Grande Burrito

Grande Burrito is a restaurant in my town whose food I already enjoy. Its web presence lives primarily on social media, and I saw an opportunity to give the business a more professional home while making its most important piece of information—the current menu—much easier to find.

This is a self-initiated concept. It was not commissioned by Grande Burrito and has not been presented to or approved by the restaurant.

I reviewed the restaurant's Facebook presence, the way it communicates with customers, its posted menus, and public Google reviews. Rather than inventing a replacement identity, I treated the existing logo and printed-menu style as the source material for the site.

The digital expression adds a stretched Grande wordmark, a motion-led logo treatment, clearer hierarchy, and a dedicated structure that social posts cannot provide. The animated logo is the detail I am proudest of in the current build.

The public experience is paired with a Sanity studio for maintaining menu categories, items, prices, sold-out states, regular hours, exceptions, announcements, imagery, and supporting copy. The expressive homepage hero remains locked so routine content editing cannot accidentally dismantle the central brand moment.

A generated content snapshot can preserve essential public information during a CMS outage. For this speculative build, that resilience is proof of the feature and of the production thinking behind the concept—not a requirement supplied by the restaurant.

The burrito image in the current hero was generated with ChatGPT as a temporary visual placeholder. It is not presented as a photograph of a real Grande Burrito menu item. An official version would replace it with photography of the restaurant's actual food.

I researched, designed, and built the working frontend, content model, Sanity studio, validation rules, and resilience layer. Before presenting it as a real proposal, I would simplify the administrative interface, continue refining the motion, add a printable menu for customers who want to keep a copy at home, and replace the placeholder hero image with original photography.

This was an independent end-to-end exercise spanning research, product strategy, content modeling, visual and interaction design, animation, frontend engineering, CMS architecture, and testing. The restaurant retains ownership of its existing identity; my contribution is the digital system built around it.