Philadelphia is a city of BYOBs: a small room, a kitchen, no liquor licence and no bar margin, so every cover has to be earned by the food and by the fact that a customer can find you. The wine arrives with the guest, the table is the whole business, and a stale PDF on a phone is a table that books somewhere else. We build the page that carries the menu, the hours, the cash-only line and the fact that you are BYOB — once, for $49 to $199.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Philadelphia owners. None of them is a design problem.
With no drinks margin there is nothing to fall back on, and the first impression is usually a phone. A page with the menu, the prices and one plain line about corkage is the cheapest table-turner a BYOB has.
A good number of Philadelphia rooms still take cash or nothing. The page says so before anybody sets out, next to the hours and the nearest cash machine, which is a conversation you no longer have to have at the table.
The cheesesteak trail and the neighbourhood regular are two different searches. The page is written for the block you trade on — East Passyunk, the Italian Market, Fishtown, University City — with the address and the hours on the first screen.
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 the pavement choosing between three BYOBs on one screen.
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 →
East Passyunk BYOBs, the Italian Market delis, Fishtown and Kensington kitchens, Chinatown counters, University City lunch rooms and the corner bars that have fed their block for fifty 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.
Yes, in the top block next to the hours, where it is read before anybody sets out. Change it the day you start taking cards — it is one line in the edit key.
Yes: a short line with your corkage and your glass service, written plainly, so the question is answered before the table sits down. We write only what you tell us about drink; anything that touches your licence or the law is your call, not ours.
As fast as you can type it. The edit key changes a dish, a price or a sold-out line in a minute, and the QR on the table keeps working. A printed menu needs a tonight card taped over it; the page just changes.
The page carries the prices you set, the same numbers as the board on the wall. Pennsylvania's 6% plus Philadelphia's 2% is added at the till, which is how every other menu in the city reads — we do not fold tax into a menu price and confuse the receipt.
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.