N Cafe — Case Study | Berkelium Creative
Case study · 2025

N Cafe

Neighborhood café with brunch, pasta, and signature refreshers.

Industry Café · brunch · pasta
Location Glendale, CA
Engagement 2025
Services
N Cafe — featured work
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§ 01 — The numbers

Growth, measured.

+120%
Site traffic
90 days post-launch
12
Hero shots
photographed in one half-day
0.84s
Page load
mobile LCP
4.9★
Google rating
180+ reviews and counting
§ 02 — The brief

A young Glendale café with great food and a half-finished website. We photographed the menu and rebuilt the site to match the room.

Ch. 01 — The challenge

The food is the differentiator — pasta dishes and signature refreshers that don’t look like every other café in the area. But the existing site had stock photography, slow load, and no menu visibility. New customers couldn’t see what made N Cafe different.

Ch. 02 — Our approach

A half-day shoot for the dozen most-ordered plates and drinks, then a tight, scrollable site that lets the photography do most of the talking. The menu is browsable on mobile in under three taps; everything else (hours, location, contact) sits one click away.

Ch. 03 — The outcome

Site traffic doubled in the first ninety days. The photo set propagated through GBP, Yelp, and Google Maps within a week of delivery — and the bounce rate on the homepage dropped from 67% to 31%.

The photos changed everything. People walk in saying “I came for that pasta on your Instagram” — that’s a sentence we’d never heard before.
— N Cafe
§ 03 — Selected frames

From the archive.

06 frames in roll
§ 04 — What we shipped

The full stack.

01 Web Design Hand-coded sites · sub-1s load · 100/100 Lighthouse More web → 02 Food Photography Half-day shoots · 12–30 heroes · 5-day delivery More photo →
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