Case study · Live since 8 September 2026

Impression of Yunnan Table, Ultimo.signed off on the 7th, live on the 8th.

A Yunnan family restaurant on a quiet street in Ultimo, Sydney. The owner looked at the preview on his phone, asked for two changes, and said yes on 7 September. On 8 September the site was live on its own domain, with a business mailbox and a print pack for the new $18.80 lunch special.

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1 dayFrom yes to live.

63 dishesNine sections, with photos.

2 languagesEnglish and 中文, picked by the phone.

100%Domain, email and logins in the owner's name.

Measured, not claimed

Where it stands today.numbers you can check yourself.

Everything below was measured on 10 September 2026 and can be verified on the live site. It is a snapshot, not a promise.

85 / 100Google PageSpeed, mobile. LCP 3.5 s, layout shift 0.

4.5 ★ · 31Google rating, re-read every three hours and shown live on the site.

13 KBMachine-readable menu file for AI assistants, prices included.

63 dishesAcross nine sections, edited by the owner himself.

The rating on that site is not typed in by hand. It went from 4.4★ with 30 reviews to 4.5★ with 31 on the morning of 10 September, and the website updated itself — no one touched it. Reviews in English are machine-translated for the Chinese pages with the original text kept alongside.

Search results · 27 September 2026

First in Google's map results for Yunnan food in Sydney.nineteen days after launch.

Nineteen days after it went live, we searched the way diners do, in English and in Chinese, from Sydney with personalisation turned off. The map results are the three places Google lists beside its map, above the web links. Rankings move from day to day and from street to street, so read this as a dated snapshot, not a promise.

#1Google map results for “yunnan restaurant sydney”, plus five more searches below.

#1Google web results for “yunnan food ultimo”.

#1Bing for “yunnan restaurant sydney”.

Day 19AI search started naming it, with a link to the site.

Google mapFirst for “yunnan restaurant sydney”, “yunnan noodles sydney” and “mushroom braised rice sydney”, and for the Chinese searches “悉尼云南菜”, “悉尼云南米线” and “味道云南悉尼”. Second for “Ultimo 中餐”, third for “chinese restaurant ultimo”.
Google webFirst for “yunnan food ultimo” and “味道云南悉尼”, second for “yunnan restaurant sydney”, third for “悉尼云南菜”.
BingFirst for “yunnan restaurant sydney” and for “yunnan food ultimo”.
Google AIThe AI Overview at the top of Google names the restaurant for “yunnan food ultimo” and for “mushroom braised rice sydney”.
PerplexityRecommends it first when asked “where to eat Yunnan food near UTS Sydney”, and when asked in Chinese “悉尼哪里有正宗的云南菜” (where to find authentic Yunnan food in Sydney).
Every nightSince 10 September we have put the same six questions to AI search (OpenAI's web search), three in English and three in Chinese, the way a diner would ask them. For 17 nights no answer named the restaurant. On 27 September all five answers that came back named it, each with a link to yunnantable.com.au.
Not yetBroad searches such as “restaurants near uts” and “cheap lunch ultimo”. Those are won mostly on reviews: the two places on top for “cheap lunch ultimo” have more than 100 Google reviews each, and this one has 34.

Google and Bing were searched on 27 September 2026, exactly as the searches are written above. The nightly AI check runs at 2:20 am Sydney time and logs every answer.

What the owner got

One yes, everything set up.nothing left for him to chase.

A website in two languages

Home, menu, story, a page on Yunnan itself, and how to visit. A Chinese phone gets the Chinese site, an English phone the English one, and one tap switches.

The full menu, with photos

63 dishes in nine sections, the lunch special on top. Prices and dishes are edited by the owner in the admin panel, and the live site updates within a minute.

An AI waiter

Answers questions about dishes, hours, parking and the lunch deal in English or Chinese, any hour, and takes a message when someone wants a person.

Found on Google

Hours, address, rating and menu in the structured format Google reads, so the listing and the site tell the same story.

Domain and business email

yunnantable.com.au registered to the restaurant's own company, plus a Google Workspace mailbox on the domain. Every login handed over by email.

The admin panel

Menu, opening hours, notice bar, photos and reviews; an AI assistant that takes plain-language instructions; a traffic tab; and a 30-day history with one-tap rollback.

The detail he asked for

Every dish, pinned to its city.built the same afternoon.

Yunnan is a big province and the menu comes from all over it. The owner wanted people to see that, so the opening sequence draws the map and pins the restaurant's dishes to Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La and Xishuangbanna. The Yunnan page carries the same map with a short guide.

The Yunnan page with the province map and regional dishes — The Yunnan page: the map, the regions and what each one brings to the table.

The menu page with the lunch special section — The menu: lunch special first, then nine sections with photos.

Beyond the website

A print pack for the lunch special.poster, flyers, uniform.

The owner picked his favourites from thirty designs on a private page. We turned the picks into print-ready files: an A4 poster, two A5 flyers with a QR code that opens the site, and the artwork and spec sheet for staff tees. Delivered as JPG on a page where he can see every file and download it, or hand the whole pack to any print shop.

A4 lunch special poster — A4 poster for the door.

A5 lunch special flyer — A5 flyer, front.

A5 flyer back with address, hours and QR code — Flyer back: address, hours, QR to the site.

Staff tee mockup with the restaurant's calligraphy — Staff tee, with the restaurant's own calligraphy.

How it went

Five days from first preview to live.none of them waiting on him.

PreviewWe built the site from the menu, the photos the owner sent and the Google listing, and emailed a private link. Chinese and English from the start.
His changesShow which city each dish comes from on the opening map, and let the site pick the language from the phone. Both done the same afternoon.
7 SeptemberSign-off on the acceptance page. Invoice sent, one line for the domain and one for the mailbox.
8 SeptemberPaid in the morning. Domain registered in the restaurant's company name, DNS set up, Google Workspace mailbox created, site live on yunnantable.com.au, handover email with every login by the afternoon.
8 SeptemberPrint pack delivered: poster, flyers, uniform artwork, all as JPG on a page he can open on his phone.
27 SeptemberDay 19, our first full search check: first in Google's map results for Yunnan food in Sydney. The same day, AI search named the restaurant for the first time. See the searches.
OngoingHe edits the menu and hours himself. We watch traffic, uptime and search, and answer by email.