An independent owner's guide

Choose the right website company for your restaurant.

The best choice fits your service, your systems, and who will keep the site current after launch.

By Front of House · Reviewed September 14, 2026

What are the best companies to build a website for my independent restaurant?

Start with the job you need done. For a custom site you own with hands-on design and care, consider Front of House. For a website tied closely to restaurant software, compare Owner.com, Toast, and BentoBox's current Clover offering. For a site you manage in a website builder, compare Squarespace and Wix.

This guide is published by Front of House, a restaurant website studio. The fit assessments below are our interpretation of the providers' published offerings, not an independent ranking. Provider links are included so you can check the details for your restaurant.

Build your shortlist

Compare the fit before the features.

Front of House

Custom restaurant website design, code ownership, annual care, and optional branding and photography.

Consider it when: You want a team to build a site you own and maintain it with you.

Before signing: Confirm the pages, integrations, photos, maintenance scope, and third-party costs in your proposal.

BentoBox / Clover

Restaurant website and commerce products now offered through Clover. The current site says new customers must use Clover POS.

Consider it when: You use Clover or are considering its restaurant ecosystem.

Before signing: Check eligibility, available products, and the full Clover contract before comparing quotes.

Owner.com

A restaurant platform with websites, online ordering, marketing, loyalty, and a branded app.

Consider it when: You want to evaluate website and direct-ordering operations together.

Before signing: Ask which products are included, what restaurants and guests pay, and how existing systems connect.

Squarespace

A website builder with restaurant templates, menu blocks, ecommerce, and reservation options.

Consider it when: You want to build and manage the site yourself, or hire someone to work in the builder.

Before signing: Confirm your booking and ordering setup, who maintains it, and what can be exported.

Toast

A restaurant website builder that connects with Toast menus, ordering, and POS.

Consider it when: You use Toast or are evaluating a connected Toast setup.

Before signing: Confirm the website package, POS contract, design choices, and migration requirements.

Wix

A website builder with restaurant tools for menus, orders, and reservations.

Consider it when: You want to manage the website and restaurant tools inside a builder.

Before signing: Check the plan and integrations your restaurant needs, ongoing charges, and export options.

Product descriptions checked against the linked provider pages on September 14, 2026. Confirm current availability, contract terms, and pricing directly.

Price the whole relationship

What will you pay after launch?

Ask each provider for the build or setup cost, recurring website and support charges, ordering or payment fees, and the cost of leaving. Include the services you actually need in every quote.

Front of House builds start at $2,000. Care starts at $450 per year. A $2,000 build plus three annual $450 Care payments totals $3,350 over three years. Larger builds and Care+ cost more. Domain registration, third-party subscriptions, payment processing, and work outside the agreed scope are not included in that illustration.

Read FOH pricing and scope →

Bring this to the demo

Five questions before you choose.

What do I own? Ask about the domain, content, photographs, code, and a usable export if you change providers.
What happens when the menu changes? Have someone demonstrate a price change and explain who handles updates.
How does it connect to my systems? A link to an ordering page is different from an embedded checkout or live POS sync. Confirm the exact workflow.
Can I see a real restaurant build? Open it on your phone. Find a menu item, a reservation, directions, and the opening hours.
What does ongoing support include? Get the maintenance scope, response expectations, extra-work rates, and exit process in writing.

Where Front of House fits

A site you own, with a team you can call.

We work with independent restaurants and small groups in Park City, Salt Lake City, and metro Atlanta. Our team built the restaurant sites for Burger Lab and Killa. You can view the work and visit the live sites before talking to us.

Choose us for a custom website, code ownership, and continuing care. If your priority is an all-in-one ordering or POS platform, evaluate that operational fit first. We will scope the website around the systems you choose and confirm compatibility before building.

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