- REAL menu prices for 5 best sellers (Fuh Special Beef Pho $19.95, Rare Beef Pho $16.95, etc.)
- Honest framing: their online ordering is currently disabled
- Fraunces + Be Vietnam Pro · midnight/jade/bone/tangerine palette w/ phonetic /fʊʔ/ as recurring motif
Tier B IG @mexicactusbarandgrill WordPress Live
4 real assets · WordPress
- Real online ordering URL (order.online integration) preserved
- Family-owned May 2008 by Mr. and Mrs. Flores (real)
- Bricolage Grotesque + Karla · Mexican color blocking + serape stripes
Tier B IG @mintleavesindiankitchen WordPress Live
3 real assets · WordPress
- Pulled FULL real menu (80+ items with prices) from their site
- 6 real customer reviews quoted verbatim
- Antic Didone + Outfit · charcoal/saffron/mint editorial
1 real assets · Sociavore
- 1 real asset. SCVR subdomain (scvr.co) on Sociavore.
- 1050 Kipps Lane Unit 5 location
- Khand + Switzer · scoreboard hero + field-stripe accent on field green
Tier B IG @spdlondon Squarespace Live
2 real assets · Squarespace
- Squarespace charges $23-36/mo
- Real PDF menu URLs preserved (breakfast, lunch)
- 63 Clarke Road location
- Anton + Krub · auto-shop diner palette w/ caution-tape stripes and rivet-card borders
4 real assets · WordPress
- Real Mealsy online ordering URL preserved
- Family-owned since 1996 (real)
- Newsreader + Be Vietnam Pro · family album w/ rotated photo tape effect
3 real assets · WordPress
- Real story preserved: 5th restaurant of Wing & Alex Leung, Hong Kong couple opening London restaurants since 2006
- 6 menu categories taken verbatim from real site
- Real Mealsy ordering URL kept
- Tuesday-closed warning surfaced in hero/contact/footer (real site duplicates the hours block)
- Frank Ruhl Libre + Mona Sans · lacquer red/lantern gold/bone/ink editorial Chinese restaurant
Tier C No real photos Domain parked (no live site) Live
0 real assets · Domain parked (no live site)
- ZERO real assets. bamyan.ca currently shows a parking page
- Built from cuisine knowledge only (kebab, qabili palaw, mantu, ashak, bolani)
- Cormorant Infant + Hanken Grotesk · cliff-country palette (limestone, saffron, Hindu-Kush blue)
- Upgrade page leans hard on the parking-page issue
Tier C No real photos Domain redirects offsite Live
0 real assets · Domain redirects offsite
- ZERO real assets. beladis.com 301-redirects to an unrelated newslati.com page
- Built from cuisine knowledge (Mediterranean bakery + shawarma grill split)
- Caprasimo + DM Sans · cream/terracotta/olive/almond palette w/ awning stripes and stitched-bakery cards
- Upgrade page leans on the broken-redirect issue
Tier C No real photos Custom PHP (no HTTPS, no mobile) Live
0 real assets · Custom PHP (no HTTPS, no mobile)
- ZERO real assets. fasteddies.ca is a 2010-era PHP page with no SSL
- Local burger chain since 1987, multi-location
- 6 routes inc. /locations/
- Monoton + Albert Sans · midnight + burger-orange + mustard w/ enamel-sign cards and highway-dash dividers
Tier C No real photos Domain offline (separate Square ordering) Live
0 real assets · Domain offline (separate Square ordering)
- ZERO real assets. kingsbbq.ca refuses connection
- Cantonese roast counter (char siu, roast duck, soy chicken) on Adelaide North
- Real Square ordering page exists separately
- Noto Serif TC + Onest · cantonese-red/bronze/parchment w/ traditional Han characters as recurring motif
Tier C No real photos Broken SSL (browsers warn before loading) Live
0 real assets · Broken SSL (browsers warn before loading)
- ZERO real assets. pholeerestaurant.ca throws SSL cert errors
- Independent Vietnamese-Thai on Adelaide North
- DM Serif Text + Be Vietnam Pro · broth-amber/ginger/green w/ proper Vietnamese diacritics
- Two cuisines told side-by-side, ginger and green color-coded
Tier C No real photos UENI Live
0 real assets · UENI
- ZERO real photos used (UENI gallery is empty)
- 272 Google reviews lifted to homepage
- "Powered by UENI" watermark in their real footer
- Big Shoulders Display + Lexend · typography-driven, no stock food photos
Tier C No real photos Legacy domain (offline) Live
0 real assets · Legacy domain (offline)
- ZERO real assets. londonvietnamesefood.ca is a generic legacy URL, currently offline
- Independent Vietnamese on Huron Street west London
- Faustina + Be Vietnam Pro · bamboo/plum/rice/ember w/ proper diacritics
- Upgrade pitches name + domain replacement
Tier D No prior site No website (Google Maps only) Live
0 real assets · No website (Google Maps only)
- NO PRIOR WEBSITE. Long-running Canadian diner on Huron Street known for buffets
- Bagel Fat One + Figtree · formica-cream/booth-teal/butter-yellow placemat aesthetic
- Built from name+cuisine only — diner classics, all-day breakfast, buffet menu
- Upgrade pitches first-website value at $0 monthly
Tier D No prior site No website (Instagram + delivery apps only) Live
0 real assets · No website (Instagram + delivery apps only)
- NO PRIOR WEBSITE. Indian street food on Highbury Avenue, IG-driven
- Unbounded + Spline Sans · hot/cold split palette (red + teal + turmeric on paper)
- Bilingual name (thanda=cold, garam=hot) used as menu structure
- Upgrade pitches direct-ordering economics vs delivery-app commissions