The first thing a browser says about you should not be “Not Secure.”
Jack’s Fortune is a sit-down Chinese restaurant on Bay Ridge Road in Eastport. The site at the restaurant’s own web address is served over plain, unencrypted HTTP with no certificate on it, so every current browser puts a warning between a hungry visitor and the menu. This page is a demonstration of the same business, rebuilt this decade.
The whole problem fits inside the address bar.
Two versions of the same restaurant’s web address. One of them is what a customer sees today before anything else loads.
No certificate
The site answers on plain HTTP. Nothing between the visitor and the restaurant is encrypted, which is the single thing browsers are hardest on right now.
Flat-file addresses
Pages sit at addresses like index.html. It is a naming pattern from an
earlier generation of the web, and search results carry it around as-is.
Ordering lives elsewhere
Online ordering runs through a separate third-party page rather than the restaurant’s own address, so the two halves never meet in one place.
What this page will not do: tell you what is wrong with how your current site looks. We never got its pages to render, so we have nothing honest to say about them. Everything above comes from the address itself — the protocol, the missing certificate, the file naming — and every one of those is checkable in five seconds from a phone.
Keep the ordering setup. Move the front door.
Online orders already run through a third-party ordering page. Nothing about that has to change. What changes is where people arrive first.
- A customer searches the restaurant by name and lands on a page at the restaurant’s own address, with no warning screen in front of it.
- They see the menu and the phone number on the same screen, sized for the phone they are holding, with the number as a tap rather than something to copy out.
- They order the way they prefer — by phone, or through the ordering service already in place. Both routes stay open, and both start from a page the restaurant controls.
at 960 Bay Ridge Road
(the restaurant’s own photograph;
no stock images used anywhere on this page)
960 Bay Ridge Road, Annapolis.
The address and the phone number are confirmed. The opening times are not, so they are shown as blanks rather than filled in with a guess.
- Monday—
- Tuesday—
- Wednesday—
- Thursday—
- Friday—
- Saturday—
- Sunday—
Hours to be confirmed. Read them out on the phone and they go in the same day.
Annapolis, MD 21403
960 Bay Ridge Rd, Annapolis, MD 21403
a real map goes here on the live build,
never a guessed one
Call the restaurant directly.
No warning screen, no third party in between, no waiting for a page to finish loading before the number shows up.