Dune Bird Studio · Washington, DC

Websites that do the work.

Dune Bird Studio designs and builds websites for businesses — not just the page people visit, but the software behind it: online ordering, payments, scheduling, and the daily reports that used to be somebody's spreadsheet. You run the business. The website runs itself.

What we do

Design up front. Software underneath.

01

Marketing sites

Clean, fast sites that explain what you do and get customers to reach out. Copy, design, and launch — usually inside two weeks.

02

Ordering & booking systems

Custom software where your customers place orders, book time, and pay — and you get a clean roster of exactly what to make and for whom.

03

Payments & subscriptions

Stripe-powered checkout, recurring billing, and invoicing built into your site, so getting paid stops being a phone call.

04

Care & hosting

We host, monitor, and update everything we build. When you need a change, you email a person — not a ticket queue.

Current focus

A custom ordering site for your lunch program.

Right now we build for independent caterers serving Catholic and private schools. With Dune Bird Studio, every school you serve gets its own branded ordering site. Parents pick meals for the week and pay online. You get the kitchen roster every morning.

  • Branded site for each school you serve
  • Parents order by child, by day, and pay by card
  • Automatic kitchen roster with CSV download
  • No per-order fees — ever

Without Dune Bird

  • HotLunch and Boonli take 3–5% of every single order
  • Counting Monday's orders by hand from a spreadsheet export
  • Parents calling at 7 a.m. to change what Alex is eating
  • Paper forms, checks, and a shoebox of cash to reconcile

With Dune Bird

  • One flat monthly price — you keep 100% of every order
  • The kitchen roster counts itself, every morning, per school
  • Ordering closes at a cutoff you choose — no morning-of changes
  • Every order paid by card before it reaches your kitchen
How it works

Three steps. None of them are yours.

1

We build your menu

Send us next week's menu however you have it — a PDF, a photo, an email. It's live on your schools' pages the same day.

2

Parents order online

Each family picks meals by child and by day, and pays by card. Ordering closes at your cutoff, automatically.

3

You cook, we count

Every morning you get the roster: who's eating what, at which school. One click downloads the CSV for the kitchen.

Pricing

One number. No asterisks.

$75
per school, per month
First month free · Cancel anytime
  • Branded ordering page for each school
  • Unlimited parents, children, and orders
  • Card payments handled by Stripe
  • Daily kitchen roster + CSV export
  • Menu updates done for you, same day
  • Zero per-order fees
Get your first month free

Serve 4 schools? That's $300/month — and you eliminate platform fees on every order. Most caterers cover that with the fees from a single school's first week.

Get in touch

See it with your school's menu.

Send us a menu and the name of one school you serve. Within two days you'll get a live, private demo page with your food, your prices, and your name on it — before you've paid anything or signed anything. Building something that isn't school lunch? We'd like to hear about that too.