Restaurant Website Design Prices
Fixed prices for restaurant, café and bar websites. A custom-designed restaurant website starts from £2,400, a site with menus you edit yourself plus booking and ordering from £3,900, and hosting from £20 a month. Here is what each buys a restaurant, what moves the quote and how it compares with platform-bundled sites.
What a Restaurant Website Costs With DigitalPod
Our prices are published and the same whatever you serve, because a bistro's website takes the same design, build and care as any other business's. What changes is what the site must do, and for a restaurant the dividing line is how often the menu changes and whether you want to take orders. A site with menu pages, an embedded booking widget, your story and directions fits within the starting price. Menus you edit yourself, online ordering and voucher sales need the dashboard package.
The starting price buys a custom-designed site of up to around ten pages, designed from scratch around your photography and hand-coded so that menus load fast on mobile data. The website with admin dashboard adds a secure area and database where dishes, prices, allergen flags, specials, hours and events are managed by your team, with ordering and payments connected. Logo design is quoted at the same time as the website, and the figure is fixed before we start.
Restaurants Website Design Packages
Startup Website
- For restaurants: menu pages, an embedded booking widget, hours, directions, private dining and voucher pages
- Custom website design created around your brand and business goals, not a template
- Hand-built with modern technology (Next.js / React) for speed and security
- Mobile-friendly, fast-loading and search engine friendly from day one
- Contact forms, maps, galleries and the features a new business needs
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Website + Admin Dashboard
- For restaurants: menus, prices, specials and hours you change yourself, with online ordering built in
- Everything included in the Startup Website package
- Secure admin dashboard so you can update your own content
- Postgres database for your content, listings, bookings or members
- Ideal for blogs, directories, booking systems, SaaS marketing sites and member areas
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Optional Extras
Both can be added to either website package, or left out entirely. Hosting is only needed if you would like us to run the site for you, and logo design only if you do not already have a brand.
Managed Cloud Hosting
- Keeps the site fast at seven on a Friday, with quick changes to hours and menus when you send them
- Your website hosted in the cloud and completely managed by us
- Keeps your site fast and secure without you lifting a finger
- Quick updates to your website whenever you need them
- Optional: host it yourself and we hand over the complete code
Logo & Brand Design
- A mark that works on a fascia at night, a menu and an Instagram tile, designed alongside the website
- Logo design with the files you need for web, print and social media
- Colour palette and typography that carry through to the website
- Designed by the same team that designs your site, so everything matches
- Ask for a combined website and branding quotation
Three Typical Restaurants Website Projects
Neighbourhood café or bistro
Home, menu pages with allergen flags, an embedded booking widget, the story, find us and a vouchers page, built around a day of food photography and a menu that changes a few times a year.
Restaurant replacing a platform freebie
A rebuild of the template that came with the booking or till system: menus the manager edits daily, online ordering for collection, private dining pages, a photography-led design and redirects from the old pages.
Small group with two or three venues
One site with a section for each venue, each with its own menus, hours and booking widget, shared vouchers and events pages, and a single dashboard where one manager looks after everything.
What the Starting Price Includes for Restaurants
- A custom design built around your photography and brand, approved before any code is written.
- Up to around ten pages, typically home, menus, book, order, private dining, story, vouchers and find us.
- Menus built as real pages with prices, dietary tags and allergen flags, readable by Google and by screen readers.
- Your reservation widget embedded, your hours marked up so Google shows them correctly, and reviews pulled through.
- Mobile-first, fast-loading pages with the search engine foundations for "restaurants [town]" searches and alignment with your Google Business Profile.
- Launch to managed cloud hosting from £20 a month, or take the finished code and host it anywhere.
What Changes the Price of a Restaurant Website
- An admin dashboard for menus, specials and hours, which moves the project into the from £3,900 package.
- Online ordering with payments, delivery zones and kitchen notifications, quoted on scope.
- Gift voucher sales, pre-ordering for set menus and event ticketing, quoted individually.
- The number of venues or brands, and how far their menus and bookings are shared.
- Logo and brand design if you are opening or rebranding, quoted alongside the website.
