Done by AI · not an agency
Brief Zarla the way you'd brief a web designer. Its AI designs your site in about 30 seconds: the menu as a real page, a map, a table request form and a call button, then private dining, catering and neighborhood pages, up to your plan's page limit. No sales call, no weeks-long build.
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Sample designs
Six Zarla designs, each a made-up restaurant: a seven-course tasting room, a steakhouse, a farm-to-table room, a ramen shop, a smokehouse and a poke bar. Start from one and the AI rewrites it around yours, or let your brief decide.
Fine dining · reservations
'An Evening Worth Slowing Down For' over 'River North, Chicago', the hours 'Wed-Sun 5:30pm-10:30pm' in the first screen, 'A Glimpse of the Table' as the menu and 'Reserve your evening at Aureum' as the ask, for the room people book for an occasion.
Steakhouse · private dining
'Where Fire Meets Flavor' under 'Nashville's Finest', 'Prime Cuts Only' and 'Award-Winning Wine List' in the trust bar, 'Private Events', 'Corporate Dinners' and 'Catering' among the dining experiences and a 'Book Your Table' form, for the house that sells the big night out.
Farm-to-table · menu changes weekly
'A Season on a Plate in Hudson, NY' with 'Menu changes weekly · 9 Hudson Valley farms · Local wine pairings' as the trust line and 'This Week · The Tasting & the Table' as the menu, for the kitchen whose menu is never the same twice.
Ramen · late night, takeout
'All-Night Ramen in Chicago' in a playful poster layout, '20-hour house broth · Open till 2am nightly · Veg bowls done right' as the trust line and 'Pick Your Broth' as the menu right under it, for the shop whose hours are the pitch.
BBQ · order ahead and catering
'14-Hour Brisket, Smoked Over Post Oak in Kansas City' in a credentials layout, 'Sold by the Pound' as the menu, 'The Proof Is in the Bark' as the photo gallery and 'Beat the Line, or Feed a Crowd' as the order-ahead and catering ask, for the pit that sells out.
Fast casual · online ordering
'Fresh Poke & Build-a-Bowl in San Diego' with a proof strip ('Sashimi-grade fish daily'), 'Four Steps to Your Bowl' as the how-it-works and 'Order online for pickup in Pacific Beach' as the ask, for the counter that lives on lunch orders.
The checklist
How a restaurant website should be laid out, top to bottom: six things that take a hungry visitor from a search to a table, an order or a party booking, each one shown on a Zarla design.
The visitor is deciding where to eat in the next hour, on a phone, probably in a car. Put the days and hours you serve in the first screen, the neighborhood above the headline and the map one tap away, so the one question that loses a cover ('are they open right now?') never gets asked. A room that only serves five nights a week says which five, right there.
A reservation request your host confirms is the form for the first screen of a dining room: the date, the party size, the time and a phone number, with a line about private dining for parties over eight so the office party finds its way to the right person. If you run live availability through a reservations service, its widget sits in the same spot instead; either way the request lands with the host, not in a spam folder.
A photo of a printed menu and a PDF both fail on a phone and both hide from Google. Put the dishes on the page as text, with prices and the sections a server would use, and change them by typing when the special changes; a kitchen that rewrites the menu weekly says so in the trust line and dates the page. Say what's in a dish and invite the question about allergies rather than promising a plate is free of anything.
Nobody reads a restaurant's story before they've seen the food. The signature dish goes straight under the headline with its photo and price, the short menu under that, and the story (the broth, the pit, the farms) further down for the people who are already coming. One number that proves the craft (a 20-hour broth, a 14-hour brisket) does more than three paragraphs.
A fast-casual counter lives on orders placed from the page, so the 'order online' button goes in the first screen and again at the foot, pointing at the ordering provider you've chosen. Choose it with the fees in view: a delivery marketplace takes a share of every order it delivers, a direct-ordering platform charges a monthly fee and sometimes a per-order fee, and a free ordering system charges for card payments; the table on this page has today's figures. The website's job is to send the order to the right place and say that pickup is a block from the beach.
