A rebuild for a Tyler family restaurant that moved from a dogo counter inside Bricks downtown to its own place on Old Bullard Rd. The old site was a dark template whose sections stayed blank until you scrolled, with a catering form that said thanks and sent nothing. The new one is set on the kitchen’s pass: every dogo on the menu drawn from its real toppings, an open sign that lights only when they’re open, and the move drawn as a map.
Captured from the live site, lalos.auzi.ai. Not a mockup.
The site was a generic dark restaurant template: small labels over every heading, purple gradients, squiggle underlines. Whole sections waited to fade in until they were scrolled to, so a quick scroll, a slow phone or a link preview showed empty black and purple blocks where the menu and photos should have been.
The catering page had a quote form that checked your answers, said thanks and sent nothing: Lalo’s had no inbox behind it. Someone planning a party could wait on a call that was never coming. It also promised a call back within a business day, which nobody had agreed to.
Every photo the kitchen posts is shot from above on the steel pass: dogos on red-and-white checkered paper, plates on clay barro with white-dot rims, the purple sign out front at dusk. The site is set there. Dark like the cantina at night, sign-painter letters, checkered paper for the dogos, the barro rim for the plates, and the kitchen’s own photos set down like plates.
Each of the ten dogos on the printed menu is drawn in code from its own topping list: bun, bacon spiral, mayo, mustard and ketchup, then the pico, queso, Hot Cheetos, mac or asada the menu names. The home page opens on the $35 6-Dogo Tray being built one dogo at a time, and the dogo counter builds whichever one you pick. An ABIERTO neon sign lights only while Lalo’s is open, worked out in Tyler time, and the move from East Erwin to Old Bullard is drawn from real streets in neon.
Lighthouse performance score, mobile profile (runs: 95, 96, 96). The desktop profile scores 100.
The opening line, timed in Chromium with the CPU slowed 4× on a 1.6 Mbps connection (runs: 0.65 to 0.79 s).
Everything the home page downloads on a phone, compressed, including the drawn tray.
Lighthouse 12.8 on the live home page, 29 September 2026: mobile profile (simulated slow 4G) unless a figure says desktop. Scores move a little from run to run.
Prices appear only where the printed menu gives them. Five sections say the menu on hand doesn’t list them, rather than copying DoorDash’s.
The catering form is gone, and nothing on the site promises catering, delivery by Lalo’s or a call back.
Every photo is the restaurant’s own. The building’s previous tenant isn’t named, because local news reports disagree.
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