A restaurant website that skips the commission
Aggregator apps take 20–30% of every order and hide your customer from you. Your own website shows the menu, the food and the hours — and takes orders and reservations directly, so the margin stays yours.
By Manan Agrawal, Founder · Updated June 10, 2026
A restaurant or café website is how you stop renting your customers from aggregator apps that skim 20–30% off every order. It needs an appetising, up-to-date menu with photos, your hours and location front and centre, and a direct way to order, reserve a table or message you on WhatsApp — keeping the relationship and the margin yours. With SitesPlaced Studio, restaurants & cafés can publish a professional site free in minutes — premium templates, AI that writes your copy, and no coding.
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Visit live siteWhy restaurants & cafés need a website in 2026
Most small restaurants and cafés live entirely inside Swiggy, Zomato or a Google listing. Those bring footfall, but they also take a heavy cut, own your customer data, and put you in a sea of competitors one swipe away. A website is the one channel where a regular can find you directly and order without a middleman.
- ✓Aggregators charge 20–30% commission per order — every direct order from your site is margin you keep.
- ✓Diners check your menu and hours online before they visit; a clear site prevents the ‘are they open?’ uncertainty that sends them elsewhere.
- ✓You own the customer relationship — phone numbers, repeat orders, WhatsApp regulars — instead of renting it from an app.
- ✓Great food photos do the selling; on your own site you control how the menu looks instead of a generic app layout.
- ✓Cloud kitchens and home bakers especially need a real home base, since they have no walk-in storefront to be discovered.
- ✓A direct WhatsApp or order button means a hungry visitor can act in one tap, day or night.
What a great restaurants & café website should include
A restaurant site should make someone hungry and tell them exactly how to order or visit. Include:
- ✓A full, current menu with prices — and photos of your signature dishes.
- ✓Hours, address with a map link, and a phone number that’s tap-to-call on mobile.
- ✓A direct order button (WhatsApp order, call, or your own order link) and a reservation option if you take bookings.
- ✓High-quality photos of the food and the space to set the mood and the expectation.
- ✓Any delivery area, minimum order, or timing details so there are no surprises.
- ✓A line on what makes you you — wood-fired, all-veg, single-origin coffee, midnight delivery — so you’re memorable, not generic.
How to build your restaurants & café website (no coding)
You don’t need a developer or weeks of work. It’s free to build and publish — premium templates included, no ads, no card. Your site goes live in minutes on a username.sitesplaced.com address, and you can add a custom domain or remove the small badge whenever you want.
Pick a template
Start from a restaurants & cafés-ready website template — designed, responsive and ready to make yours. No blank page, no design skills needed.
Let AI fill it in
Answer a few questions or paste your details, and AI writes your headline, about, services and project copy for you.
Make it yours
Swap colours, fonts, photos and sections with a live visual editor. Add your logo, contact details and the things that make you, you.
Publish free
Go live in minutes on yourname.sitesplaced.com. Add a custom domain or remove branding later — you’re never forced to pay to be seen.
Take orders directly and keep the margin the apps would take
The maths is brutal: on a ₹500 order, a 25% aggregator commission is ₹125 gone before you’ve paid for ingredients. Do a few hundred orders a month and that’s rent. Your own website doesn’t replace the apps overnight, but every regular you nudge to order direct — via WhatsApp, a call, or a simple order link — is money that stays in the till instead of flowing to a platform.
Keep the menu effortless to update, because nothing frustrates a customer more than ordering a dish you stopped serving. A site you can edit in seconds means you change the special, mark items sold out, and adjust prices yourself — no developer, no waiting. SitesPlaced lets you do this from your phone between rushes.
Photos do the heavy lifting. A flat, dim phone snap of biryani won’t sell; a bright, well-lit shot will. Spend an afternoon shooting your top sellers in good light, and let those images anchor the menu. For cafés and bakeries especially, the look of the food and the space is the brand — make the site feel like walking in.
Templates to start from
Pick one of these, make it yours, and publish — open a demo to see it live.
ServicesConsultant — Freelancer
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SocialSocial Media Freelancer
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VisualPhotographer — Visual Portfolio
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AgencyLogoisum — Design Agency
Punchy agency-style portfolio with a logo/brand wall and services. For freelance designers going solo-studio.
View live demoWays to get a restaurants & café website, compared
| SitesPlaced | Web agency | DIY builder | Social / marketplace only | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to launch | Free | ₹25k–₹1L+ | ₹500–2k/mo | Free, but rented |
| Time to live | Minutes | 2–6 weeks | Days | Minutes |
| You own it | ✓ Yours | ✓ (you pay) | ✓ | ✗ Platform’s |
| No coding | ✓ | Done for you | ✓ | ✓ |
| Found on Google | ✓ SEO-ready | Depends | ✓ | Limited |
| AI writes your content | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Indicative comparison of the common ways to put a small business online, June 2026.
Build your restaurants & café website free
Pick a restaurants & cafés-ready template, let AI write your content, and publish in minutes. It’s free to build and publish — premium templates included, no ads, no card. Your site goes live in minutes on a username.sitesplaced.com address, and you can add a custom domain or remove the small badge whenever you want.
Build my website free →Frequently asked questions
Do restaurants need a website when they’re already on Swiggy and Zomato?
Yes. Aggregators bring orders but take 20–30% and own your customer data. A website is the one place you can take direct, commission-free orders and reservations, and turn first-time diners into regulars you can reach yourself.
Can I take orders or reservations without an aggregator?
Yes. Add a WhatsApp order button, a tap-to-call number, or a simple order link, plus a reservation option if you take bookings. Customers act in one tap and the order comes straight to you, commission-free.
How do I keep the menu up to date?
On SitesPlaced you edit the menu yourself from your phone in seconds — change a special, mark a dish sold out, or update a price between rushes, with no developer and no waiting.
What does a restaurant website cost?
It can be free. On SitesPlaced you build and publish for free with premium templates included; you only pay later for a custom domain or to remove the small badge — far less than one month of aggregator commission.
Does a cloud kitchen or home bakery need a website too?
Especially. With no walk-in storefront, your website is your storefront — it’s where customers find your menu, see your food, and order directly instead of only meeting you inside a crowded delivery app.