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Lauer House

A custom multilingual CMS for a family taverna

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Lauer House

A custom-built Laravel content management system for a family-run Greek restaurant in Sarti, Halkidiki, running since 2005. Far more than a brochure site: the owners manage every menu item, photo, blog post, recipe, and opening hour from a bespoke admin panel, publish the site in 16 languages, and let live guest reviews flow in automatically.

Behind the build

Lauer House has served Sarti since 2005, and in a village that fills with visitors from across Europe every summer, its reputation had always travelled by word of mouth. Our job was to turn that reputation into a digital presence that works as hard as the kitchen does, and that the family could run entirely on their own.

That ruled out an off-the-shelf template. We built a custom platform so that everything, from the daily specials to the live-music nights and the seasonal opening hours, is edited in one place and published in every language a guest might speak. New dishes and articles are drafted automatically in all sixteen languages and simply reviewed before they go live, so keeping the site current never becomes a chore.

The site also looks after itself. Fresh reviews arrive on the homepage on their own, bookings reach the family through the channels guests already use, and a quiet layer of performance and search work means the page loads instantly and shows up whether someone is searching on Google or asking an AI assistant where to eat in Sarti.

Marketing runs almost on autopilot, too. Photos uploaded to the site are given captions and titles by AI in the restaurant's own voice, then scheduled and posted automatically to Instagram and Facebook through Buffer, while a newsletter keeps regulars in the loop, all from the same panel the family already uses.

That content works hard, too. The blog articles and Greek-specialities recipes rank for a wide range of prominent search terms, from local dining queries to classic Greek recipes, bringing a steady stream of visitors every day. Combined with the constant flow of fresh reviews, it helped push Lauer House to the top of Sarti's restaurant ranking on TripAdvisor.

Capabilities

What the site can do

Custom CMS

A bespoke admin panel for the menu, gallery, blog, recipes, and hours.

16 Languages

Fully translated content with dedicated per-language URLs.

AI Translation

OpenAI-powered auto-translation tuned for hospitality copy.

Live Reviews

Daily import of Google and TripAdvisor reviews.

Reservations

Table booking via Eateio and one-tap WhatsApp.

Cookieless Analytics

Privacy-friendly visitor stats with bot filtering.

SEO & Structured Data

JSON-LD, hreflang, a localized sitemap, and an llms.txt for AI search.

Speed

Responsive WebP imagery and aggressive caching for instant loads.

Auto Social Posting

Posts photos to Instagram and Facebook through Buffer, on a schedule.

AI Captions & Titles

AI reads each photo and writes on-brand captions and post titles.

Newsletter

Email sign-ups synced to Mailchimp for campaigns.

Blog & Recipes

A blog and Greek-specialities recipes with scheduled publishing.

The Challenge

Sarti is a seasonal destination that fills each summer with holidaymakers from Germany, France, Romania, the Balkans and beyond, all searching for somewhere to eat in their own language. Lauer House needed a presence that would speak to them instantly, give the family full control of the content without technical help, and load flawlessly even on a phone with one bar of signal at the beach.

The Solution

We built a bespoke Laravel 12 CMS with a custom admin panel that manages the menu, gallery, blog, Greek-specialities recipes, pages, opening hours, and settings. Content is translatable into 16 languages through an OpenAI-powered auto-translation pipeline. Google and TripAdvisor reviews are imported daily and surfaced automatically, reservations run through Eateio and one-tap WhatsApp, and a privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics dashboard tracks real visitors while filtering out bots. Responsive WebP imagery, aggressive caching, full JSON-LD structured data, per-locale hreflang, a localized sitemap, and even an llms.txt for AI search keep it fast and highly discoverable.

Performance & Quality

Real Lighthouse results

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Performance
97
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
100
SEO

Built with

Laravel 12 Tailwind CSS Alpine.js OpenAI Multilingual (16) Custom CMS
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