Birmingham invented the balti, runs some of the oldest Desi pubs in the country, and has spent the last decade turning Digbeth into a food hall with a railway running through it. None of that fits a template written for a Shoreditch small-plates room, which is why so many of the city's kitchens have a Facebook page instead of a site. The bigger platforms want a hundred pounds a month and a two-year term for modules a fifty-cover room will never open twice. We build the four things a customer checks on a Friday — what is on, what it costs, are you open, where are you — for £39 to £159, once.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Birmingham operators. None of them is a design problem.
A Birmingham balti menu is a living document: lamb, oil, rice and gas all move, and the printed menu at the door is a year out of date by the second price rise. Your edit key changes a dish or a price in a minute, and every QR in the room and the link in your Instagram bio opens the new version instantly — no reprint run, no laminating.
Street-food yards and shared kitchens run on traders who change with the season, and the customer checks who is on before crossing the city. A page with today's lineup and the yard's hours, changed by you from your phone, converts a search into a walk-in; a page from the opening week does the opposite.
A UK hospitality EPOS quote arrives as a stack — till, kitchen screen, booking widget, loyalty, website — and the website is the part nobody logs into after launch week. £159 once, and there is no renewal meeting to sit through and no module to talk you into.
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 family of nine on Coventry Road at eight and a lone drinker looking for the football at three.
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 →
Ladypool Road and the Balti Triangle, Coventry Road's Desi pubs, Digbeth's street-food yards, the Jewellery Quarter's bars, Stirchley's cafés and Kings Heath and Moseley's dining rooms, out to Selly Oak and Sutton Coldfield.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the suburb changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and VAT. Vendors publish in US dollars, so each line carries the US list with the £ conversion underneath at £1 = US$1.26, read 11 November 2026. 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≈ £7,139 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ £1,394 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ £5,028 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ £14,192 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ £6,907 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ £5,091 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ £5,854 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ £5,091–£14,192 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ £37,734–£52,301 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ £3,384 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ £5,375 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | £39–£159 |
The bold figure is the vendor's own published US list — Toast Core at $219/mo plus a $1,153 kit on a two-year term, Lightspeed Essential at $189/mo with $30 a kitchen screen, BentoBox's last printed list since the Clover fold-in. The £ figure under it is that number converted at £1 = US$1.26 for comparison, not a UK quote: UK vendors publish their own £ list, often with a different module split, and VAT is on top of whichever contract you sign. Card processing is on top of every line, and we take no orders.
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.
£39, £159 and £399 are the prices before VAT. VAT is 20% for a UK billing address and is added at checkout, so the Local Pack comes to £190.80 with VAT and the Starter to £46.80. The card is charged in US dollars by Polar Software, Inc.; the £ figures are the same prices converted at about £1 = US$1.26 and move with the rate.
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.
No. Those are before VAT; Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, adds 20% for a UK billing address at checkout, so the Local Pack comes to £190.80 including VAT and the Starter to £46.80. The receipt is a VAT receipt in Polar's name, which is the copy your accountant wants.
For the way you actually trade. The page carries the drinks separately from the kitchen — cask lines, what is on keg, the spirits list, and the kitchen's hours when they differ from the bar's. It also has a line for the football and the function room, which is what the phone calls are about.
Yes. Birmingham's kitchens serve customers who read the menu in Urdu, Punjabi, Polish or Romanian first, and a second language, written by somebody who speaks it, is one of the cheapest things you can do for the price of a takeaway order. Same prices, one link, and the QRs on the tables keep working.
It carries the wording and the phone number, and a dated line at the top for a private function or a closed kitchen. We do not take bookings or payments — we sell the page, the menu, the posters and the posts, and nothing you already run has to change.
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. £39, £159 or £399 — US$49, US$199 or US$499 — is the whole price, charged once; 20% VAT for a UK billing address is added at checkout. 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.