How to make a website for a mess

Students and working people new to a city look for a mess they can eat at every day for months. Before joining, they want to see the weekly menu, the monthly rate, meal timings and how clean the kitchen is. A small website shows all this and lets them message you on WhatsApp to try a meal.

Updated 2026-11-09

What people look for on a mess website

The weekly menu, day by day, for lunch and dinner
Monthly plan rates: two meals a day, lunch only, dinner only, and the single meal price
Meal timings, including early dinner during exams and the Sunday schedule
Whether it is pure veg, and on which days there is a special such as paneer or sweet
Rules for leave days: whether meals missed while going home are carried forward
Photos of the kitchen, the dining area and a regular thali
Distance from the coaching institutes, colleges or hostels nearby, and a Google Maps button

The pages your website needs

Home: What a regular thali has, the monthly rate, meal timings and a WhatsApp button to ask for a trial meal
Weekly menu: Lunch and dinner for each day of the week, with the Sunday special and festival days
Monthly plans: Two-meal, lunch-only and dinner-only plans with prices, the joining date rule, leave-day rules and how to pay
Kitchen and dining: Photos of the kitchen, the cooks at work, the dining hall, drinking water and washing area
Contact: Address, landmark, which hostels and institutes are near, timings, phone, WhatsApp and Google Maps

Sample words for your home page

Home-style veg food for students in Talwandi, Kota

Pure veg lunch and dinner, ₹3,200 a month for both meals. Lunch 12 to 3, dinner 7 to 10. Try one meal before you join.

Maa Gayatri Mess has cooked for students in Talwandi since 2012. Our thali has two sabzis, dal, rice, four rotis and salad, with a sweet on Sunday. Meals missed on leave of four days or more are carried to the next month. Message us on WhatsApp to try a meal.

Use these as a starting point and write them in your own words: AppCub can rewrite them for you in the chat.

How to make it with AppCub, step by step

Decide the pages. Most mess websites need these pages: Home, Weekly menu, Monthly plans, Kitchen and dining, Contact.
Describe it to AppCub. Paste the request below, with your own name, address, prices and timings.
Check the plan. AppCub lists the pages and what goes on each. Ask for changes until it is right; seeing the plan is free.
Add your details and photos. Replace every sample with your real details, attach your own photos, and check each page on the phone and computer preview.
Publish and share. Choose your address (your-name.sites.appcub.ai), put the website live and share the link on WhatsApp.

Copy this request, change the details to match your mess, and paste it into AppCub:

Make a website for my mess, Maa Gayatri Mess, near Jawahar Nagar circle in Talwandi, Kota. Pages: home, weekly menu, monthly plans, kitchen and dining, and contact. Pure veg. Thali: two sabzis, dal, rice, four rotis, salad; sweet on Sunday. Plans: both meals ₹3,200 a month, lunch only ₹1,800, dinner only ₹1,800, single meal ₹90. Leave of 4 days or more is carried forward. Lunch 12 PM to 3 PM, dinner 7 PM to 10 PM. Five minutes from the main coaching area. WhatsApp 98XXXXXXXX. Green and white colours.

Tips for a mess website

Put the full weekly menu on the website; students and parents compare menus more than anything else.
Write the leave-day rule clearly. It is the most common argument in a mess, and a written rule helps both sides.
Show the kitchen, water filter and washing area in photos; parents often check these before their child joins.
Name the nearby hostels, PGs and institutes on the contact page, so newcomers know how far you are.
Update the menu page when it changes for summer or winter, and publish again.
Add the mess to Google Maps with a free Google Business Profile; newcomers search on Maps first.

What it costs

Describing your website and seeing AppCub’s plan for it is free.
Making it and changing it in chat uses credits for the work done: start with the 2-day trial for ₹99 (150 credits) or the one-time App Pack for ₹499 (200 credits, no autopay). Starter is ₹1,599 a month for 700 credits.
Publishing is free for an account that has paid AppCub once, at your-name.sites.appcub.ai.
Work that fails or is rolled back costs no credits.

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Good to know

Students can't join, pay the monthly fee or mark leave on the website; they WhatsApp or call you. To keep members, meal counts, leave days and dues, a mess app is the better fit.
The pages are written in English. You can talk to AppCub in English, Hindi or Hinglish.
A website has no forms, bookings, payments or logins: visitors reach you on WhatsApp, by phone or on Google Maps.
Every page carries a small “Made with AppCub” badge and a “Report this site” link.

Questions

What should a mess website show?

The weekly menu, monthly plan prices, meal timings, leave rules, kitchen photos and a WhatsApp button to ask for a trial meal.

Can students join the mess from the website?

They message you on WhatsApp from any page. The website has no joining form or payment; you note them down yourself.

Should I put the monthly fee on the website?

Yes. Students compare a few messes on price and menu before visiting, and a clear rate saves you many phone calls.

Can parents in another city check the mess on the website?

Yes. Send them the link; they see the menu, the kitchen photos and the address, and can call you from the page.

Can the website show the menu in Hindi?

The pages are in English. You can still write dish names the way students know them, like aloo matar or rajma chawal.

Can I put a different menu for exam season?

Yes. Ask AppCub to add a short note or change the weekly menu for those weeks, and publish again.

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