The story
The owners of Pho Saigon Covington, a family-run Vietnamese restaurant, needed a site that did three things: showed the menu beautifully, loaded fast on a phone in the middle of a lunch rush, and ranked for 'pho near me' in Tipton County.
I rebuilt their presence on Next.js with a tight focus on performance and SEO — structured data, clean metadata, optimized imagery, and a menu designed to be legible in one scroll. The whole project was volunteer; the site is live today.
Marks in the margin
- Shipped a Next.js site built around Core Web Vitals from day one.
- Implemented structured data and on-page SEO.
- Tuned images and fonts for sub-second first paint on mobile.
- Measurable lift in local search visibility.
Volunteer project — not employed by the restaurant.