How much does a restaurant website cost in 2026 and 2027?

There are four common ways to get a restaurant website. These are the published prices as I checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices change (Squarespace raised its prices in July 2026), so check before you sign up.

Option	Typical cost	What you get
Website builder (Squarespace, Wix)	$17–$159 a month, billed yearly	A template you set up yourself. Online payments on most paid plans.
Restaurant platform (Popmenu, Owner.com)	$159–$499 a month, some with per-order fees	A restaurant template, menus, and ordering or marketing tools, depending on the plan.
Point-of-sale ordering site (Square Online)	$0–$149 a month per location	An ordering site tied to your Square account.
Freelancer or small studio	About $1,500–$10,000 one-off	A site designed for your restaurant, which you can own.

Sources: Squarespace, Wix, Popmenu, Owner.com, Square and Clutch, checked November 2026.

Website builders

Squarespace costs $19, $29, $49 or $99 a month on annual billing ($25 to $139 billed monthly). The Basic plan adds a 2% fee on sales, so if you take payments, Core at $29 is the realistic starting point. Wix costs $17 to $159 a month billed yearly, and online payments start on its Core plan at $29.

Builders are the cheapest way to get online, and they're fine for a menu, your hours and directions. The catch is time: you write the pages, set up the menu and keep everything current yourself.

Restaurant platforms

Popmenu's plans cost $159 to $449 a month prepaid annually ($179 to $499 monthly). Online ordering is an add-on with no published price, and each online order costs $1.00, which you can pass on to the guest. Owner.com costs $249 a month plus a 5% fee on each order, or $499 a month with no per-order fee. On both Owner plans, guests also pay a 5% "order support fee".

Platforms do a lot for you, including ordering, marketing tools and an app on some plans. But the monthly price never stops, and if you leave, the website stays with them.

A website built for you

A custom restaurant website is usually a one-off cost. Freelancers and small studios typically charge somewhere between $1,500 and $10,000, depending on pages, locations and features. On Clutch, most web design projects cost under $10,000, and US agencies typically bill $100 to $149 an hour. Industry guides put larger agencies building fully custom sites at around $8,000 to $20,000 or more.

What do restaurant owners actually pay?

In a discussion on Reddit's r/webdesign community about a website for a restaurant, hotel and wedding venue, one developer put the price at roughly $1,000 to $5,000 for a business that's still getting established, and $5,000 to $15,000 or more for higher-end places. Custom design and extra features like bookings or lead capture pushed the estimates up. These are individual quotes, not industry averages.

Template websites vs custom-designed websites

A template site and a custom site can both look good. The difference is how well the site fits the way your restaurant actually works.

Template: fast and cheap to start. You choose a design and fill it in. It works well for a single location with a simple menu. It gets harder when you need a menu with variations, several branches, or ordering rules like delivery areas and time slots.
Custom: designed around your menu, your locations and how you take orders. You pay more upfront, but you can own the site and stop paying a platform every month.

Here are three examples from my own work. Taj runs three branches in Nikko, Kawaguchiko and Okinawa from one site, in English and Japanese, with table bookings and a booking form for travel agencies. Akbar has its own ordering site with delivery, takeout, online payments and a live order dashboard for staff. Urban Tadka has ordering, points and coupons, so regulars have a reason to order direct. None of these would have fit neatly into a template.

What should a $1,000–$3,000 restaurant website include?

This is the budget most independent restaurants ask about. At this price, from a freelancer or small studio, you can reasonably expect a clean, fast, phone-first site that answers the questions customers actually have.

5 to 8 pages: home, menu, about, location and hours, contact, and maybe a gallery or private dining page.
The menu as real text, not a PDF. Text loads quickly on phones and can be read by Google.
Phone-first design, with tap-to-call, directions and opening hours one tap away.
A way to update the menu yourself, through an admin area or a builder.
Basic SEO: page titles, descriptions, restaurant structured data, and a link to your Google Business Profile.
Reservations through a booking service you already use, added to the site rather than built from scratch.

What usually costs more than this budget allows:

Online ordering with payments, delivery areas and order notifications.
Loyalty points, coupons or a branded app.
More than one location, each with its own page and menu.
A second language, done properly with its own pages.
Professional photography and copywriting.
Connections to your point-of-sale system.

If the budget is tight, put the basics first: a readable menu, correct hours, and a booking or order button on every page. My restaurant website checklist lists the nine fixes worth doing first.

One-time costs: what you pay to build it

Whoever builds your site, these are the usual one-time costs.

Design and build: most of the cost. It depends on the number of pages, the features and how much is custom.
Menu setup: entering dishes, prices, variations and dietary labels. A big menu takes real time.
Content: photos and copy. Good food photography is worth paying for, and most designers price it separately.
Setup fees: some platforms and ordering systems charge one.
Moving an old site: moving existing pages, menus and redirects so you don't lose search traffic.

Recurring costs: domain, hosting and maintenance

These keep running after launch, so budget for them every year.

Item	Typical cost	Notes
.com domain	About $11–$24 a year	Cheap the first year at some registrars, more at renewal. GoDaddy renews at $23.19 and Cloudflare at $11.17.
SSL certificate	Free	Let's Encrypt provides trusted certificates at no cost. Most hosts include one.
Hosting	Included with builders and platforms	For a custom site, small-site hosting is usually a few dollars to about $25 a month.
Maintenance plan	About $50–$300 a month, if you choose one	Updates, fixes and small changes. Optional, but someone has to keep the menu and software current.

