Reservation platforms charge monthly rent plus a fee on covers, and your website still sits there with a PDF menu nobody can read. We build hospitality websites with menus machines can quote and booking systems you own, commission-free.
The drinks and the food are rarely the problem. The systems around them usually are.
Reservation platforms charge $149 to $899 a month, and some add a fee on every cover they send. That's marketplace pricing, and it makes sense if the marketplace fills your seats. For a neighborhood spot whose guests already know the way, it's a billboard in a town where everyone knows your name. We compared the real alternatives here.
When someone asks Google or an AI assistant where to get oysters or an espresso martini nearby, the recommendation comes from what the machines can read. A PDF menu is a closed box. AI recommendations are becoming hospitality's front door, and most local spots are invisible to them.
If reserving a table means calling during service or messaging and hoping, you lose the guests who decide at 11pm on a Tuesday. The booking has to happen the moment the impulse does, on your website, in two taps.
One build, three fixes: the website, the bookings, and the visibility.
Fast, modern, and built to be read: real HTML menus instead of PDFs, an accurate hours table, private events, and your story. Here's what a bar or restaurant site actually needs, and what to stop doing.
Menu, hours, and booking, each one tap from the homepage.
A two-step booking flow on your own site: date, time, party size, done. Guests get email confirmations, the house keeps control of the floor, and your policies are stated in plain text.
Every booking commission-free. No per-cover fees, ever.
Written so Google and AI assistants can actually quote it: dishes, cocktails, hours, and location, all in plain text machines can read when someone asks where to eat or drink near them.
From invisible to quotable, which is where discovery is heading.
A craft cocktail bar in the West End of Long Beach was quoted in excess of $5,000 a year for OpenTable, on top of what they were already paying for hosting and outside maintenance. We built them a reservation system they own at less than half of all that, on a website that finally matches the room. Two weeks, kickoff to launch.
Two parts: a one-time build you own outright, and a monthly service that keeps the booking system running.
Your website, rebuilt around the booking flow. Yours outright.
one-time, plus tax (our Custom website tier)
Everything that keeps bookings flowing, month to month.
monthly, quoted after a discovery call
Popular add-ons, quoted per venue: HTML menu buildout (priced by how many menus you run), and online ordering or takeout.
Your website belongs to you. The code, the content, the domain. If we ever part ways, you take it with you, no strings.
The reservation system, booking dashboard, text confirmations, and monitoring run on our systems as part of your monthly service. If you cancel, those switch off, and we hand you a complete export of your guest list and booking history within 7 days. Your customer data is yours. We just run the machine it lives in.
It depends where your guests come from. Those platforms charge for their marketplace: diners who discover you through the app. If most of your guests already find you on Google, Instagram, or by walking past, you're paying national-marketplace prices for a booking form. A neighborhood spot usually just needs its own front door: a fast site and a booking flow it owns.
Your website belongs to you: the code, the content, the domain. If we ever part ways, you take it with you. The reservation system, booking dashboard, confirmations, and monitoring run on our systems as part of your monthly service. If you cancel, those switch off and we hand you a complete export of your guest list and booking history within 7 days. Your customer data is yours; we just run the machine it lives in.
The build starts at $4,999 (our Custom website tier) and the running system is a monthly service scoped per venue and quoted after a discovery call. Menu buildout and online ordering or takeout are add-ons, priced by scope, since one venue might run a single menu and another seven. For comparison, a reservation platform alone runs $149 to $499 a month at OpenTable plus per-cover fees, or a flat $249 and up at Resy, and neither builds your website. Every booking through your own system is commission-free.
Yes. The new site is built and tested in the background while your current one keeps running. The switch happens when everything works, usually about two weeks after kickoff.
More than almost anything else on your site. On a phone a PDF forces pinching and zooming, Google can't index your dishes, and the AI assistants people increasingly ask for recommendations can't read it at all. A real HTML menu means a search for a specific cocktail or dish can land directly on your page.