The Malayan Council

The problem

A restaurant group running several venues, each with its own menu, opening hours and seating capacity, all under one brand. One website had to present them as a single identity while keeping each venue genuinely independent.

What we built

A site where the group is the front door and each venue has its own space behind it — its own menu, hours, gallery and reservation capacity. Bookings route to the right kitchen automatically, so the wrong venue never gets a table it cannot seat.

The hard part

Deciding what to share and what to separate. Too much sharing and each venue loses its character; too little and it stops feeling like one group. The answer was shared branding and navigation, fully separate operations.

What it runs on

Hand-coded PHP templates with a small admin area, so the group can update menus and hours per venue without calling us.