Best website builders for restaurants (2026)

Better not. A menu written on the page reads on a phone without zooming, and search engines can read the dishes; Squarespace's own help calls its menu blocks "a great alternative to embedding .pdf menus, which aren't always as SEO-friendly". The menu row in the scores above shows how each builder does it.

It helps. The delivery apps take a commission on every order, while an order through your own site keeps the customer and the margin. Square's ordering page says its pickup and delivery orders come "without marketplace commissions". If ordering matters more to you than anything else, the ordering row in the scores above is the one to read.

The menu as text with prices, your hours and address, a reservation or order button on every page, private dining and catering details, and photos of the food. Our guides to making a restaurant website and starting a restaurant go further.

A rule of thumb for where the money goes, not a law: about 30% of sales on food, about 30% on labor and about 30% on everything else (rent, utilities, insurance, marketing), which leaves about 10% before tax if nothing slips. Real restaurants land near it rather than on it. Our guide to starting a restaurant prints the National Restaurant Association's own 2024 medians instead — food 32.0% of sales and wages 36.5% at full-service restaurants, occupancy 5.7% — and its finding that 42% of operators were not profitable in 2025; the profit, when it comes, comes from drinks, catering and private events. The website's share of the rule is the margin the delivery apps take: an order through your own site keeps the 25% to 30% a third-party app charges per order, which is why the ordering row in the scores above is worth reading before the design ones.

Pick a builder from the table, then give it five things: your menu as text with prices, your hours and address, a reservation or order button, your private dining and catering offer with a form that asks for the date and the number of guests, and your own photos of the food and the room. Every builder here starts from a template or writes a first draft with AI; on Zarla the draft is written from one sentence about your restaurant in about 30 seconds, menu section included, and you see it before you pay anything. Then put the address on your Google Business Profile, link the ordering and reservation services you use from every page, and ask regulars for a review. Our guide to making a restaurant website walks through it page by page.

Three prices, from our guide to making a restaurant website. Doing it yourself on a builder: each builder's own plan, from a free plan on the builder's address to the restaurant platforms priced with the rest of their system, with every figure in the price cards above and in the cost question on this page. Hiring an agency: about $3,000 to $15,000 one-off plus $50 to $150 a month for hosting and maintenance. A restaurant platform such as Toast or BentoBox: the website comes with the ordering and the point of sale, so the price is the package's. The cheapest route that still takes orders and bookings on your own site is a builder with those built in, which the scores above show. Zarla is free to build and preview, and you pay when you publish, on the Premium plan.

The one a hungry person can use on a phone in ten seconds: the menu as text near the top, with prices and dietary marks; hours, address and parking in the first screen; one button to book a table and one to order, on every page; your own photos of the dishes and the room rather than stock; and private dining and catering on their own page. Nothing on this page scores looks, because taste isn't a test, and the scores above are about what the site does. For real examples, our restaurant website gallery shows finished sites, and the menu row in the scores shows which builders keep the menu as text you edit rather than a PDF.

Read them knowing who wrote them. Yola's list, "The 5 best website builders for restaurants" (last updated September 18, 2026), is written by Yola and ranks Yola first, then GoDaddy, Wix, SITE123 and Hostinger, at "$9.95/mo" with a free plan; it's straight about two limits, "No built-in online ordering system; a third-party integration would be needed for that" and "Reservation management is limited to enquiry forms; dedicated booking platforms go further", and it says "GoDaddy leads on reservation tools". Online orders and reservations are two of the three tests behind the second row of the fits table above, the one Wix and BentoBox lead. Google's AI Overview for this search on October 26, 2026 named Wix, Squarespace, Hostinger and GloriaFood. Hostinger's builder page says "Describe what you need to get a first version in seconds. Then customize every detail with the drag-and-drop editor to make it yours." and, during its sale, that paid plans "start as low as just $2.49/mo" on a 48-month term that "Renews at $10.99/mo."; we haven't scored Hostinger here, but it is scored in our best AI website builders guide. GloriaFood, an Oracle product, says "Our online ordering system includes the website builder for restaurants - a powerful tool capable of generating your custom website in a matter of minutes." and calls itself "an all-in-one restaurant platform that provides free online ordering for restaurants for delivery, takeaway and dine-in, table reservations, pre-ordering, as well as automated restaurant marketing campaigns, and more": the ordering is the product and the website comes with it, the reverse of the builders scored here. When we asked ChatGPT the same question that day it named Wix, Squarespace, Square Online, Toast Websites and BentoBox, all five scored on this page. We read Yola's, Hostinger's and GloriaFood's pages on October 26, 2026; none of the three is scored here.

Wix, BentoBox, Square and Toast have it built in. It takes another tool or a workaround on Zarla (no food ordering; a store with pickup); Squarespace (through ChowNow, Tock or Allday); WordPress.com (with an ordering plugin); GoDaddy (online ordering through ChowNow). We read each on the builder's own pages on October 12, 2026.

Wix and BentoBox have it built in. It takes another tool or a workaround on Zarla (no table booking; embed OpenTable or Resy); Squarespace (OpenTable or Tock blocks); WordPress.com (OpenTable block, from Premium); GoDaddy (OpenTable form, on Standard and up); Square (through OpenTable or SevenRooms); Toast (Toast Tables, a separate subscription). We read each on the builder's own pages on October 12, 2026.

Building and previewing one can cost nothing on most builders; a live site on your own domain costs money on every builder here. Wix: Core, the cheapest plan with bookings, is $29/mo billed yearly. Light is $17/mo without bookings, and there's a free plan on a wixsite.com address. BentoBox: Only for restaurants on Clover's point of sale, per its pricing page, which shows no public price. Squarespace: Basic is $19/mo and Core $29/mo, billed yearly, after a 14-day free trial. Online booking is a separate Acuity Scheduling subscription. WordPress.com: Personal is $4/mo billed yearly; form file uploads need Business, $25/mo billed yearly. Plugins can add their own cost. GoDaddy: Websites + Marketing plans are priced by country, and GoDaddy's page didn't show us a US price, so check it for yours. Square: Square Free, $0/mo, includes the online store, online ordering and the booking site on a Square address. Your own domain needs Square Plus, $49/mo per location billed monthly, after a 30-day free trial. Card payments carry Square's processing fees. Toast: Part of Toast's Digital Storefront Pro Suite on a Toast point-of-sale account; its help page shows no public price. Zarla is free to build and preview, and you pay when you publish, on the Premium plan. Each price is the builder's own, read on its pricing or help pages (September 28, 2026, October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026); check it for your country before you buy.

Yes: Wix placed first of eight here, with 15 of 18 points. Of the tests that are particular to restaurants, it gets a tick on "Your menu on the page, easy to change", "Online orders for pickup or delivery" and "Table reservations online". The catch: bookings need the Core plan rather than the cheapest one, and pages for each town you serve are yours to write.