Restaurant Websites, Email And Local SEO From About $23 A Month
A menu people can read on a phone, a mailbox on your own domain, and the local search work that puts you in front of somebody deciding where to eat tonight.
The Short Answer
Most restaurant websites fail at the only moment that matters: somebody standing on the pavement with a phone, deciding where to eat in the next ten minutes. Everything restaurant website hosting has to do follows from that.
A restaurant website has three jobs: show the current menu, show hours and location, and let people book or order. Almost everything else is decoration. LiberationTek packages what a single-location restaurant needs — a drag-and-drop website from $10.99 a month with hosting and SSL included, a mailbox on your own domain at $1.95 a month, and an SEO tool from $9.99 a month that tracks whether you actually appear when somebody searches your town and your cuisine. About $23 a month for all three, on servers we own in the United States, with the build and migration done by a person.
Website Starter Bundle
The site builder with hosting and SSL, one Hub for Teams mailbox on your own domain, and the domain itself free for the first year — in one annual plan instead of three separate decisions.
What A Restaurant Website Has To Do
Show the menu, on a phone
Most of your traffic is somebody standing on a sidewalk deciding where to eat. A menu as a PDF is a menu nobody reads — it loads slowly, pinches badly and is invisible to search engines. A real menu page is text, it loads in under two seconds, and Google can read the dishes on it.
Answer the three questions
Are you open right now, where exactly are you, and is there parking. Hours that are wrong are worse than no website, because somebody drives over and finds the door locked. Hours live in one place on your site and in your Google listing, and they have to match.
Take the booking or the order
A reservation form or an order link that goes to you, not through a third party taking a cut of every ticket. You own the booking, the email address and the follow-up. The delivery apps are a channel, not your front door.
If your current site does those three things, you do not need us to rebuild it — move it onto shared hosting from $7.99 a month and spend the money on local search instead. We will tell you which case you are in.
Restaurant website hosting
Five things a diner does before they ever walk in
Each step is a place a restaurant site quietly loses the table. The fix is rarely a redesign — it is hosting, structure and one reliable place for the basics.
Searches for you
Hours live only in a Facebook post, so Google shows the wrong ones.
Opens the menu
The menu is a PDF that pinch-zooms on a phone, or never loads on mobile data.
Taps to call
The number is baked into a graphic, so tapping it does nothing.
Gets directions
The address sits in the footer only, and never reaches the map listing.
Books or orders
The form warns “not secure,” or the order page is down at 6pm.
- Website — from $10.99 a month. Liberation Site Builder is drag and drop with 200-plus templates and 40-plus widgets. Hosting, free SSL and a free domain are included on annual plans. Your staff can change a price or a photo without calling anyone.
- Email on your own domain — $1.95 per user a month. Liberation Email gets you off a free consumer mailbox, which is the fastest way to stop looking like a hobby. No ad scanning, US servers, migration done by a person.
- SEO tool — from $9.99 a month. The SEO tool Lite plan scans up to 50 pages, tracks your keywords and up to two competitors, and gives you a weekly report with a step-by-step plan. Pro is $29.99 a month and scans up to 1,000 pages.
- Email marketing — free for the first month, then from $10 a month. Liberation Campaign is free at 1,000 emails a month, $10 at 10,000, $20 at 40,000 and $45 at 100,000. The customer list stays yours.
- About $23 a month for the first three together — $10.99 site builder, $1.95 mailbox, $9.99 SEO tool. Around $33 once you add email marketing at 10,000 sends.
- One company, one invoice, one phone number. Every piece runs on hardware we own in the United States, with 24/7 US-based support, and we migrate you across for free.
The Visibility Package — About $23 A Month
You do not need an agency retainer to be findable. You need a site you can edit, an address that is not a free webmail account, and something that tells you each week whether you are moving up or down for the searches that matter in your town.
The Delivery Apps Are Not A Website
1. We Map What You Have
The apps bring volume and they take a percentage of every order, which is a trade some restaurants are happy to make. What they do not give you is the customer. You do not get the email address, you cannot tell a regular about Thursday’s special, and if the app changes its commission you have no other channel to fall back on. A restaurant with 1,200 email addresses it collected itself has an asset. A restaurant with 1,200 app orders has a receipt.
Be clear-eyed about what we do and do not solve: we host the website, run the mail and provide the marketing and SEO tools. We are not a payment processor and we do not solve the merchant-account side of taking money online — you will still need a processor, and we will happily point the site at whichever one you choose.
2. We Move It Without A Sunday Gap
Website, email, giving records and media move on a schedule built around your service times. Nothing cuts over mid-week without a tested rollback, and giving keeps running throughout — we do not take a church offline on a Saturday night.
3. Your Team Gets Trained
Staff and volunteers get walked through the new setup, with written guides for the people who update the site each week. Support afterwards is a phone call to a named contact, not a ticket queue — which matters when something breaks an hour before a service.
- Collect addresses on the site with a form, at the table with a card, or on the booking confirmation — the list is yours and exports whenever you want it.
- Send a weekly special, a seasonal menu change or a quiet-Tuesday offer without paying a per-send agency fee.
- Mail goes out from your own domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured by us, so it lands in inboxes instead of spam folders.
- Pair it with Hub for Teams at $7.49 per user if your managers need shared calendars and file storage for rotas and supplier paperwork.
- No contract lock-in and no charge for the first month, so you can see whether it works before it costs anything.
Email Marketing Is How You Fill A Tuesday
Local search brings the first visit. Email brings the fifth. Liberation Campaign is free for your first month at 1,000 emails, then $10 a month at 10,000 sends — which is more than almost any single-location restaurant needs.
Start Today — Pick What You Need
Order any of these in a few minutes, or read the full details first. Pricing is published up front, so you do not need a quote to see what it costs.