The pictures sell the table: the plate, the bark, the room at eight o'clock, shot in your own light rather than a stock library's. Under them, the two orders a regular night can't bring in get their own door: a private-event inquiry asking the date, the guest count and the occasion, and a catering request by the pound or the head, both landing in your inbox, with an email alert, so the office party is answered before the lunch rush.
Process and turnaround
For comparison, on the pages of the people who sell restaurant sites: 'many restaurants can launch within a week' at the website-and-ordering platform; 'Give us 5 days' at the restaurant website platform; the owner-run studio answers a quote within one business day but publishes no build time; and the cost-estimate guide's restaurant page says 3–5 weeks for a simple site, 5–8 weeks with reservations and online ordering and 10–16 weeks for several locations.
Finish one sentence about your restaurant: the food, the nights you serve, the room and the neighborhood.
Zarla's AI designs your home page with call buttons and a quote form, then adds your menu as a page, pages for private dining, catering and takeout, and the neighborhoods you feed, up to your plan's page limit.
Click any section to swap in your dishes, your prices and your photos of the room. Or type it: "add the fall tasting menu and take the oyster special off."
Publish on a Premium or Business plan and connect your domain.
What's included
Revisions
The owner-run studio includes WordPress training so you edit your own content and sells maintenance with content edits from $99 a month; the website-and-ordering platform assigns a specialist for setup and migration and publishes no change terms; the restaurant website platform says 'keep your site updated anytime'. With Zarla you make the changes yourself, whenever you want.
Change any section's words, photos, colors or order yourself. As often as you like, on every plan. No AI involved.
Type what you want and the AI makes the change. Typed changes use AI credits: a starter allowance on Free, a monthly allowance on Premium and Business, with a daily limit.
Move to a different design any time and keep your words, photos and pages. Layout, colors and fonts change; your content isn't rewritten.
Prices
Prices web designers and restaurant platforms publish on their own websites for restaurant sites, ordering and reservations, checked 3 November 2026. The per-order and per-guest fees matter more than the subscription. Not like-for-like: an agency's price includes people.
| Who | Upfront | Ongoing | Time to launch | Changes after launch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An owner-run web studio in Las Vegas, NV (its restaurant web design page)Custom sites built in-house since 2005, with hosting and maintenance bundled monthly and WordPress training on every package; larger builds quoted per project | Websites from $1,500; packages at $1,500 and $2,500 setup; larger builds typically $2,500 to $15,000 | $30 or $200 a month with the two packages; hosting from $29.99 a month; WordPress maintenance from $99 a month | Not published; a quote within one business day | WordPress training so you edit your own content; maintenance covers updates and content edits |
| A restaurant website and online ordering platform (prices in USD and CAD)A website, online ordering, a branded app, loyalty and email and text marketing, with setup and migration done by a specialist; month-to-month | Not published; setup and migration included | $249 a month plus a 5% restaurant fee per order, or $499 a month flat with no restaurant fees; guests pay a 5% order support fee on both | Many restaurants launch within a week | Not published; no long-term contracts, no cancellation fees |
| A restaurant website builder with ordering, reservations and gift cards built in (prices in USD and CAD)A no-code site builder with themes, direct online ordering, its own reservation system, gift cards and events, priced per location | Not published; 14-day free trial, no card | $70 a month per location, no contracts; a 3% fee paid by the guest on orders | — | — |
| A commission-free ordering platform sold by module, per locationWeb ordering in three tiers (75, 210 or unlimited orders and reservations a month), a website module and a reservations module; extra orders at $1.90 each | Not published; 7-day trial, no card | $49 / $89 / $169 a month for web ordering; $1 a month for the website; $9 a month for reservations | — | — |
| A free online ordering and reservations system (owned by a large software company)Ordering and reservation widgets for your own website with no monthly fee and no commission; paid modules for card payments, reservation deposits and promotions | No setup fee | $0 for ordering and reservations; $29 a month for online card payments; $0.5 a guest for accepted reservation deposits; $19 a month for promo marketing | — | — |
