Restaurant websites cost guide
How Much Does a Restaurant Website Cost in 2026?
Published price ranges for DIY builders, agencies and restaurant-specific platforms, plus the recurring and per-order fees that change the real total.
- Options observed
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- Rows with sources
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- Cost drivers
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- Research sources
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A restaurant website can cost anywhere from $0 a month on a free POS-bundled plan to $15,000 or more for a custom build with direct ordering. The published ranges overlap and disagree, because nearly every one comes from an agency or software vendor pricing its own service. No independent survey of what restaurants actually pay was found, so treat each range below as a seller's quote, not a market average.
Read the figures in three layers. First is the build: a one-time project fee from a freelancer or agency, or nothing if you use a builder. Second is the recurring cost: hosting, domain, maintenance, or a monthly platform subscription. Third is per-order and payment-processing fees, which can end up larger than the subscription if you take a lot of online orders. Owner.com's Flexible plan, for example, is $249/mo plus a 5% restaurant fee per order. At $10,000 a month in online orders, that is $500 in fees on top of the subscription. That is arithmetic on the published rate, not a vendor example.
Each row in the table names its source. Dates show when a page was seen or published, and a few vendor pages could not be read directly, so those figures are marked as secondary. Confirm current pricing with the vendor before you commit.
Price ranges
What the research found
| Option | Low | High | Unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most US restaurants (agency/freelancer build) | $2,500 | $9,000 | one-time project | ION Hospitality (Aug 13, 2026) |
| Menu and contact site | $1,500 | $4,000 | one-time project | ION Hospitality (Aug 13, 2026) |
| Site with reservations | $4,000 | $8,000 |
Cost drivers
Why quotes vary
Features: reservations, ordering, gift cards
Agency pages consistently price by feature set. ION Hospitality puts a menu-and-contact site at $1,500–$4,000, a site with reservations at $4,000–$8,000, and direct ordering at $8,000–$15,000+. The agencies do not agree with each other on exact bands, and Blue Ridge and Terrain cite no outside data for theirs.
Number of locations
ION Hospitality lists multi-location sites at $15,000–$25,000+, well above its single-location tiers. On subscription platforms such as Square, pricing is per location per month.
Photography and copy
Content is often priced separately from the build. ION Hospitality lists food photography at $800–$3,000 and copywriting at $500–$1,500. Restaurant Website Builder lists content at about $150 per page.
POS and reservation integrations
ION Hospitality lists reservation widget integration at $200–$600 and POS or inventory integration at $1,500–$5,000.
Per-order and payment-processing fees
Ordering platforms charge on volume as well as monthly. Owner.com's Flexible plan adds a 5% restaurant fee per order to $249/mo. Popmenu is reported at $1.00 per online order. Square's online payments run 3.3% + 30¢ on the Free plan and 2.9% + 30¢ on Plus and Premium. Of the agency and builder pages read, only RICHMENU, which sells a competing product, treats these as a hidden cost.
Recurring costs after launch
Hosting, domain, SSL and maintenance repeat every year or month. Restaurant Website Builder lists hosting at $100–$500/yr, SSL at $10–$300/yr and maintenance at $40–$300/mo. ION Hospitality lists managed WordPress hosting at $25–$50/mo.
Scope check
What should be included
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Owner.com's plans include website, ordering, app and SEO pages, month-to-month with no cancellation fee.
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Squarespace annual plans include a free domain.
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Square's Free plan includes an "Online site" at $0/mo per location, with processing fees on online payments.
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Wix has no dedicated restaurant plan and offers a 14-day money-back guarantee on annual plans, which are paid up front.
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Agency quotes often exclude photography, copywriting, reservation widgets and POS integration, which ION Hospitality prices as separate line items.
Buyer caution
Red flags to watch for
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A quote that does not say whether per-order fees apply. Owner.com's Flexible plan charges 5% per order on top of $249/mo, and a separate 5% fee is charged to customers.
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Old pricing for a product that has changed. The official BentoBox site now says "BentoBox is now Clover" and that products are "only available to Clover POS customers." Third-party sites still list $119–$479/mo and a $0.99 per-order fee. Treat those as stale or unconfirmed.
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A Google Business Profile menu link that points straight to a third-party ordering or delivery service. Google's guidelines say menu URLs can't be direct links to those services. Ordering links go in a separate field.
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A business.site or negocio.site address in your Google Business Profile website field. Websites made with Business Profile shut down in March 2024, and those domains were removed from the website field.
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Questions
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