Restaurant websites that take orders
A lot of restaurant websites are a menu PDF and a phone number. Yours can take the order and charge the card, then send it to the kitchen. It can also bring the guest back next week, and you don’t pay a commission on each sale.
We build that system by hand in Chicago. We also run one in production every night.
What a template costs you
Website builders and ordering marketplaces get a restaurant online fast. Then the costs show up:
- Commission on every order. Over your busiest nights, a marketplace’s cut adds up to more than a custom site costs to build.
- A menu out of sync. The register says one price and the website says another. The fix is always “someone updates it manually.”
- Rented. Your domain and customer list sit in someone else’s account, and often the ordering setup does too. When you leave, they stay.
- Invisible to search. Template sites share one structure. Google sees nothing on the page that marks your dishes or your halal status as yours.
Read more: What ordering platforms don’t tell restaurants · Your website builder is your SEO ceiling
What’s included
A hand-built website
Custom design with original food photography and structured data on every dish. There’s no template or page builder underneath. It loads fast on a phone because of how it’s coded.
Commission-free online ordering
Online checkout connected directly to your POS. Pickup and first-party delivery, with prices set on the server so nobody can tamper with the checkout.
Self-serve kiosk and table QR
The same ordering flow runs on an in-store tablet and at the table, which keeps the counter from backing up at peak.
Live digital menu boards
Menu screens read straight from the register. Change a price at the POS and it changes on the wall. There’s no second system to update.
Loyalty that lives in your system
Guests earn and redeem points by phone number in every ordering channel. They don’t need an app or a punch card, and the customer list is yours.
Found in Google, and in AI answers
Local SEO and menu schema, plus Core Web Vitals that pass on real devices. When someone searches “halal food near me”, they should find your own site first.
Proof
Karachi Chaat House, Devon Ave, Chicago
A busy late-night Chicago restaurant runs on a platform we built. We run it in production every day:
- 4 connected surfaces: website, kiosk, menu wall and storefront display
- 3 self-serve order channels (web, kiosk, table QR)
- Square is the single source of truth for the menu and orders, and for payments
- SMS loyalty that redeems in every channel
- Core Web Vitals that pass on real devices
All of it is live. You can place an order or scan a code yourself.
Karachi Chaat House case studyHow we work
- Free health check first. We look at your current site’s speed and security, plus how it shows up in search, and tell you what it’s costing you. Run the free website health check
- A written brief in two business days. It sets the scope and price before any work starts, along with a delivery date. Fixed scope, fixed price.
- Built on your POS. We connect to the POS you already run. You don’t buy new hardware or retrain staff.
- The digital handoff. At launch the domain and code transfer to you, along with every account. You own it.
Common questions
How much does a restaurant website cost?
Every project is a fixed-scope, fixed-price statement of work agreed before we start. A menu-and-hours site and a full ordering, kiosk and loyalty platform are very different builds. The discovery call is free, and you get a written price within two business days.
Do you charge a commission on orders?
There’s no marketplace-style commission. Orders go through your own payment processor at your normal card rates, not through a delivery app that takes a cut of every sale.
Do I have to switch POS systems?
No. Our system is POS-agnostic: we connect to the POS you already run, so there’s no new hardware and no retraining. Our live reference build runs on Square.
Can you take over my current site or ordering setup?
Yes. We start with an audit of what you have, including who holds the domain, the ordering setup and your Google Business Profile, and then propose a plan to move it without losing your reviews or search rankings.
Will I own the website and the customer data?
Yes, completely: the domain, code, accounts and customer list. It’s the same on every engagement. Prefer not to run it yourself? Keep us on a monthly product partnership and we manage the whole stack for you. Everything moves into your name whenever you ask.
Are you only in Chicago?
We’re based in Chicago and build for restaurants anywhere in the US. Chicago restaurants can meet us in person.
Do you work outside the US?
Yes, including restaurants in the Middle East. Tell us your market and your POS, and we’ll tell you plainly what we can integrate.
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