Free website · Restaurants & cafés

A free website for your restaurant or café.

Most people looking at a restaurant website want the menu, the opening times and how to find you, usually on a phone. The restaurant starter puts those first, and you can publish it free.

Start free with this look See what it includes
  • Free to build and publish
  • No card needed
  • Up to 10 pages
Home page of Saltline Kitchen, an example restaurant or café website made with the builder
Example look: Saltline Kitchen, a sample business. Swap in your own name, words and photos.

What you start with

2 pages, ready for your words.

The "Restaurant & café" starter begins with these pages and sections. Rename, remove or reorder anything, and add pages up to 10.

  • Home page

    1. HeaderYour name, what you do and a main button
    2. MenuPrice list
    3. Opening timesText (with optional photo)
    4. Our workPhoto gallery
    5. Planning a visit or a party?Call to action banner

  • Contact page

    1. HeaderYour name, what you do and a main button
    2. Get in touchContact form

Advice

What makes a good restaurant or café website.

  1. Put the menu on the page, not in a PDF

    A menu written into the page loads fast on a phone, can be read by search engines and is easy to update when a dish changes. Prices next to dishes save a lot of messages.

  2. Keep opening times right, everywhere

    Wrong hours lose customers. Update the site, your Google Business Profile and any delivery or booking apps at the same time, including holidays.

  3. Show the food and the room

    A few good photos of real dishes and the space do more than many average ones. Describe each photo briefly, for example "wood-fired margherita pizza".

  4. Make it easy to call or find you

    Your address, a map and a tappable phone number should be one tap away from the home page.

  5. Give groups and events a clear route

    If you take parties or private bookings, say so, say roughly how many people you can host, and point to a form or a phone number.

More on headers, photos, search titles and Google Business Profile: how to make a free business website that gets found.

From the free guide

Tips from our events & hospitality guide.

Free guide · Events & hospitality

From Inquiry to Booked: A 2026 Playbook for Restaurants and Venues

  • Get found where guests decide: Google and your website

    Complete your Google Business Profile like it is your front door

    For food and drink businesses, Google lets you build a structured menu with sections, dishes, descriptions and prices in the menu editor, or generate one from menu photos. You can also add a reservations link, connect a supported booking provider, list special hours for holidays and events, and post updates about offers and events. Add real photos of your interior, exterior, dishes and event setups. Google notes that menu changes can take 24 to 48 hours to appear, so update before a menu change goes live, not after.

  • Get found where guests decide: Google and your website

    Give packages and menus their own web pages, not just PDFs

    A PDF menu or event packet is hard to read on a phone and harder for search engines to understand. Put your menus, event packages, capacities and room details on regular web pages, with a PDF as an optional download. Each page should have one clear button that goes to your real booking or inquiry tool, whether that is Toast, OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Tripleseat or your own form. If a feature is not available online yet, say how to reach you instead of showing a button that leads nowhere.

  • Get found where guests decide: Google and your website

    Keep hours, menus and links the same everywhere

    Guests lose trust fast when Google says you are open and the door is locked, or when the menu online does not match the one at the table. Make a short list of every place your business appears: Google, your website, your reservation platform, Yelp, Instagram, TikTok and any event directories. Assign one person to update all of them whenever hours, menus or prices change. Seasonal changes and holidays are the most common times listings drift out of date.

  • Use photos and social to fill slow dates

    Build a photo and video library guests can plan from

    Planners want to picture their event, so shoot each room at different setups and capacities: a seated dinner, a standing reception, a ceremony layout. Add your signature dishes, drinks, the bar and the outside of the building so people recognize it when they arrive. Get written permission before posting guests or their events. Use the same library everywhere, and add descriptive alt text on your website so the photos work for people using screen readers.

  • Protect reviews, payments and guest Wi-Fi

    Ask every guest for a review and reply to all of them

    Asking for reviews is fine. Asking only happy guests, or offering a discount or freebie in exchange for a review, is not. Google's policy prohibits incentives for reviews and selectively soliciting positive ones, and the FTC's rule on consumer reviews, in effect since October 21, 2024, bans fake reviews and incentives tied to positive or negative sentiment and requires managers and employees to disclose their connection if they post reviews. Reply to reviews calmly and specifically, and treat negative ones as a chance to show future guests how you handle problems.

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Free vs. plan

What's free, and what the plan adds.

Free website

$0 to build and publish, no card

  • An AI first draft of your pages from a few sentences about your business (it never invents reviews or prices)
  • 20 example looks, and 14 starters for different kinds of business
  • Up to 10 pages, with drag-and-drop sections: services, price lists, galleries, questions, team, opening hours, maps and more
  • Contact forms and your own custom forms; answers come to you
  • Customer reviews visitors leave on your site, shown only after you approve them
  • A blog, and up to 3 more languages
  • Search titles and descriptions for every page, a live SEO score and a site checkup in the builder
  • Your own name.epicte.ch address with HTTPS, and a small "Made with EpicTech" line in the footer

Website plan

$29 a month, cancel any time

Everything in the free website, plus:

  • Your own domain (like yourbusiness.com), with HTTPS set up for you
  • No "Made with EpicTech" line
  • Online booking, and RSVPs for your events
  • Newsletter signups, and emails to your subscribers
  • Members-only pages for customers with an account
  • Download your whole site as a file you can keep
  • An online shop (coming soon)

FAQ

Questions about a free restaurant or café website

Can I put my full menu on the free website?

Yes. The menu is a price list section: add each dish with its price and a short description, and add more sections for drinks, desserts or set menus.

Can customers order or reserve a table online?

The free website does not take orders or payments. If you already use a reservation or delivery service, add its link as a button. Online booking with open time slots is part of the website plan ($29 a month), and an online shop is coming soon.

How do I show my opening times?

The starter has an opening times section on the home page, and you can add the Opening hours section to any page. Write the times the same way as on your Google Business Profile.

How much does it cost?

Nothing to build and publish: your site goes live free on its own name.epicte.ch address with HTTPS and a small "Made with EpicTech" line in the footer. No card needed. The website plan ($29 a month) adds your own domain, online booking, event RSVPs, newsletters, members-only pages and a download of your site, and removes that line. Cancel any time and the site stays live on its free address.

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