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Websites for restaurants

Your website, built in under ten minutes.

Nearly everyone looks a restaurant up online before they decide where to eat, and a great first impression is what brings them in. You answer a few questions about your place, and we build the website around your menu, your photographs and your opening hours.

  • Your homepage built free
  • Table bookings, however many you take
  • A web address to go online at
  • Built by answering questions

Your homepage is free. The rest of the pages, going online and table bookings come with a paid plan.

Noir, a French bistro in London, on a website built with The Main Course. A photograph of the candlelit dining room fills the page behind the restaurant's name, with buttons to reserve a table and view the menu, and a booking bubble in the bottom corner.
Photographs made for you For your dishes and your room
Change it by typing a sentence “Say we're candlelit and hearty”
Book a table, on every page Every booking is yours
Everything in your browser

You build your website in the same place you read your email, and we look after everything behind it for you.

Quick jobs from your phone

Building the site is easiest on a laptop or tablet. Fixing a price or checking tonight's tables takes a minute on your phone.

Plain English

Everything on screen is in words you already use. We say “the big picture at the top” and “the buttons at the top of every page”.

Your homepage is free

Build it, look at the finished page, and decide after that. The free plan stays free for as long as you want it.

How it works

How your website is built, in three steps

You answer questions about your restaurant in your own words, and we do the building. It's just like explaining your restaurant to a customer.

Tell us about your place

Your name, the kind of food you do, and what makes you worth the trip. Everything else is optional and can wait.

A few answers needed Set your opening hours once

Send your menu, your photos, and your colours

Upload the menu you already print, as a PDF or just photos of it taken on your phone. We read the real dish names and the real prices off it and lay them out as a menu page people can read on a phone. If you have photos of your food and your room, send them and we put each one where it belongs. And if your place has colours of its own, put them in and your site is built in them.

A PDF or photos Your own printed prices Photos created for you Your own colours

We build it, and one press puts it online

Your homepage comes first, on its own, so you look at it and approve it before anything else is built. The look is made for your restaurant out of your own answers, so it fits your place. When you're happy, one button builds the rest of the site to match it: menu, about, contact, and anything else you'd like. Then one more button puts the whole thing online, at a web address we give you, set up in one press with the padlock. The other pages and going online come with a paid plan.

Homepage first The rest built to match One button to go live
3minutes of questions is all we need to start
5minutes to build your website
4pages built as standard, and any others you name
100%of every booking is yours, however many you take

What's in it

Everything your website comes with

Every item on this list comes with your plan, for one monthly price.

In the box Every item, on every paid plan

Pages, menu, photos and logo

  • Every page written for youHome, menu, about, contact, and anything else you name
  • Your real menu typed outFrom the PDF you already print
  • Update your menu from a photo or a PDFCheck the prices we read, then one press updates every page
  • PhotographsYours, or made for your kind of food
  • A logo designed for youThree designs a press, and you keep the one you like

Bookings, orders and being found

  • Table bookingsOn your own site, and every booking is yours
  • The booking sheetTonight's tables, on your phone at the door
  • Takeaway and delivery buttonsStraight to where people already order
  • Found on Google and by AI assistantsA list of suggestions you tick, offered before you publish

Changes, your address and hosting

  • Change anything by typing a sentencePoint at one part of the page first and only that part changes
  • Undo on everythingAnd every earlier version kept
  • A web address to go online atSet up in one press, and your own connected step by step
  • Hosting and the padlockPart of the price, and kept up for you
  • Opening hours in one placeUsed everywhere they are needed

All fourteen are included for one monthly price. Your site goes online at an address we give you, and if you want one of your own we walk you through choosing it, buying it and connecting it.

See how each one works

Table bookings

Take table bookings on your own website

The booking form is part of your own site and it comes with every paid plan. Every booking is yours, and you can take as many a month as your tables allow. Your guests can change or cancel through a link of their own.

Today at a glance
46guests tonight, on 14 bookings
3waiting on you
19:30next through the door
Fullest at 19:3024 of 40 seats
18:00 Verhoeven 2 guests · window if you can Confirmed
19:30 Okonkwo 4 guests · been here 5 times To confirm
20:15 Marchetti 6 guests · one high chair Seated

The booking sheet, as it looks on a phone at the door.