| A delivery marketplace's merchant plans (for comparison: what an app order costs you)No website of yours; orders through its app and drivers, plus its own commission-free online ordering for your site | No activation, subscription or software fees | 15% / 25% / 30% of the order for delivery by plan and 6% for pickup; its online ordering for your own site is commission-free with a payment processing fee it doesn't state | — | — |
| A restaurant website platform (page one for the phrase)Restaurant templates, hosting, support and online ordering, with a money-back guarantee; no plan prices on the page | Not published | Not published | 'Give us 5 days'; 'Done by this Weekend' | 'Keep your site updated anytime' |
| Market rangesAs published by a cost-estimate guide's restaurant page (updated July 2026) | Menu and contact $1,500–$4,000 (median $2,750) · with reservations $4,000–$8,000 (median $6,000) · with online ordering or several locations $8,000–$25,000+ | $30–$80 a month for a basic site, $80–$200 with reservations, $200–$400 with online ordering, before per-order and per-cover fees | 3–5 weeks for a simple site; 5–8 weeks with reservations and online ordering; 10–16 weeks for several locations | — |
| Zarla's AINot an agency | Free to design and preview | A Premium or Business plan to publish · see pricing | About 30 seconds to a first design; publish the same day | Click to edit any time; typed changes use AI credits |
The honest part
Zarla does the design part of an agency's job with AI. Here's what you'd still be paying people for.
Zarla partners are independent agencies and freelancers who build on Zarla and do the marketing work: SEO, ads and growth. The AI does the design; a person does the rest.
Browse Zarla partners →No. Zarla is AI. It does the design part of an agency's job, the layout, words, pages and forms, from a one-sentence brief. There's no designer on the other end. If you want a person for marketing or SEO, Zarla partners are independent agencies and freelancers who work on Zarla sites.
Where a restaurant site has a published price: from $1,500 at a owner-run studio ($1,500 or $2,500 setup with $30 or $200 a month); $249 a month plus a 5% fee on each order, or $499 a month flat, at a website-and-ordering platform; $70 a month per location at a restaurant website builder with ordering built in; $49 to $169 a month for web ordering on a modular platform; and $0 for a free ordering system that charges $29 a month for card payments. A cost-estimate guide puts a menu-and-contact site at $1,500 to $4,000 and one with reservations at $4,000 to $8,000. Designing and previewing on Zarla is free; you choose a Premium or Business plan when you publish.
Your hours and the neighborhood in the first screen, the menu as a real page with prices, a map, a table request or your reservations widget, an order-online button pointing at your ordering provider, photos of the food and the room, a private-event and catering inquiry, gift cards and your reviews. Say what's in a dish and invite the allergy question instead of promising a plate is free of anything. Zarla builds the menu page, the map and the inquiry form from your brief and adds the private dining, catering and neighborhood pages up to your plan's page limit. Customers can attach up to five photos of the job to the form, so you can often price it from the photos instead of a site visit. The form doesn't work out a price for you — you read the request and quote it yourself.
Hardly anyone prints a timeline: the website-and-ordering platform says many restaurants launch within a week, the restaurant website platform says 'give us 5 days', the owner-run studio answers a quote within one business day but gives no build time, and the cost-estimate guide's restaurant page reckons 3–5 weeks for a simple site, 5–8 weeks with reservations and ordering and 10–16 weeks for several locations. Zarla's first design takes about 30 seconds; after your changes, you can publish the same day on a paid plan.
Not in a system of Zarla's own: Zarla holds no live table availability and runs no takeout with prep times or kitchen tickets. What it builds is the menu: an online menu with prices and categories, plus a private-event inquiry form. For live reservations and ordering, paste your provider's widget or link into the Custom Code box in Site settings, and compare what each charges in the table above before you choose, since a marketplace's share of an order and a platform's per-order fee add up faster than any subscription. Private dinners and parties come through the inquiry form, land in your leads inbox and send you an email alert.
Yes. Sell branded digital gift cards from your website; recipients get them by email and you track every sale, balance and redemption. Link the cards from the header before the holidays and from the private dining page, where the people buying for someone else already are.
Yes. Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.
Finish the sentence with your town. Zarla's AI designs your site from it.
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