Pricing guide
A restaurant website costs what the page has to do
People looking for dinner are on a phone, often in a car. They need: are you open, what is the food, can they call or see a menu. If your site is a PDF of a 2019 brunch special, they will pick the place with a tap-to-call button. That job is not a 40-page brand book. It is not a clone of DoorDash. It is a page that works in a parking lot. The price should match that job, not a hotel group’s RFP.
Most standard jobs finish in under 72 hours when the brief is clear. A hosted website is $49/mo, hosting included if you want it ($54). Full ecommerce, a 200-item menu you change daily inside a custom CMS, or a homemade ordering cart is a different quote. We do not fake a cart at this price. We link the ordering app you already answer.
What the numbers actually buy
A DIY builder (Wix, Squarespace) is $0–$40 a month plus your nights. Fine if you like the editor and you will update the special. You still pay rent, and leaving is a rebuild. A Fiverr gig can be $50. It can also be stock plates of food you do not cook and a seller who vanishes when the form 404s. An agency restaurant site can be $8,000–$35,000 with photography and a strategy deck. Right if you already have a group and a marketing person. Wrong if you needed hours on the homepage yesterday.
What you get: a layout built for a phone, tonight’s hours, real food photos you send (phone photos beat stock), address and a map, tap-to-call, a form for parties if you want it, a link to the ordering app you already use, title and meta tags, Open Graph, hosting setup, help pointing the domain, one round of changes. Not a ranking prize. Not a second POS.
| What you need | Typical money | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Hours, phone, three food photos, this weekend | $49 hosted (+$49/month host) | One scroll. You or we host it |
| Online ordering you will actually run | Toast / Square / DoorDash you already pay | We link it. We do not clone it |
| A 200-item CMS you edit every morning | Quoted | Not the brochure price |
| DIY template, monthly | $16–$40 / month + your time | You are the designer. Leaving is a rebuild |
What belongs on the restaurant page
Tonight’s hours, not a paragraph about “our journey.” If hours change on holidays, say how you post that — Instagram is fine if you actually post it, and the site should say so. Real food photos. The dining room if you want people to walk in. Address, parking only if it actually matters, tap-to-call, a reservations link if you use OpenTable or a phone. A menu as a page or a current PDF if that is what the kitchen will keep true. A stale PDF is worse than “ask us, here is the phone.”
Do not build a fourth ordering system. If you already live in an app, one button. Do not embed three apps plus a PDF plus a Google Form. Do not autoplay a video in a parking lot on cellular. Do not hide the phone behind a chatbot. Forms here notify tampasbestdj@gmail.com. Yours should notify a box you check during service, or do not put a form. A dead party form is how you miss a rehearsal dinner and still pay for the site.
What we will not sell you
We do not promise #1 for “best tacos” or “restaurants near me.” Local pack is Google Business Profile, reviews, and whether you are actually open. Claim the profile. Match the hours to the site. Put the real URL in the website field. Basic SEO is tags, not a prize. We do not write fake awards. We do not put a TripAdvisor badge you bought. If you have a real inspection grade or a real wine list, send it.
Photography: use the phone this afternoon. Wait for a shooter only if the room is about to change and you already booked them. The 72-hour clock starts when photos exist, not when you meant to take them. $49/month if a single scroll is enough. Worldwide, 24/7. Phone (813) 328-6079. Look at live work if you want to see what this shop ships. Then the restaurant page if you want the short version of the product.
Free next step: paste the URL diners hit now — PDF, Facebook, or a site from 2016.