Website Builder
$10.99/monthBuild the site yourself from a template. Hosting, SSL and a free domain on annual billing are included.
Get started →See plan detailsWordPress Hosting
From $29/monthManaged WordPress sized for 50,000 visits a month, with CDN, email and a free domain on annual billing.
Get started →See plan detailsShared Cloud Hosting
From $7.99/monthHost a site you already have. SSL, backups and cPanel included. $7.99 is the three-year rate, $14.99 month to month.
Get started →See plan detailsLiberation Email
From $1.95/user/monthEmail on your own domain instead of a free address, with calendar, contacts and appointments.
Get started →See plan detailsTransfer A Domain
Start it in a few minutesPut the domain in the company name, where a past web guy or an ex-employee cannot hold it hostage.
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What It Costs, Written Down
1. We Map What You Have
Website, mailbox and SEO tool: about $23 a month. That is $10.99 for the site builder Starter plan, $1.95 for one mailbox on your own domain, and $9.99 for the SEO tool Lite plan. Add $10 a month for email marketing at 10,000 sends and you are near $33. If you already have a website you are happy with, drop the builder and shared hosting starts at $7.99 a month instead.
A restaurant group with three locations usually wants one site per location or one site with three location pages, plus a mailbox for each manager. That is still under $40 a month at published prices. If you are running online ordering at volume and the site cannot be slow at 7pm on a Friday, managed WordPress hosting from $29 a month or a managed cloud VPS is the better home for it.
Our prices are published on the product pages rather than quoted on a call. We will also be straight about renewals: shared hosting renews at $12.99 a month after the first term, and the site builder and SEO plans are month to month. Nobody has to ring us to find out what they are paying next year. If you want somebody to do the local search work rather than run the tool yourself, our local SEO services are quoted on the work, and we will tell you if the tool alone is enough.
2. We Move It Without A Sunday Gap
Website, email, giving records and media move on a schedule built around your service times. Nothing cuts over mid-week without a tested rollback, and giving keeps running throughout — we do not take a church offline on a Saturday night.
3. Your Team Gets Trained
Staff and volunteers get walked through the new setup, with written guides for the people who update the site each week. Support afterwards is a phone call to a named contact, not a ticket queue — which matters when something breaks an hour before a service.
Restaurant Website And Hosting FAQs
How much does a restaurant website cost?
With us, from $10.99 a month using Liberation Site Builder, which includes the hosting, a free SSL certificate and a free domain on annual plans. Add a mailbox on your own domain for $1.95 a month and the SEO tool for $9.99 a month and you are at about $23 a month all in. If you would rather somebody built it for you than use the drag-and-drop builder, our development team quotes that work separately.
Should my menu be a PDF?
No. A PDF menu does not work well on a phone, takes longer to load than the page it sits on, and search engines cannot read the dish names inside it the way they read text. Put the menu on a real page as text. Keep the PDF as a download if you want one for printing, but do not make it the only version.
Can I take reservations and online orders on the site?
Yes. The site builder includes forms and booking widgets, and you can embed whichever reservation or ordering system you already use. One honest caveat: we host the site and run the mail, but we are not a payment processor and we do not solve the merchant-account side of taking card payments. You bring the processor, we point the site at it.
Will this get me to the top of Google for my town?
Nobody can promise a ranking, and anyone who does is selling you something. What the SEO tool does is tell you where you currently stand for the searches that matter, what up to two competitors are doing, and what to fix next, with a report updated weekly. Fixing the basics — a readable menu, correct hours, a fast site, consistent name and address — is most of the job for a local restaurant.
I already have a website. Can you just host it?
Yes, and that is often the cheaper answer. Shared hosting starts at $7.99 a month and migration is free and done by a person. If the site is WordPress and traffic is real, managed WordPress hosting from $29 a month handles the updates and caching for you.
Why not just use a free Gmail address for the restaurant?
Because [email protected] tells a supplier, a reviewer and a prospective hire that nobody has got round to it yet — and because you cannot take it with you or control who has access. A mailbox on your own domain is $1.95 a month, it is scanned by nobody, it sits on US servers, and we move your existing mail across for free.
What happens if my site goes down during service?
Support is 24/7 and US-based, so there is somebody to call at 7pm on a Friday. Daily backups are included so a bad plugin or a bad edit is a restore rather than a rebuild. If your online ordering genuinely cannot be offline, say so and we will put you on a managed cloud VPS with an uptime SLA rather than shared hosting.
Tell Us About Your Restaurant
Send us your current site, or tell us you do not have one. We will tell you what we would do, what it costs at published prices, and whether you should spend the money on the website or on local search first. If your current setup is fine, we will say so.
What to look for in restaurant website hosting
Most restaurant sites fail in the same few places: the menu is a PDF nobody can read on a phone, the hours are wrong, and the contact form goes to an inbox no one checks. Here’s what actually matters when you pick a host.
- A menu that loads on a phone in under two seconds. Most of your traffic is someone on a sidewalk deciding where to eat. A PDF menu is the single most common reason they leave.
- Hours, address and phone as real text, not baked into an image. Google reads text. It can’t read the hours on your banner graphic — which is why your listing shows the wrong ones.
- Email on your own domain. [email protected], not a Gmail address. It’s what suppliers, landlords and review sites check you against.
- Booking you own. Third-party platforms take a cut and keep the customer. Your own site should get the booking first.
- Uptime that holds through the dinner rush. Your traffic lands in about three hours a day. Ask what happens at peak, not what the yearly average is.
- Someone who answers the phone. When the site goes down on a Friday night you need a person, not a ticket queue.
- A clear exit. If you leave, you should get your site, your email and your customer list. Ask before you sign, not after.
For general small-business guidance, see the FTC small business guidance.
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