Domain prices from Porkbun's registrar comparison and SSL from Let's Encrypt, checked November 2026. Hosting and maintenance ranges come from industry guides, not one official price list, so treat them as rough.

One thing to check before you sign anything: whose name is the domain registered in? It should be yours. If a platform or designer owns it, leaving them can mean losing your web address.

What do online ordering, reservations and payments cost?

This is where restaurant websites get expensive, mostly through fees per order rather than the monthly price.

Card payments: Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card payment in the US, plus 1.5% for international cards. Square Online charges 2.9% + 30¢ on its paid plans and 3.3% + 30¢ on its free plan.
Platform per-order fees: Popmenu charges $1.00 per online order. Owner.com's $249 plan adds 5% per order. Squarespace's Basic plan adds a 2% sales fee.
Reservations: most restaurants use a booking service such as OpenTable, Resy or Tock, which charge their own fees. Your website links to it or embeds it, so check that service's current pricing separately.

On a $30 order paid by card, Stripe's fee is about $1.17. That's the floor for any online order you take yourself.

What do delivery apps really cost?

Delivery apps aren't part of a website's price, but they're why many owners want ordering on their own site. Here are the US commissions as published in November 2026:

App	Delivery orders	Pickup orders
DoorDash	15%, 25% or 30% by plan	6%
Uber Eats	20%, 25% or 30% by plan (15% on Lite in LA and Seattle)	7%–10%
Grubhub	5%–20% marketing commission, plus delivery fees from 10%	Varies

On that same $30 order, a 25% delivery plan keeps $7.50, compared with about $1.17 in card fees on your own site. I worked through the numbers month by month in restaurant online ordering vs Uber Eats fees. Most restaurants keep the apps for new customers and give regulars a reason to order direct.

What does a restaurant website cost over three years?

Monthly prices hide the real comparison. Here's a rough three-year total for each option, using the published prices above and about $36 for three years of a domain. It doesn't include card fees, which you pay on any online order whichever option you choose.

Option	3-year cost	How it adds up
Squarespace Core	About $1,080	$29 a month × 36, plus the domain.
Popmenu Starter	About $5,760	$159 a month × 36, before ordering or per-order fees.
Owner.com Flat Rate	About $18,000	$499 a month × 36, with no per-order fee.
Custom site, built once	About $3,000–$6,000+	A $2,500–$5,000 build, plus hosting and the domain, plus maintenance if you choose a plan.

An illustration from published prices, not a quote. Your numbers depend on your plan, your order volume and whether you add ordering.

What makes a restaurant website cost more?

Online ordering: delivery areas, time slots, payments, refunds and order notifications are real software.
Several locations: each branch needs its own page, hours and sometimes its own menu.
More than one language: each language needs its own pages so it shows up in search.
Connections to your point-of-sale system, delivery apps or loyalty program.
Accessibility work: worth taking seriously in the US. In UsableNet's 2025 report, food service accounted for about 21% of digital accessibility lawsuits, second only to e-commerce. Ask whoever builds your site how they handle it. This isn't legal advice.
Photography, copywriting, and moving an old site.
Tight deadlines, like a launch in two weeks.

How do you choose the right option for your budget?

You need a menu, hours and directions online this month, on a small budget: a website builder. Pick a plan with no sales fee if you'll take payments.
You want ordering and marketing in one place, and a fixed monthly cost suits you: a restaurant platform. Read the per-order fees and ask who owns the domain and the site.
You have several locations, want ordering without commission, or want to own the site: have it built. Compare quotes by what they include, not just the total.

Whatever you choose, ask every provider the same questions. What's included? What costs extra per order? What happens to the site, the domain and the menu if you leave?

For transparency, here's where my own pricing sits. My restaurant website plan is $49 a month plus $199 setup, with 0% commission on orders. Online ordering is optional, and card fees go to Stripe only if you take orders. For a custom-designed site, I give a fixed quote in writing before any work starts.

Questions people ask

How much does a restaurant website cost per month?

About $17 to $159 a month on a builder like Squarespace or Wix, and about $159 to $499 a month on a restaurant platform like Popmenu or Owner.com. A custom-built site usually costs little each month beyond hosting, the domain and any maintenance plan you choose.

Is a website builder good enough for a restaurant?

For a single location with a menu, hours and directions, often yes. It gets harder with online ordering rules, several branches or a second language. And you'll do the setup and updates yourself.

How much does it cost to add online ordering to a restaurant website?

Expect a card fee of about 2.9% + 30¢ per order on Stripe or Square. On top of that, some platforms charge a subscription, a per-order fee ($1.00 on Popmenu) or a percentage (5% on Owner.com's $249 plan). A custom ordering system costs more to build, but you pay no commission per order.

Why is a custom restaurant website more expensive?

Because it's designed around your menu, your locations and how you take orders, and a person does that work. In return, you can own the site and stop paying a platform every month.

Who should own my restaurant's domain?

You should. Register it in your own name, or make sure your contract says it's yours. Then you can move to another provider without losing your web address.

Not sure how much your restaurant website will cost? Estimate your website budget before requesting a quote.

If you'd like a second opinion, I'm happy to look at your current site and send you the three changes I'd make first. Just request a free website review. You can also see my restaurant website design services, or my restaurant websites with online ordering if you want orders to come to you directly.

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