Berlin is a city of small rooms with strong opinions: a café in Neukölln that roasts its own beans, a vegan kitchen in Friedrichshain that changes the menu weekly, a craft-beer bar in Kreuzberg that prints nothing because it would be out of date by Thursday. What they have in common is that the software sold to them is American, monthly, and priced in dollars — and that a German commercial site carries obligations the American template never mentions, an Impressum and a privacy notice. We build the page, the menu and the table QR for €45 to €185, once, with the block for those details built in.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Berlin owners. None of them is a design problem.
A commercial site aimed at German customers needs a provider statement — name, address, contact, and for a registered business the register number and VAT ID (§5 DDG, the rule that used to sit in §5 TMG) — plus a privacy notice that says what the page collects. Missing or incomplete ones are the standard route to an Abmahnung, which costs more than the whole build. The page carries a footer block for exactly those particulars and space for the notice; what belongs in them stays with you and your adviser, and we do not give legal advice.
Lieferando publishes no rate card; restaurants report around 30% on orders it delivers, and Uber Eats prints 30% on its own couriers, 33% on Uber One members' orders and 14% on pickup. A room that fills at seven and empties by eleven pays that share on every order a regular would have phoned in. The page is where that regular reads the menu as it stands tonight — no app, no commission, no tablet.
A café on Oranienstraße, a room in Prenzlauer Berg and a kitchen on Kantstraße sell to three different crowds, and none of them is the customer the American restaurant template was written for. The page is written for the street you trade on — German where a German search lands on it, English for the half of the city that reads that, and the hours, the prices and the pin on the first screen either way.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back a live link that works for a Sunday brunch queue on Weserstraße and a table of four on Torstraße at nine.
One form, five minutes. Delivery target is one business day from the moment we have your details, hours, menu and photos.
The fastest way to judge this is to open one. This is a sample built from a public listing, so the phone, address and hours are the shop's own.
Not a customer site. See the standard layout we deliver →
Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg rooms, Kreuzberg and Neukölln kitchens, Friedrichshain bars and Wedding bakeries, Charlottenburg and Schöneberg tables, the Moabit and Tempelhof neighbourhoods and the Spree-side terraces of Tiergarten.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the neighbourhood changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and tax. These vendors publish in US dollars, so each line carries the vendor's own US list with the € conversion underneath at €1 = US$1.08, read 11 November 2026 — a comparison, not a euro quote. Run your own volume through the calculator if the per-order fees matter more than the subscription.
| Platform | What it costs | 3 years |
|---|---|---|
| Toast POS + Web | $219/mo at Core, plus a $1,153 countertop kit, on a 2-year agreement | $9,037≈ €8,367 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ €1,633 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ €5,892 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ €16,633 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ €8,095 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ €5,966 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ €6,861 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ €5,966–€16,633 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ €44,225–€61,298 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ €3,967 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ €6,300 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | €45–€185 |
Toast: Core at $219/mo plus a $1,153 countertop kit on a two-year term. BentoBox: no published price since the Clover fold-in, so the last list is used. Owner.com: $5,000/mo of online orders. Slice: 600 orders a month, a busy pizzeria's volume. Popmenu's $1.00 an order and Owner.com's 5% are the lines that scale with the till. The € figure under each price is that US list converted at €1 = US$1.08 for comparison — a vendor selling here may publish its own euro list, often with a different module split — and VAT plus card processing sit on top of whichever contract you sign. We take no orders and process nothing.
Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews. Pick the link if that is all you need; pick the Local Pack if customers keep asking for the menu.
One page, one business day.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Prices are charged in US dollars by Polar Software, Inc. at checkout. €45, €185 and €460 are the prices we set for the euro market — within a euro or two of a straight conversion of US$49, US$199 and US$499 at about €1 = US$1.08 — and your bank may add its own conversion fee. Where VAT applies to your purchase, the German standard rate is 19% and the amount is calculated and shown on the checkout page before you pay; whether your business accounts for it under the reverse charge is a question for your accountant, not us.
Payment is taken by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page — we never see your card. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. One round of edits is included; the files are yours to keep and reprint.
Each of the eleven has its own page, with its own price ladder, contract terms and three-year arithmetic.
A commercial site needs a provider statement under §5 DDG — the shop's name, address, contact details and, for a registered business, the commercial register entry and VAT ID — and a privacy notice covering what the page collects. The footer block on the page is laid out for exactly those fields, so they go in one place and stay there. Whether your particular wording is enough is a question for a German lawyer; we do not give legal advice and will not pretend to.
It is the alternative for the customers who already know you. Lieferando publishes no rate card — the ~30% is what restaurants report — while Uber Eats prints 30% on its couriers, 33% on Uber One members' orders and 14% on pickup. On €60,000 of delivered orders a year, 30% is €18,000. The page does not take orders or payment; it is the menu and the phone number, which is enough for the regular who walks past you twice a week.
Germany ranks fourth in the EF English Proficiency Index (615 in the 2025 edition) and Berlin's trade is international, but a Wedding regular searches 'Speisekarte', not 'menu'. The page can carry German copy, or German headings with English detail underneath, at the same price — it is wording, not a second product.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the € figure does not — the page is written for the city you trade in.
The Local Pack: a mobile website on its own link, a digital menu with one QR code per table, three print-ready posters, five Instagram posts with captions, and one round of edits. The files are yours and there is no subscription.
No. €45, €185 or €460 — US$49, US$199 or US$499 — is the whole price, charged once. The euro figures are the prices we set for this market, within a euro or two of a straight conversion at €1 = US$1.08, and the checkout page shows the exact US$ amount before you pay. Domain registration, printing and advertising are yours to pay if you want them, and we do not take a cut of anything you sell.
Yes. You get an edit key for the page, so a price, a closing time or a sold-out dish is a change you make in a minute. The QR codes already on the tables keep working because the address never changes.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there and never on this site; they issue the receipt and handle any refund.
The packages, what is delivered, and the three-year maths — on one A4 page you can hand over or pin up.
Local pages for the shops that make each city worth walking through. All 42, grouped by country, with a PDF for each →
Send your hours, your menu and a few photos. We build the page, the QR menu, the posters and the posts, and hand it back the next business day. If you already pay a platform for a page like this, this is the line you can take off the bill.