New Orleans runs on turnover. A French Quarter room lives and dies on how many covers a table takes on a Saturday, an oyster bar shucks for a queue that judges it by the minute, and the visitor choosing between four bistros on Royal Street does it on a phone in under ninety seconds. The platforms price that turnover monthly: $219 a month for Toast's software alone, every month, rain or hurricane. The page that answers menu, price and open now — and carries a QR on every table to keep the turns moving — is $49 to $199, once.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with New Orleans owners. None of them is a design problem.
In the Quarter, the guest decides from the pavement and the menu has to be read before they sit. A QR per table means the daily board is read the moment they are seated — order faster, turn faster — and you change the specials yourself in a minute, without reprinting anything.
August and a hurricane evacuation empty the same rooms that Mardi Gras packs. Toast's $219 a month is software alone, on a two-year agreement, before the terminal. $199 once buys the page and the menu outright: no renewal to forget, no term to ride out.
The Bourbon Street tourist, the Freret Street regular and the Bywater brunch line search differently and choose differently. The page is written for the corner you trade on, with the map pin, the hours and the price that gets the person on the pavement through your door.
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 couple on Royal Street choosing between three bistros and a table that just sat down.
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 →
French Quarter bistros and oyster bars, the Marigny and Bywater kitchens, Freret Street and Magazine Street rooms, the Uptown neighbourhood cafés, Mid-City counters and the Metarie family tables.
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.
It removes the wait between sitting down and ordering. The QR on the table opens the menu as it stands — today's specials, today's sold-outs — and you change it from your phone in a minute. Nothing to reprint when the board changes at 4 p.m.
$49 is the Starter: one page, one QR poster, your edit key. The Local Pack at $199 adds the digital menu with a QR per table, the posters and the posts. Both are one-time charges. Three years of Toast's software alone is $7,884, and that is the point of the comparison table above.
No. It is paid for once and there is nothing to bill. Switch the hours or a dated closed line yourself, and switch it back the day the room reopens — the link and the QR codes on the tables never change.
No, and it should not. The page carries the menu and the prices; your till and your card rate stay exactly as they are. We sell nothing that touches the payment, so 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. $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 28, 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.