--- title: "Restaurant Website Design in Chicago | 10 US Tech" description: "Restaurant websites that take orders, not just show menus: online ordering, kiosk, loyalty and Square sync. Hand-built in Chicago. Fixed scope and price." canonical: https://10ustech.com/restaurant-websites --- [RESTAURANT WEBSITES] # Restaurant websites that take orders. Most restaurant websites are a menu PDF with a phone number. Yours should take the order, charge the card, send it to the kitchen, and bring the guest back next week, without paying a commission on every sale. We build that system by hand in Chicago, and we run one in production every night. [THE PROBLEM] ## A template gets you online. It doesn’t get you orders. Page builders and ordering marketplaces get a restaurant online fast. Then the costs show up: - **Commission on every order.** A marketplace’s cut on your busiest nights 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, and the fix is always “someone updates it manually.” - **Rented, not owned.** The domain, the customer list and the ordering setup sit in someone else’s account. When you leave, they stay. - **Invisible to search.** Template sites share one structure, so Google sees nothing that marks your dishes, hours or halal status as yours. Read more: [What ordering platforms don’t tell restaurants](https://10ustech.com/insights/restaurant-ordering-platform-lock-in) · [Your website builder is your SEO ceiling](https://10ustech.com/insights/website-builder-seo-ceiling) [WHAT WE BUILD] ## One system, not six subscriptions. 01 ### A hand-built website Custom design, original food photography, and structured data on every dish. No template and no page builder. It’s fast on a phone because it’s built that way from the start, not because of a plugin. 02 ### Commission-free online ordering Online checkout connected directly to your Square POS. Pickup and first-party delivery, with prices set on the server so the checkout can’t be tampered with. 03 ### Self-serve kiosk and table QR The same ordering flow on an in-store tablet and at the table, so the counter isn’t the bottleneck at peak. 04 ### Live digital menu boards Menu screens fed straight from the register. A price change at the POS is a price change on the wall, with no second system to update. 05 ### Loyalty that lives in your system Points by phone number, earned and redeemed across web, kiosk and table, with no app and no punch cards. The customer list is yours. 06 ### Found in Google, and in AI answers Local SEO, menu schema, and Core Web Vitals that pass on real devices, so “halal food near me” finds you, not the marketplace listing of you. [PROOF] ## We run what we sell. Live in production ### Karachi Chaat House, Devon Ave, Chicago A high-volume, late-night Chicago restaurant runs on a platform we built and run in production every day: - 4 connected surfaces: website, kiosk, menu wall and storefront display - 3 self-serve order channels: web, kiosk and table QR - Square as the single source of truth for menu, orders and payments - SMS loyalty that redeems in every channel - Core Web Vitals that pass on real devices Everything is live. You can order, scan and press every button yourself. [Read the case study →](https://10ustech.com/work/karachi-chaat-house) [HOW WE WORK] ## Fixed scope, fixed price, and you own it. - **Free health check first.** We audit your current site’s speed, security and search, and show you what it’s costing you. [Run it free →](https://10ustech.com/website-health-check) - **A written brief in 48 hours.** Scope, price and date, agreed before any work starts. - **Built on your POS.** We connect to the Square setup you already run. No new hardware and no retraining. - **The digital handoff.** Domain, code and accounts transfer to you at launch. No lock-in. [FAQ] ## 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 48 hours. **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. In the US we build on Square. If you run a different POS, tell us on the discovery call and we’ll say plainly whether we can integrate it. **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. **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. Related: [e-commerce & POS systems](https://10ustech.com/services/ecommerce-pos) · [web application development](https://10ustech.com/services/web-development) · [the Karachi Chaat House case study](https://10ustech.com/work/karachi-chaat-house).