Compared Sep 2, 2026
Best website builders for restaurants
Eight tools for a restaurant that wants orders arriving on its own website, ordered by what you already run: the delivery marketplace, the register at the counter, or nothing at all.
Most roundups of restaurant website builders are sorted by how the templates look, which is not the question a restaurant is asking. The question is where the order lands and who takes a slice of it on the way. Two different charges hide inside the phrase “commission-free”: the platform’s own cut of the ticket, and the card processing underneath it, which nobody escapes. Naratake Storefront Pro is $79/month ($758/year) and takes 0% commission on every order, because the card is charged through the restaurant’s own Stripe account — the money never passes through us, so there is nothing for us to take a cut of, and Stripe’s own card fee still applies. Its pricing page listed “2.9% + $0.30 per successful transaction for domestic cards” when we read it on Sep 2, 2026. The order below is what you already run rather than a ranking: the platforms built to pull volume back off the delivery apps first, then the register you already ring sales on, then the tools that start from an empty page. Each competitor row carries one sentence that vendor published about itself, read on Sep 2, 2026 and linked at the foot, plus one line from us about who that sentence suits. It is not an audit of the product behind it — for that, open the link.
What this page judges
- Platform cut, or card fee?
- Two charges wear the same word. The platform cut is what the ordering company takes for letting the order happen. The card fee is what a processor takes for moving the money, and it is there whatever the website costs. A platform at 0% can still leave you worse off per ticket than one at 2%, if the processing underneath it costs more.
- Whose address the order arrives at
- An order placed on a page you own leaves you the customer as well as the money: the email, the phone number, what they ordered last time, the ability to say something to them next Tuesday. An order placed on a profile somebody else hosts leaves you the money. Ask each vendor what you are allowed to take with you the day you leave.
- What has to be bought before the order button works
- Ordering is sometimes inside the website plan, sometimes an add-on line, and sometimes a second company with a second contract. On ours it is a plan boundary written down rather than discovered: ordering and reservations go live on the published site on Storefront Pro at $79/month or $758/year, and Storefront at $49/month or $468/year builds and previews both. Price the plan where the order button actually works, not the one on the poster.
The eight, in their own words
| Tool | Best for | In their words, and what we make of it |
|---|---|---|
| ChowNow | A restaurant doing most of its volume on delivery apps and ready to pull its regulars onto a channel it controls | Its pricing page opens with “Simple, transparent plans for independent restaurants ready to own their orders, their marketing, and their growth.” (Sep 2, 2026). The word own is the pitch, and the shape of the offer is a package rather than a website: the site, the ordering and the follow-up are sold together. So compare the quote you are given against the sum of what the marketplaces take from you in a month, not against a hosting fee. |
| Owner.com | A takeout-heavy kitchen with enough direct volume that a per-order fee and a flat monthly fee are a real arithmetic question | Its pricing page answers the fee question in its own words: “On both plans, guests pay a 5% order support fee that covers fulfillment and customer service.” (Sep 2, 2026). That sentence is worth reading twice, because it is about your guest rather than about you, and a charge the customer sees at checkout is still attached to your name. Right for an owner who has done the arithmetic on both sides of the ticket and decided the direct channel still wins. |
| Menufy | An owner who would rather approve a menu change than make one, and wants the listings and follow-up handled too | Its pricing page says “Every plan comes with the full Menufy platform. No tiers, no add-ons, no surprises.” (Sep 2, 2026). Read that as a done-for-you service rather than an editor: what is on sale is the work. It suits a kitchen that counts the evenings nobody spends on the website as part of the price, and it is the wrong purchase if you enjoy moving the photos around yourself. |
| Square Online | A restaurant already ringing sales through a Square register that wants online orders on the same tickets | Its online ordering page says “All orders, whether placed online or in person, come through your Square Point of Sale and go right to the kitchen. No need to juggle extra tablets at your counter.” (Sep 2, 2026). There is the whole trade in one sentence: the register you already run becomes the thing the website reports to. Strong if the counter is where your day is decided, weaker if you were shopping for a website first and a register second. |
