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House of Garlic

A streamlined ordering experience for a local favorite

A Middle Eastern restaurant and food truck was losing online orders to a menu that was hard to browse. I rebuilt the site around ordering, browsing, and catering — in that order.

Client
House of Garlic
Industry
Restaurant
My role
Lead Designer
House of Garlic mobile site on a phone with brand shapes, falafel photography, and the food truck

Impact at a glance

  • 3 paths

    Pickup, delivery, and catering, separated cleanly

  • Mobile-first

    Where nearly all ordering happens

  • Menu-led

    Navigation rebuilt around the food

Challenge

Increase online orders while making menu browsing easier

Ordering, catering, and food-truck booking all competed for the same navigation slots. Regulars knew what they wanted and still had to hunt for it. New visitors gave up and went to a delivery app instead.

What I did

Redesigned the site around how people actually order

I mapped the whole site into three parallel journeys — order now, browse the menu, book catering — and gave each one an unmistakable entry point. The information architecture and flows came first so nothing had to share a slot.

  • NavigationRebuilt around ordering, menu, and catering.
  • OrderingToast and DoorDash integrated as paths, not escape hatches.
  • CateringTwo clear tracks: pickup trays and food-truck catering.
House of Garlic UX flow diagram and information architecture map covering ordering, catering, food truck, contact, and careers

Mobile

Designed for a phone in a parking lot

Nearly all ordering happens on a phone, so the mobile layout led the design rather than following it. Catering, ordering, and calling are all reachable without scrolling into the fold.

Mobile screens for catering options, what makes us different, and the catering hero with pickup and food truck buttons

Brand

A visual system that carries the food truck energy

I extended the brand into a set of reusable shapes, color blocks, and card treatments so new pages and promotions stay on-brand without redesigning anything.

House of Garlic brand shape and color-block system in blue, yellow, and dark navy

Result

One experience for pickup, delivery, and catering

The result is a streamlined ordering experience that better supports pickup, delivery, and catering customers, and the food truck finally has a bookable home instead of a phone number in a caption.

Visit the live site

What I'd take forward

Given the same project now, I'd conduct research with real customers before locking the navigation, and build the ordering flow as a coded prototype so the owner could click through it before development started. I'd also plan for the truck's schedule to change weekly and build it so it updates itself, rather than linking out to Facebook for the current location.