San Diego county has more than 150 breweries, and the taproom that fills on a Tuesday is the one whose tap list is right on the phone. The county also has a fish taco stand on every third corner and a Little Italy that is full by noon on a Saturday. The customer is standing on the pavement choosing between four places within a mile, so the page has to answer three questions — what is on, what it costs, are you open — before they walk to the next door.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with San Diego owners. None of them is a design problem.
A printed menu is a photograph of one Tuesday. A page is the list as it stands: the new IPA at the top, the barrel-aged one struck out when the keg blows. You change it yourself with the edit key, and the QR taped to the bar keeps pointing at the same address.
Beach traffic and the Gaslamp run on a holiday calendar; the neighbourhoods run on a local one. A monthly platform costs the same in a quiet February as in a sold-out July. One payment does not follow the calendar at all.
A brewery in Vista and a taqueria in Barrio Logan sell to different people and are searched with different words. The page is written for the street you are on rather than for a generic San Diego template, and the map pin is the one that gets somebody to your door.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices, photos and your current list, build each piece, and hand back a live link that works for someone at a bar reading a chalkboard in the dark.
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 →
Taprooms in North Park and Miramar, fish taco stands in Barrio Logan, the Little Italy dining rooms, Convoy's kitchens, Pacific Beach patios and the bakeries of Chula Vista.
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 — the edit key changes the list, a price or a blown-keg line in about a minute, on the same link. The QR codes already on the bar and on the tables keep working because the address never moves.
It becomes a tap list with sizes and prices, plus a line for whichever food truck is outside tonight. The Local Pack's QR per table works on a bar top exactly as it does on a dining table.
A walk-up on a beach path is chosen from the path. The page is what makes somebody walk four blocks: the photo, the price, the hours and the phone number on one screen. The $49 Starter is enough for that; the Local Pack adds the posters and the posts.
Yes. We write English and Spanish in-house, and on a San Diego page the Spanish is written as Spanish rather than run through a translator. One link, both languages, same price.
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.