Kabab Cafe
A family-run Persian kitchen. Its market, now online for the first time.
Open in the Gateway shopping center since 2009, owned by a family of immigrants from Iran. I digitized their entire market into a Shopify store, Kabab Cafe Market, so customers far from Wayne can finally order their Persian goods online.
- Open since
- 2009
- Yelp, local kebab
- #2
- Always grilled
- Halal
- New online store
- Shopify
Their market, finally online.
Kabab Cafe has been in the Gateway shopping center in Wayne, Pennsylvania since 2009, one of the few there that has lasted. It is family-owned by immigrants from Iran: a son who chased the dream with his father, and built the restaurant together. The food is healthy and no-nonsense. Everything is halal, nothing fried, all of it grilled, and made fresh, from the vegetables to the kebabs to the rice and salads. The family prefers to stay out of the spotlight, so you won’t find their names here, only their cooking.
Yelp reviewers ranked it the second-best of fifteen to twenty kebab and Persian restaurants in the area; the only one ahead was a far pricier, upscale spot. But like many small businesses, Kabab Cafe struggled through COVID-19. So I helped them make a drastic turn: their entire market is now digitized into a Shopify store, Kabab Cafe Market, so customers who don’t live nearby can finally order their Persian goods online.
Highlights.
- Entire in-store market inventory digitized into Shopify
- Kabab Cafe Market: order their Persian goods online
- Reaches customers well beyond Wayne, not just walk-ins
- Storefront styled to match the restaurant's brand
- Mobile-first browsing and checkout
- A clear path from kababcafe.com to the new store
- Location
- Wayne, PA
- URL
- kababcafe.com
- Shipped
- May 2026
- Stack
- Shopify
The full story
One month with Kabab Cafe: the build journal.
The unabridged, week-by-week account of this project: sitting down with the family, digitizing the market, building the Shopify store, and launch day. Co-written with a second pair of eyes on the process.
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