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CASE STUDY — 02
AGRIKA
Farm-to-Table Restaurant Template · Seasonal Menu System
OVERVIEW
One codebase, any
farm-to-table brand.
AGRIKA was built to solve a specific problem: casual fine-dining and farm-to-table concepts sit in an awkward gap between generic booking platforms and expensive bespoke builds. They need a site that feels editorial and brand-specific, but most don’t have the budget — or the timeline — for a from-scratch build.
The answer was a template engineered to be reskinned, not rebuilt. A single codebase that can carry a completely different restaurant’s identity — different palette, different typography, different imagery — without touching a line of layout code.
THE CHALLENGE
Templated shouldn’t
mean generic.
A restaurant template that looks like a template is worse than no template at all — it signals to diners that the brand didn’t invest in its own presentation. AGRIKA needed to feel bespoke to every restaurant that used it, while still being built once.
Seasonal menus also change constantly, often weekly. If updating a dish requires touching code, the template fails its actual users — the restaurant’s own staff, not just its diners.
A single build that can carry many distinct restaurant identities
Menu content that updates without touching code
Reservations and an events calendar without breaking the editorial feel
Fast performance despite rich, seasonal photography
THE SOLUTION
A token-driven
design system.
AGRIKA is built on a small set of design tokens — palette, type pairing, and imagery — that drive the entire visual identity. Reskinning the template for a new restaurant means swapping those tokens, not rebuilding pages.
The seasonal menu is a structured content model rather than hardcoded markup: dishes, descriptions, and seasonal availability are data, so a restaurant’s own team can update what’s on the table without a developer in the loop.
Reservations and the events calendar were built as swappable integration points — they can run against a third-party booking provider or a custom backend, so the template adapts to whatever operational stack a client already has.
KEY FEATURES
What was built.
01
Seasonal Menu Engine
A structured content model for dishes and seasonal availability — updating what’s on the menu never requires touching code.
02
Brand Token System
Palette, typography, and imagery are driven by a small set of swappable tokens — reskin the entire site for a new brand without a rebuild.
03
Reservations & Events Calendar
Table bookings and private event inquiries in one integrated flow, built to plug into a third-party provider or a custom backend.
04
Editorial Story Section
A dedicated sourcing and provenance narrative block, art-directed for storytelling rather than a generic "About Us" page.
05
Multi-Location Ready
Layout and content structure scale cleanly from a single farmhouse table to a multi-location rollout.
06
Performance Engineering
An image-heavy, editorial layout held to a sub-second load budget through aggressive optimization.
TECH STACK
The engineering
behind it.
Front-EndNext.js (App Router)File-based routing, server components, fast static generation
StylingCSS Modules + TokensScoped styles driven by a swappable brand-token system
ContentStructured Content ModelMenu and story content decoupled from code, CMS-ready
AnimationGSAPScroll reveals, seasonal menu transitions
IntegrationsReservations APIPluggable — third-party booking provider or custom backend
DeploymentVercelEdge delivery, automatic image optimization
RESULTS
Engineered with precision.
Built to last.
98+Lighthouse ScorePerformance · Accessibility · SEO · Best Practices
<1sLoad TimeOn an image-rich, editorial layout
3 TokensReskin SystemPalette · Type · Imagery — swap and relaunch
$79Template PriceProduction-ready, fully customizable
“AGRIKA proves a template doesn’t have to look like one — three token swaps and it’s a completely different restaurant.”
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