Forty years in Farmington. A website to match.
Farmington Steak House has served steaks in Farmington since 1986, and it's family-owned. Its old website had gone offline. We built the new one first and showed it at the restaurant, and on September 23, 2026, the day the owner said yes, it went live on farmingtonsteakhousemn.com.
Family steakhouse · Farmington, MN · Live since September 2026
Farmington Steak House is a family-owned steakhouse in downtown Farmington, open since 1986: steaks, gyros and comfort food, served cafeteria-style and paid for in cash or check. We built its site before the family had agreed to anything and showed it at the restaurant in April 2026. On September 23, 2026, the owner said yes. That afternoon the menu was matched to the restaurant's new printed flyer, a new photo went up on the Our Story page, and the site launched on farmingtonsteakhousemn.com.
Where they started
Farmington Steak House has been feeding Farmington since 1986, and it's family-owned. Regulars know the routine: walk in, grab a tray, order at the counter and pay in cash or by check.
What the restaurant didn't have was a website. Its old Weebly site had gone offline, and the website link on its Google listing went to a Facebook page. Someone deciding where to eat had no page of the restaurant's own for the menu, the prices or the hours, which is the gap our guide to websites and Facebook pages is about.
What the site had to do
- Put the whole menu online, with the same prices as the printed flyer
- Answer the first question people ask: are you open right now?
- Tell first-timers how it works before they arrive: order at the counter, pay by cash or check
- Tell the family's story, with a real photo of the owner
- Get anyone who wants to call to the phone in one tap
What we built, and why
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The menu, straight from the flyer
Forty-five prices in five sections, from dinners and sandwiches to the kids' menu, fries and drinks, typed from the restaurant's printed flyer. When a new flyer came out, the site was matched to it on the day the owner said yes.
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Open now, or not yet
The homepage compares the restaurant's posted hours with the time on the visitor's own phone or computer and says Open Now, Opening Today or Closed Today, with the closing or next opening time. It checks again every minute, so a page left open over lunch stays right.
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How it works, before the drive over
The Visit page tells a first-timer what they need to know before they arrive: ordering is cafeteria-style, and it's cash and check only. The page also has a map, a directions link and the hours for every day of the week.
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The family's page
The Our Story page tells the family's story, and in September 2026 it got a new photo of Aristea, the owner, behind the counter.
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One tap to call
The phone number is a call button in the header of every page, and in the menu on phones. The homepage closes with the same two choices: call the restaurant, or get directions.
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Reviews, one tap away
A Leave Us a Google Review button on the homepage and a Google Reviews link in the footer both open the restaurant's Google listing, so a happy regular can post a review without hunting for it.
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A gallery of the real room
Ten photos: the storefront with its blue awning, the grill, the plates that come off it, the kitchen counter and the dining room, down to the vintage toy cars on the shelves.
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Ready for search
Every page has its own title and description, and the site publishes a sitemap, so search engines can find all six pages on the new domain. That's the groundwork our local SEO work builds on.
The dates, as they happened
Shown at the restaurant
We walked in with the site already built: six pages built around the restaurant's printed menu and real photos of the room and the food.
The owner says yes
The menu was matched to the restaurant's new printed flyer, and a new photo of the owner went up on the Our Story page.
Live on farmingtonsteakhousemn.com
The site launched on the restaurant's new domain that afternoon, open to search engines from the first day.
What’s running on farmingtonsteakhousemn.com
A website of its own again
Since September 23, 2026, farmingtonsteakhousemn.com has carried the restaurant's menu, hours and story. Before that, there was no working site to send anyone to.
From yes to live in one afternoon
The site was already built, so launch day was a new menu, a new photo and a new domain. It's the same route we offer every business: a free preview of your homepage before you pay anything.
The flyer and the website agree
Every price online comes from the restaurant's current printed flyer, so nobody drives over expecting last year's prices.
No surprises at the register
Cafeteria-style ordering and cash and check only are spelled out on the homepage, the Visit page and in the footer, so a first-timer knows before they walk in.
Kept current every month
The restaurant is on a monthly care plan: when the flyer or the hours change, the website changes with them. It's how we look after every restaurant and café site we run.
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