Minneapolis has the shortest patio season and one of the longest delivery seasons in the country: from November the room is a phone call and a bag, and the city's 15% delivery-fee cap — in force since December 2021 — is the only reason that trade is still worth taking. The rest of the arithmetic is harder. In the Federal Reserve's winter survey of Minnesota hospitality businesses this year, more reported falling traffic and profit than growth, over 65% expected lower profit, and operators put the cost of running a room in this city 15 to 20% above other cities. A monthly platform bill is the one line that does not come back. We build the page, the menu and the table QR for $49 to $199, once.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Minneapolis owners. None of them is a design problem.
From November to March the room is decided by whoever is willing to leave the house, and everybody else orders. Minneapolis caps third-party delivery fees at 15% (Code chapter 353, ordinance of 10 December 2021), which is better than most of the country and still $9,000 on $60,000 of delivered orders — while a regular who calls you directly pays nothing. The page and the phone number are the storefront for the half of the year the door is not.
Downtown Minneapolis office vacancy sits around 30% and is forecast to stay there, so the skyway lunch trade that filled a thousand rooms is a fraction of what it was, and the weather that used to push people into the skyways now keeps them at home. The rooms that survive on weekday lunch are the ones that can change their hours by day, publish a lunch line the night before and take a preorder — three edits on one page, none of them a redesign.
In the Minneapolis Fed and Hospitality Minnesota survey of 125 businesses this winter, more than half reported traffic and profit down on the prior year, more than 65% expected profit down again, and 45% were pessimistic about the next six months; operators in Uptown put the cost of doing business here 15 to 20% above other cities, with the state's new paid-leave law adding to it in January. Against that, $199 once is the smallest line on the list, and it does not arrive again in February.
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 table on Washington Avenue in July and a takeout order from a car on Hennepin in January.
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 →
North Loop rooms and Northeast taprooms, Downtown and Loring Park, the Eat Street kitchens and Whittier tables, Uptown and Lowry Hill, Longfellow, Linden Hills, Nokomis and the neighbourhood rooms of Dinkytown.
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. 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. One local line: Minneapolis caps third-party delivery at 15% (Code ch. 353), which lowers the app's share but not the subscription lines above.
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.
Half of it. Chapter 353 of the city code, adopted in December 2021, caps what a platform can charge a restaurant at 15% of the order for delivery and stops fees you have not agreed to — better than nearly every US city. It does not touch the software bill: Toast at Core is $219 a month plus a $1,153 countertop kit, and a website that lives inside that contract leaves when the contract does. It also does little for the regular who would rather call you, which is what the page is for.
It carries the answer the customer needs in the week you least want to talk on the phone: are you open, is the kitchen doing the winter menu, can they order ahead, and are you closed for the holiday week. A dated line at the top that you switch yourself, the takeout menu with prices, and a call button are the whole of it — and unlike a subscription, the page does not send an invoice in the month the room is empty.
Not by default, but the Twin Cities is one of the few US markets where it is a real question: if your regulars read Hmong or Somali first, or Spanish, the page can carry that version on the same link with one price list underneath, at the same price. It is a wording change, not a second product.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the $49 to $199 does not. One thing does not cross the city line: the 15% delivery cap is Minneapolis code, so a St. Paul or Edina page should not claim it.
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 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.