- Copywriting and food photography, if you would like them arranged rather than supplied.
Every website is quoted individually, so the final figure depends on what your restaurant actually needs. Our website design brief template helps you list those needs so that we can give you an accurate fixed price.
How Our Prices Compare for Restaurants
Restaurants are offered websites by the booking platforms, the ordering platforms and the till vendors, free or close to it, because the platform earns from the commission and the subscription rather than the site. The result is a template that promotes the platform, with your menu squeezed into their format and nothing you own. Website builders are the other common route and work for a simple café, but the menu usually ends up as a PDF or an awkward block, and the design and search work are left to you.
Design agencies commonly quote £6,000 to £20,000 or more for a small business website, and experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000. Our restaurant websites start from £2,400, or from £3,900 with editable menus and ordering, designed and built in-house at a fixed price, and the finished site, its design and its code are yours outright. Our guide to how much a website costs in the UK covers the wider market.
For a wider view of the market, read our guide to how much a website costs in the UK and our comparison of custom websites and website builders.
How a Project Runs
- Your requirements. On a call, you tell us about your business, your customers and what the website needs to do, and we give you a fixed quotation.
- Logic and visuals. We plan the site structure and create visual mockups for your approval before anything is built.
- Development. We build the website, keep you updated and give you a realistic completion date.
- Testing and launch. You review the finished site on a test server, we refine it, and then we launch it or hand over the files.
Most websites take three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided the content is ready. Our guide to the website design process explains each stage, and the timescales guide shows what a typical schedule looks like.
What Clients Say About Working With Us
"I would recommend Digital pod as I am very pleased with the website they designed for me."
"Matthew is very professional, helpful and talented in creating an excellent website. Thank you."
"We are so pleased we used Digital pod to design our website and our branding, logo, stationery etc. From the very beginning Matthew was amazing. He listened to our ideas and perfectly translated them into designing the look and feel of our site, and our branding. He worked with us patiently despite our indecisiveness and happily changed and adapted elements at our request as we went along. He took the time to answer all our questions promptly, and made the whole project run smoothly. We are beyond delighted with the outcome and can't thank him enough."
Restaurants Website Price Questions
Is £2,400 enough for a restaurant website?
For most independent restaurants, cafés and bars, yes. The starting price covers a custom design around your photography, menu pages with allergen flags, an embedded booking widget, your story, private dining, vouchers and directions. It rises if you want to edit menus yourself, take orders online or run several venues, and we agree the figure before any work begins.
What does online ordering cost?
It is quoted on scope, on top of the website with admin dashboard package from £3,900, because ordering involves payments, delivery zones, collection times and notifications to the kitchen. The payment provider's own fees are a separate contract between you and them. Compared with handing a share of every order to a delivery app, most restaurants find the arithmetic straightforward.
Are there monthly fees?
From us, only hosting from £20 a month if you choose it, covering a managed cloud server, security updates and quick changes to hours and menus. There is no licence fee for the website and no commission on bookings or orders taken through it. Your reservation system and ordering or payment providers have their own subscriptions, as they do now.
Why pay for a website when the booking platform gives us one free?
Because the free site is theirs. It carries their branding and their links, follows their template, and disappears if you change platform. A site you own can be designed around your food, take orders as well as bookings, hold the menus and allergen data properly, and be found for the searches that matter to you. The platform widget can still sit inside it, so you lose nothing.
Can we pay around our opening date?
Payment is a 50% deposit when work starts and the remaining 50% when the site is complete and ready to launch, so the balance falls due around the time the first bookings arrive. There are no further payments afterwards apart from hosting if you want it, and the finished website, its design and its code belong to you.
Our main prices page and FAQ cover payment terms, hosting and ownership in more detail. For what the website itself should include, see restaurants website design, or startup restaurants website design if you are launching a new business.
Guides to Website Costs and Planning
Other Sectors We Work With
Prices are the same whatever you do; the pages below explain what they buy in other sectors.
Get an Exact Quote for Your Restaurant Website
Send us your requirements or book a call with our senior software engineer. We will tell you which package fits, what the extras would cost and how long the project will take, and we reply personally with a fixed price.