  • Set your service times for each day, including lunch and dinner if you do both. Say how many people you can seat at once, how long a table takes, and the biggest group you'll take online.
  • Accept bookings automatically, or hold every one until you say yes.
  • Block a holiday or a closure and your booking page stops offering those nights.
  • A small Book a table button floats in the corner of every page of your site, so a guest reading your menu can book right there.
  • We count your free seats in one place, at the moment each booking is made, so the table a guest books is theirs.
  • Move a table to Confirmed, Seated, Finished, Missed or Cancelled from one small menu. It takes two taps, so you confirm each change before it lands.
  • It remembers who's been in before, so “been here 5 times” sits next to the name. We work that out from your own bookings.
  • Guests get a link on screen to change or cancel the booking themselves, and your sheet updates as soon as they do, while you stay on the floor.
  • Already on Setmore or SimplyBook.me? Connect either one instead and we'll put their booking page on your site.

Plain language

The words you'll see on screen, and what they mean

This site and the app itself are written to be read by anybody. Every button says what it does, and everything on screen is in words you already use. Here are six of them.

The technical word    What you'll read here

  • hero image
    the big picture at the top
  • navigation
    the buttons at the top of every page
  • DNS record · nameserver
    the box you fill in where you bought your web address
  • SEO
    how easily Google and AI can find you
  • SSL certificate
    the padlock in the address bar
  • responsive
    fits a phone screen properly

Pricing

Four plans, and what each one costs

The free plan builds your homepage with real photographs on it, so you can see what we make before you decide anything. The paid plans are one flat monthly price that covers every page, every photograph and every booking.

Free

Your homepage, so you can see what we build.

$0

Free, and it stays free. No card.

Build my homepage
  • One website, with its homepage built
  • Real photographs of your kind of food
  • The Google and AI check
  • The other pages, going online and table bookings come with a paid plan
Most restaurants

Solo

The whole website, online, for one place.

$9.99/ month

Per restaurant, billed monthly.

Start free, upgrade later
  • Every page of your website, built to match
  • Online, at a web address we give you
  • Table bookings on your own site
  • A logo designed for you
  • All your bookings on one screen

Pro

Everything, for up to five places.

$24.99/ month

For all five, billed monthly.

Start free, upgrade later
  • Everything in Solo
  • Five separate websites
  • Large monthly allowances, shared across all five

Max

Everything, for up to ten places.

$39.99/ month

For all ten, billed monthly.

Start free, upgrade later
  • Everything in Pro
  • Ten separate websites
  • The largest monthly allowances we offer, shared across all ten

See exactly what each plan includes →

Questions

What people ask before they start

The ones you already have. It all happens in your browser, in the same place you read your email, and we look after everything behind it. Getting started is a short form, building and publishing are buttons, and every change after that is made by typing an ordinary sentence into the chat box.

Under ten minutes from start to finish. The questions take about three minutes, and you only have to answer three of them to start. Your homepage is built while you wait, usually in a minute or two. One press then builds the rest of the pages together to match it, on a paid plan.

AI does, working from your own answers about your own restaurant. It writes the pages, draws the photographs and designs the logos. That is what makes a homepage in minutes and a price of $9.99 a month possible. You look at every page and approve it before it goes onto your website.

Yes. Type what you want changed, in a sentence, and it changes. You can point at one part of the page first, and then only that part changes. You can also have the whole page built again, and it comes back with a new look rather than the same one reworded. Every change has an Undo, and every earlier version of every page is kept, so you can go back to any of them. The free plan is there so you can see what we build before you pay.

Yes, and it stays registered in your name where it is. We tell you exactly which box to fill in at your provider, and the big providers are covered by name, including GoDaddy, Namecheap, IONOS, one.com and more. Before anything changes we check what your address is currently doing, and we warn you loudly about anything that could affect your email.

Send yours if you have them, and we put each one where it belongs, so your room goes in the room's place and your dishes go on the menu. Photographs you took yourself are always free to use, on every plan. If you haven't got any, the free plan fills your homepage with ready-made photographs of your kind of food, so you can judge the finished page. Photographs made for your own restaurant come with a paid plan: 40 new ones a month on Solo, 80 a month shared across all five restaurants on Pro, and 140 shared across all ten on Max.

Your bookings are kept for as long as your website exists, and your web address stays registered in your own name, so it goes wherever you go. If a payment is late, your site stays online and keeps taking bookings, and your account goes back to what the free plan includes until it starts again.

See your own homepage, built free in minutes

Answer three questions and look at what comes back. You get a homepage with your menu, real photographs and your opening hours on it. A paid plan builds the rest and puts the whole site online with table bookings, and all of it takes under ten minutes.