Unofficial concept prepared for discussion with Kodiak Bar by K&G Marketing. Not a live website. Everything here is a proposal for you to correct.
Kodiak

Your big nights,
found and booked.

A working concept for Kodiak Bar. Built from your reviews, your photos, and what your customers already say about you.

Prepared for Jamie & Nicole · Kodiak Bar, Kingston · August 2026 · K&G Marketing

1Why we're here

You reopened this place and packed it. The website hasn't caught up.

The night you reopened Kodiak, the room was full. That photo is still one of the most-liked things on your Instagram. That's the business you're building, and it deserves a website that works as hard as you do.

Right now the site works against you in three quiet ways: the menu goes stale the moment it changes, the Book Now button opens an email instead of taking the booking, and the functions side, your biggest nights, barely gets a page. None of that is your job to fix. It's ours. So instead of telling you what we'd do, we built it. It's all a draft for you to pull apart, and everything you correct today makes it yours.

2What Kingston already says

Your reviews are better than the big pub's. There just aren't enough of them yet.

4.6
Your Google rating
106
Your Google reviews
39
Reviews that mention "friendly staff"
"This is one of the best bars in Canberra"Google review, April 2026
"The service staff were really friendly and helpful, plus the cocktails were good value and quality."Google review, January 2026

For comparison, the Kingston Hotel sits at 4.3 from over 2,200 reviews. You out-rate the biggest pub in the district. They just have twenty times more people saying it. The fix isn't better service, you clearly have that. It's a simple habit: after every function and big booking, guests get one friendly nudge to leave a review. We set that up and run it for you, and we can draft your replies each month so they always land in the same warm voice, even on the frustrating ones.

3The menu

The menu problem, in your customers' words.

Your menus live on the site as photos. Every time the kitchen changes something, someone has to remake and re-upload an image, so the site is always a step behind, and your customers notice. It came up in a Google review just last month.

On the concept, the menu is real text on the page with a date stamp that says exactly when it was last updated. When something changes, you message us and it's live the same day. That's not an extra. It's the thing you'd be paying us for every month. And because it's text instead of a photo, Google can finally read your menu, which means people searching for a dish or a cocktail can actually find you.

4Bookings

From email ping-pong to booked in thirty seconds.

Right now, Book Now opens an email. The customer stares at a blank message, writes three lines, and then the back-and-forth starts: what date, how many, what time. Some of them just give up and book somewhere that made it easy.

The concept has a proper booking form: name, date, time, how many, done. And here's the part built for Kodiak: the moment someone picks a party of eight or more, the form changes shape and asks about their occasion, so a function enquiry arrives with the date, the headcount and the reason already answered. Your biggest bookings show up ready to say yes to.

5The website

Have a proper look. It's yours to pull apart.

Everything on it comes from you: your logo, your photos, your Google reviews word for word, your bear. The menu carries the date stamp, the functions page finally sells your three spaces, from a booth for the crew to the private room for 15 to the whole venue for 264, and the photos are your own, straight from your Instagram. We'd swap in the full-quality originals with your say-so.

kodiak.mydemo.cam
It's live right here, and it works on your phone too. Scroll it, tap it, try the booking form.
Open it full screen

While it's open, tell us

  • What's wrong. Seriously, the corrections are the most useful thing you can give us today.
  • Which hours are right? The internet currently shows four different versions of your opening hours.
  • Is 264 the right capacity number to publish, and does the private room still seat 15?
  • Which photos do you love, and which should never appear anywhere?
6Try something with us

Ask your phone where to book a birthday in Kingston.

The ten-second test

Ask your phone, or ChatGPT if you use it: "Where should we book a birthday for 20 people in Kingston?"

Whatever answer comes back, that answer was decided by how readable each venue is to these tools.

More and more people ask ChatGPT and their phone's assistant these questions now, alongside Google. Your new site ships with the files those tools read, written in plain language: what Kodiak is, where you are, what a group can book, what's on. We can't promise what any tool will answer, nobody honestly can. What we can do is make you the easiest venue in Kingston for them to read, and then show you each month whether you're appearing in their answers.

7Every month

What "looked after" actually means.

  • Menu changes live the same day you message us. No more remaking images.
  • Your Google listing kept sharp: one set of hours everywhere, fresh photos monthly, what's-on posts, and the questions people ask answered before they ask them.
  • The review habit run for you: the friendly nudge after functions and big bookings, and your replies drafted in your voice for you to approve.
  • Photos refreshed from your nights, so the site always looks like last weekend, not last year.

And underneath it, the quiet work you never have to think about: everything your current site has earned with Google gets carried across and preserved when we move you, so nothing you've built up is lost in the change. Most cheap rebuilds skip that step. We treat it as step one.

8The report

Four numbers, every month. So you always know what you're paying for.

SearchesHow many people saw and clicked you on Google
Listing actionsCalls, direction taps and bookings from your Google listing
ReviewsYour count and rating, and how they moved
AI answersWhether ChatGPT and the other assistants mention Kodiak when people ask about nights out in Kingston

That last number is one almost nobody else in the district is even measuring yet.

9What we'd like to understand

You know Kodiak. We want to get it right.

The things only you can tell us

  • What made you take on Kodiak, and what are you changing? What must never change?
  • Roughly what share of your trade is functions and big groups versus walk-in?
  • At what group size do you want a booking treated as a function enquiry?
  • How often does the menu change, and who updates the website today?
  • Did the photo library and the Instagram login come with the sale? There's a professional shoot in there we'd love the originals of.
  • What's the story with the bear on the wall? We want to photograph it properly.
  • Minimum spends or deposits for functions, so the form can say so up front?
  • Have you ever tried a booking system like OpenTable? Loved it, hated it?
10Working together

One plan. And it stays this good.

No project fees, no surprise invoices, no chasing a web guy. One monthly amount, and everything you've just seen keeps working.

Looked After

Your website and your Google listing, kept current. Every month.

Setup & buildwith a 12-month partnership
$900Waived
Billed monthly
$300/month
Paid annually
2 months free$3,000/year
All prices exclude GST. Prefer month to month with no term? That works too, and the $900 setup applies. Either way, you own the site, the domain and every photo from day one.

If today feels right

We can set everything up before we leave: you'll get a secure link, confirm the agreement, and the build starts this week. Your corrections from today go straight into the first version. And if today's not the day, tell us what you'd want to see changed and we'll come back with it done.