| Popmenu | A menu people argue about — dishes with photos, reviews and regulars who have a usual | Its home page says “Commission-free ordering lives on your site. You keep more profits.” (Sep 2, 2026). Take commission-free as a statement about the platform’s own cut and settle the rest — plan level, what counts as an add-on, card processing — on the pricing page it links to. A fair shape for a place whose dishes do the selling, and a heavy one for a counter with six items on a board. |
| Naratake | A restaurant that wants the site, the ordering and the reservations on one bill, at 0% commission, with the source code afterwards | Naratake Storefront Pro is $79/month ($758/year) and takes 0% commission on every order; the card is charged through the restaurant’s own Stripe account, so the money never touches Naratake, and Stripe’s own card fee still applies. Ordering and table reservations go live on that plan, in the same editor and the same back office as the rest of the site — a working multi-page site rather than a one-page menu, from 40 industry starting points, 15 design styles and 111 components. Writing the menu is where AI sits, in LocalSite Studio — the desktop app running this same editor: the panel drafts descriptions off the dishes already entered, a dozen at a pass and in English and Chinese, and rewrites any single block you right-click. It runs on your own Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek key, so that provider bills you at its own price, we resell no tokens and mark nothing up, and nothing reaches the menu until you accept it. The Stripe account stays in your name: you paste both live keys once, and from then on every ticket settles straight into it. The back office brings its own register, where a sale rung at the counter and an order placed on the web sit on the same live board, so one screen carries the whole service. And the boundary is a plan, not a rollout: Storefront ($49/month or $468/year) builds and previews ordering and reservations, Storefront Pro is the plan that runs them on the published site, and the publish report names section by section what actually goes live. What Pro also hands over is the customer record and a full source-code export of a real Next.js app, database and back office included. |
| Wix (Wix Restaurants) | A restaurant with more than one branch that wants menus, hours and ordering managed from a single editor | Its restaurant ordering page offers to “Allow customers to order from any branch by featuring menus, hours and info from your restaurant locations on a single site—and manage them from one dashboard.” (Sep 2, 2026). Branch is the operative word: that sentence is written for a business with more than one address, and that is where the editor earns its keep. Settle the price of the combination you would actually publish — the site plan plus whatever the ordering runs on — before you compare monthly figures with anything else here. |
| Squarespace | A dining room where the photography sells the table and takeout is the smaller half of the business | Its restaurant page introduces the takeout half like this: “Equip your restaurant website with commission-free online ordering for pickup or delivery. ChowNow gives you everything you need to manage, process, and track your takeout business.” (Sep 2, 2026). Read the second sentence as a routing instruction — the website is one purchase and the ordering is another, with another company’s name on it. A good buy when the room and the pictures are doing the selling and takeout is a bolt-on you are content to sign for separately. |
Who this page is not for
If most of your tickets arrive from a delivery marketplace and you are not willing to spend anything on moving those customers across — a card in the bag, a sign at the register, a message to the regulars, your own link at the top of your Google profile — then a 0% platform fee is worth nothing to you. Zero percent of an order that never comes is zero. What the marketplace commission buys is demand you did not have to create, and until you are ready to create some of it yourself, the honest advice is to keep paying it and put the effort into the food. Delivery itself is the second exemption: nothing on this page drives a car, so if you need somebody else’s drivers, that is a separate contract whatever the website costs. And where we fit: Naratake is for the restaurant that wants the orders arriving on a board of its own — the back office carries its own register, so a sale rung at the counter and an order placed on the web sit on the same live screen — and wants the card money settling into its own Stripe account, which you connect with your own live keys. Ordering and reservations go live on Storefront Pro at $79/month or $758/year; Storefront at $49/month or $468/year builds and previews them. Bring the demand, and the customer record, the menu and the tables all stay in one back office.
Questions people actually ask
Does “commission-free” mean an order costs me nothing?
