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Trade guide · restaurants · read 7 November 2026

A website for a restaurant: online ordering, table booking and a menu that works on a phone

A restaurant website needs three things a diner can do from a phone: see the menu with prices, order for delivery or pickup, and book a table. Our live demo, Ember & Sage, does all three today, and we build a restaurant's own version free from your work order in 2 to 3 business days; the website then costs $30 a month with everything in it.

For you, that means you can show an owner the finished thing in five minutes and charge your own fee for setting it up and looking after it.

Why it matters to you

What a restaurant owner asks for

  • The menu, with prices, on a phone. Every dish on the demo has its own page with a photo and price.
  • Online ordering. Dishes are products in the site's own store, with a cart and checkout for delivery or pickup. The restaurant connects its own payment account.
  • Table reservations. A live booking calendar inside a form: party size, occasion, notes. Bookings land in the admin and by e-mail.
  • Today's specials. A specials board on the home page the kitchen changes from a phone.
  • Private events and catering. A second form for bigger inquiries.
  • Gift cards, a QR table menu and an app on diners' phones, built in: every iNterGine site installs on a diner's phone like an app; try it on the demo.
  • Answers at 10 PM. The site's AI concierge answers questions about the menu, hours and booking from the site's own facts.
Proof · the live demo

What the owner sees, on a phone

The Ember and Sage home page on a phone: delivery, hours and tables, then a chalkboard specials board with prices
1. Home: today's specials board.
The Ember and Sage menu page on a phone: order for delivery or pickup, with menu sections
2. The menu: order for delivery or pickup.
The Ember and Sage reservations page on a phone: choose a time on the live calendar
3. Reservations: a live calendar.

A five-minute walk-through for the meeting: hand your phone over on the demo's home page; scroll to the specials board; open the menu and put a dish in the cart; open Reservations and show the calendar (do not send it); then show the demo tour. Ember & Sage is a fictitious restaurant and its photos were made with the site's own picture AI: say so when you show it.

Money

What it costs the restaurant, and what you earn

We build the website free from your work order, in 2 to 3 business days. The website then costs $360 a year ($30 a month), with everything in it: online store, booking, forms, blog, members area, phone app and SEO tools. Your set-up fee and your monthly care fee come on top, and you keep all of it; iNterGine takes no cut. How to set them: how much to charge for a small business website.

Fair is fair

Where something else may fit better

  • Restaurants that already take orders through their point-of-sale system (with kitchen tickets and the till joined up) should keep it; their website can link to it.
  • Restaurants that live on delivery apps may keep using them for reach; the website gives them a direct way to order as well.
  • Owners who want to design every detail themselves may prefer Wix's editor and template library.

Need something extra that the site does not do yet? Our in-house app development team can build it.

Questions

Questions restaurant owners ask

Can we use our own menu, prices and photos?

Yes. The work order asks for the menu, prices, hours and photos; the demo's dishes and pictures are only examples.

How do online orders get paid?

Through the site's own checkout, once the restaurant connects a payment gateway such as PayPal. The demo stops before payment.

Can we change the specials every day?

Yes: the specials board is part of the home page and is edited in place from the admin, on a phone or a computer.

How long until the site is live?

We build it in 2 to 3 business days from the work order.

Method and sources

Where these facts come from

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