Help noob please - restaurant menu method please...

Question

I created a basic static website a few years ago using Dreamweaver MX 2004.  I am a basic WYSIWIG type of amateur.  The site is for a family member's restaurant and has worked fairly well for some time but its getting harder to make updates to the restaurant menus.  Items and pricing keep changing and the tables I had put in place get pretty messed up easily since all the item and pricing changes don't totally conform to table characteristics I originally set up.
So, I'm looking for help (remember I'm a noob wysywig type of guy - dont know CSS or anything beyond!) with the restaurant menu techniques. 
I wouldnt mind moving the site to a content management type of site if I knew that would could be set up to match requirements and then could be more easliy maintained.
I really appreciate all suggestions and thanks!
An example of the site's menu is HERE.

Answer 1

Let me offer you a few comments because I think you might have gotten a little off track here.
You want to reproduce, as best you can, the look of a menu on paper. On the Internet. And a .PDF will accurately do that but there is a real problem with PDFs. Not all PDF menus will be accurately scanned by the search engines, so if I'm looking for "Mexican food", or "Tex-Mex food" a search may not turn up your website.
From my point of view, your website needs to have content for the purpose of drawing people in to your restaurant to sit down and eat (or to use your catering services, assuming you do that as well).
So let's consider what's on your website from that standpoint.
Your current menu is laid out in tables. I have consistently found that search engines will tend to rank a website lower when it is laid out in tables. I am guessing that the amount of in-line definition overwhelms the search engines when they are looking for content. Take, for example this line:
<td height="20"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Jalapeno Poppers</font></td>
(this is line 175 in your source code).
If search engines are looking for the term "Jalapeño Poppers," they have to wade through a font face definition, height of your cell and size of the font before they actually get to the term. You mentioned straight out that you don't know CSS. But were you to define a header level in CSS, as well as your columns, you would get the following for this same item:
<h3>Jalapeño Poppers</h3>
Need it in Comic Sans? Define the <h3> tag to be Comic Sans. Need it centered? Define that as well. Need it a certain size? No problem. Now, the browser reads in your CSS, stores that in memory and then renders all pages based on that CSS out.
I have just done a few restaurants and have more in process. Restaurant websites in my area are universally bad. A website that is constructed using modern techniques of CSS and HTML will certainly stand out and garner more hits, based on people stumbling on the website from search.
Unless you are constantly changing prices, you don't need to use a database. All you really need is good code and the time necessary to do occasional price updates. Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG (almost) Design view makes simple price changes and editing easy.
And if you have bit off more than you can chew, consider having a professional designer do the restaurant website and simply maintain what the designer did.
A few additional notes:
You have your East Moline breakfast menu set as one large .jpg That is absolutely not searchable, so if someone is looking for a delicious breakfast burrito, they're not going to find you.
Your page titles don't change and your physical address may not be the right kind of title. Also there is no unified navigation on your website. People who look at your menu might want to look at your catering options as well.
I like the fact that you have lots of content there. Were I doing the website, I'd have a good start to go on.