No, and the distance between those two things is where most of the confusion on this subject lives. Commission-free is a statement about the platform’s own cut. Card processing sits underneath it and is charged by whoever moves the money. On our side the arrangement is structural rather than generous: a published site charges the card through the restaurant’s own Stripe account, so the money never passes through Naratake and there is no ticket for us to take a slice of. Stripe’s fee still applies, and its pricing page listed “2.9% + $0.30 per successful transaction for domestic cards” when we read it on Sep 2, 2026. Whichever platform you shortlist, ask the question in two halves: what does the company take, and what does the processor take.
An AI answer recommended BentoBox. Can a new restaurant still sign up?
Read their own page before you book a demo. On Sep 2, 2026 getbento.com carried the heading “BentoBox is now Clover”, and its FAQ answered the new-customer question this way: “Currently, BentoBox products/services are only available to Clover POS customers.” That is the vendor speaking about its own availability, which is the source that settles it. It is also why BentoBox is not a row in the table above: this page keeps out any vendor whose price a new customer cannot look up. Treat a name in a generated summary as a starting point for checking rather than a conclusion — those summaries are assembled from pages written months apart, which is the reason every quote here carries the date we read it.
What happened to GloriaFood, and what should I move to?
Its own home page answers the first half, and that answer is why it is not in the table. On Sep 2, 2026 gloriafood.com said “GloriaFood has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups.” If you are already running it, treat that as notice to plan a move rather than as an emergency, and treat any roundup still offering it as a free option as older than that sentence. On the second half, the thing worth carrying across is not the ordering widget — it is your menu and your customer list, in a format the next system can read. Ask that question of every vendor in this table before you sign, because it is the cheapest question to ask now and the most expensive to ask later.
I already get orders through a delivery app. Is my own ordering page worth the trouble?
That depends on one thing, and being honest about it will tell you more than any feature comparison. A marketplace is not only a checkout — it is demand. Somebody who did not know your name typed “pizza near me” and found you. Your own page has none of that behind it until you put some there: an insert in the bag, a sign at the register, a message to the people who already come in, your own link at the top of your Google profile. Restaurants that do that steadily move a slice of their repeat business onto a channel that keeps the customer record. Restaurants that skip it end up paying for a second checkout nobody uses. Decide which of those you are willing to be before you buy anything on this page.
Is online ordering part of the website plan, or a separate purchase?
Often separate, and that is where the figure on a homepage stops being the figure you pay. Squarespace’s restaurant page introduces the takeout half with “Equip your restaurant website with commission-free online ordering for pickup or delivery. ChowNow gives you everything you need to manage, process, and track your takeout business.” (Sep 2, 2026) — worth reading as a routing instruction rather than a feature list. Put the same question to every vendor before you commit: what is the bill in month two, on the plan where a customer can actually finish an order? Ours is a plan boundary rather than an add-on. Storefront Pro at $79/month or $758/year is the plan where ordering and reservations run live; Storefront at $49/month or $468/year builds and previews them, and publishes the site without them.
Can table reservations and takeout orders live on the same site?
On several of these the website and the ordering are two products stitched together, and one of them says so on its own page. Squarespace’s restaurant page describes the booking half as “Add reservations, online ordering, and delivery with Tock booking to any page on your site to automate your table management.” (Sep 2, 2026), which names the company you would be signing with for tables. On Naratake both halves sit in one editor and one back office: reservations by date, party size and time slot, and a menu with pickup or delivery rules, both live on Storefront Pro. Whichever way you go, settle this first — which screen is your staff watching during service? One screen that shows the seven o’clock booking and the seven o’clock pickup together is worth a surprising amount on a Friday.
Where these numbers came from
Every claim above was read off the provider’s own page on Sep 2, 2026. Pages change without notice; if one of these is out of date, the linked page is the one to believe, not us.
If the order button is the part you are missing
Naratake puts the menu, the order and the table reservation in the editor rather than in a contract with a second company, and takes 0% of every ticket — the card is charged through your own Stripe account, with Stripe's own fee on top. Finding out costs nothing: building and previewing take no card, and the monthly price starts when you publish. There is a 7-day refund. See which plan runs them on a published site, and what each one includes.
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