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FOOD & HEALTHY EATING

Shake Cafe Florence

A fast, mobile-first digital home for Florence's favourite healthy eating chain — bringing fresh food to screens as fast as it's made in the kitchen.

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Shake Cafe Florence
5Florence Locations
40%Online Order Growth
98Mobile Perf. Score
1.2sTime to Interactive

Speed and Appetite, Both in One Screen

Shake Cafe operates 5 locations across Florence, each with its own menu variations, opening hours, and seasonal offerings. Managing this across a single coherent digital presence — without it feeling like a sprawling corporate franchise — was the central challenge.

The target audience is predominantly mobile: health-conscious locals and tourists who make decisions on the fly and have zero tolerance for slow websites or confusing menus. Every second of load time translates directly to lost orders.

The brand also needed to communicate warmth, freshness, and quality — values that are easy to convey in a physical space but notoriously difficult to translate onto a screen.

Radically Fast, Deliberately Warm

Digital Design Firenze built Shake Cafe as a Progressive Web App using Preact — achieving a 1.2-second time-to-interactive on mobile, making it faster than most native apps. The PWA also enables "Add to Home Screen" installation, creating a app-like return experience without App Store friction.

A unified content system lets the Shake Cafe team update menus, seasonal specials, and location hours across all five stores from a single dashboard — ensuring consistency without requiring a developer for every change.

The location finder uses Mapbox with geolocation to instantly surface the nearest store and its live availability, removing the most common drop-off point in the pre-order journey.

Tools & Technologies

Preact
Vite
PWA
Mapbox
Sanity CMS
Cloudflare Pages
Google Analytics 4
Service Workers

Measured Outcomes

  • 40% increase in online pre-orders within 60 days of launch
  • Google Lighthouse mobile performance score of 98
  • 1.2-second time-to-interactive on 4G mobile connection
  • All 5 Florence locations managed from a single CMS dashboard
  • PWA installation rate of 18% among repeat visitors
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