Build your pizzeria website in Westminster
Westminster, Colorado, sits between Denver and Boulder, and its pizza is mostly taphouse and brewpub food plus chains on the main roads. An independent with its own website can be the neighborhood choice for a commuter suburb, taking orders directly instead of paying a delivery app a commission on every pie.
A commuter city building a downtown
Westminster had 116,317 residents in 2020, the eighth most populous city in Colorado, split between Adams and Jefferson counties. It is building a new Downtown Westminster on a 105-acre site, the former Westminster Mall, almost exactly halfway between downtown Denver and Boulder. The B Line commuter rail, opened in 2016, runs from Westminster Station to Denver Union Station, and Flatiron Flyer buses use the US 36 express lanes.
Its pizza is largely taphouse food. Quinto Neighborhood Pizzeria & Taphouse on Town Center Drive serves wood-fired pies with a self-serve tap wall. Kokopelli Beer Company, in the Solaire Shoppes on Harlan Street, makes hand-tossed pizza and calls itself the first solely woman-owned brewpub in Colorado. Build-your-own chains sit along 120th Avenue.
A taphouse can sell pizza to go
Taphouse regulars are an obvious takeout audience: a pie to carry home, or one ordered on a quiet night in. A simple page with your menu and online ordering for pickup lets them do it without calling during a busy evening. The bar side of the business stays exactly as it is; the takeout side grows without a commission attached.
On a delivery app, the same order carries a service fee for the customer and a cut for the platform, and your pies sit in a list beside every chain in range.
Spread-out neighborhoods, tight radius
US 36 and I-25 cut across the city, and neighborhoods like Legacy Ridge, Bradburn and Hyland Creek are spread around preserved open space such as Standley Lake and Westminster Hills. A kitchen near Downtown Westminster cannot serve all of it well by car. On your own site you set a delivery radius in miles that keeps pies hot, and offer pickup to everyone else.
Direct orders also give you the customer’s contact details, so you can tell regulars about a new pie, a game-night special or holiday hours, directly and for free. Keep the apps for discovery if they help, and give the neighbors who already like your pizza a direct line to your kitchen.