The biggest restaurant platform in the country has its head office in this city, and its contracts are sold hardest where a rep can walk into your dining room. That is the specific risk of opening a small room in Boston: a two-year agreement, a card rate attached to it, and a website that lives inside the subscription and leaves when the term ends. Meanwhile the visitor on Newbury Street is reading a PDF menu on a phone. We build the one page that answers where you are, what you have and what it costs — once, for $49 to $199.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Boston shop owners. None of them is a design problem.
Toast sells out of this city: the pitch arrives as a person sitting across your table, the paper is a 24-month agreement, and the website is a module inside it. When the term ends, the page goes with it. $199 once, and the file is yours to move to any host, or to none.
Nine months of students, eleven weeks of quiet streets, and a rent that does not care which. A monthly platform costs the same in July as in October. A page that is paid for once sits out the empty weeks without sending you an invoice.
Two or three storms a winter close a street or half a neighbourhood, and the guest checks before pulling on boots. A dated line at the top of the page that you switch on from your phone answers that better than a voicemail nobody listens to.
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 visitor who has never heard of you and gives a page ninety seconds.
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 →
Back Bay cafés, North End trattorias, South End bistros, Chinatown counters, the lunch trade in Kendall Square and the diners that have fed Dorchester for forty years.
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. Every figure is the vendor's own published 2026 price, 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 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | $49–$199 |
Toast: Traditional list on its Starter Kit checkout, single location, first terminal (read 7 November 2026). BentoBox: no published price since the Clover fold-in, so the last list it printed is used. Owner.com: published pricing at $5,000/mo of online orders. Slice: 600 orders a month, a busy pizzeria's volume, because that is what decides the per-order fee. Card processing is on top of every line here; 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 in US dollars. Pay by card on Polar's checkout page; any tax is calculated and shown there before you pay.
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. The register stays and the card rate stays; what we replace is the page. If you are inside a term, keep it and put this beside it — $199 once is smaller than any early-termination conversation, and the two do not conflict.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the distance from our desk to your counter has never been part of what you pay.
Yes. Boston's kitchens and its customers run in more than one language — Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese — and a guest who reads the menu in their own language orders more of it. Same prices, one link, and the second language written by someone who speaks it.
A queue is decided before it forms. Students and office workers search the dish, not the restaurant, and a page with today's menu and a pickup phone number takes the order before anyone walks over. The Full Launch adds the Google Business Profile text that puts the hours and the phone number where the search lands.
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. $49, $199 or $499 is the whole price, charged once. 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 23, 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.