Portland is the one American dining city that runs on carts: about 500 of them across roughly 90 pods, plus 250 that stand alone, a roaster on every other block and a taproom on the corner. It is also the only city on this list where the delivery fee is capped by law — 15% for delivery, 4% for takeout, since March 2023 — which means the app is not what is eating the cart. What a cart has is an Instagram handle, a laminated menu and a QR code somebody printed in 2021 that now opens a dead link. We build the one page, the menu and the table QR for $49 to $199, once, and the price on it is the price the customer pays, because Oregon has no sales tax to add.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Portland cart owners and café owners. None of them is a design problem.
Portland City Code 7.27.020 has capped third-party delivery fees at 15% of the purchase price since 1 March 2023, with takeout at 4% and the processor's own card fee passed through on top. That is the best deal in the country and it is still $9,000 on $60,000 of delivered orders — and it does nothing for the regular two blocks away who would rather walk up and order. The page is how that regular finds the cart, reads the menu and calls, and no percentage leaves the till.
The city counts about 500 carts in roughly 90 pods and another 250 standing alone, and the buyer at the pod picks by walking past. But the person deciding from a phone, three blocks away, sees an Instagram grid and a menu photographed at an angle in 2023. One link with the cart's real hours, which pod it is in and where in the pod it sits, the menu with prices and a call button is the whole difference between a walk-up and nothing.
The 2023 wastewater rules are closing pods: two downtown lots with 19 carts between them were announced for closure this year, and every cart on them has to find a new pitch and tell everyone. A page on its own address moves with the cart — you change the pin, the pod name and the hours from your phone, and the QR code taped to the counter still opens the same menu. That is the one piece of the business a cart can carry from lot to lot.
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 rider on the Springwater Corridor at noon and a table of four on a wet Tuesday in November.
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 →
Cart pods and coffee bars from Downtown and the Central Eastside to Alberta, Division and Hawthorne; the Mississippi and Pearl District rooms; NW 23rd, Sellwood, Montavilla and the St. Johns tables at the end of the line.
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: Portland caps third-party delivery at 15% and takeout at 4% (City Code 7.27.020), so an app's bill here is smaller than in most US cities — the subscription lines above are not.
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 solves the app's share and nothing else. The cap has been in force since 1 March 2023 at 15% of the purchase price for delivery and 4% for takeout, with card processing passed through — on $60,000 of delivered orders that is still $9,000 a year, and it is still a share of an order the customer could have placed by phone. The cap also says nothing about the monthly software bill: Toast at Core is $219 a month with a $1,153 countertop kit, and a website inside that contract leaves when the contract does.
A page on its own address with the cart's name, hours, the pod it sits in and where in the pod, the menu with prices, a call button and directions — plus a QR poster PDF that opens it. The Local Pack at $199 adds the digital menu with one QR code per table or counter, three printed posters and five Instagram posts. When the menu changes on Thursday you change the price yourself on the same link; nothing is reprinted and the QR already on the counter keeps working.
The price, once. There is no tax to add at the till and nothing to disclose at the bottom of the board, so the menu we build prints your number as your number — which is also why a Portland page can say the price is the price. Our own $49, $199 and $499 are charged by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, at their checkout, where any tax that applies to your purchase is calculated and shown before you pay.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the figure does not. One thing does change across the river: Vancouver is in Washington, which has sales tax and no delivery-fee cap, so the page there prints a tax line the Portland one does not.
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.