How Much Does a Restaurant or Takeaway Website Cost in the UK?
A restaurant or takeaway website with proper online ordering costs £700–£5,000 in the UK, and the real question isn’t the price — it’s how fast it pays back by escaping 14–30% aggregator commission. Here’s the breakdown, plus the running costs and the maths on going direct.
Price Tiers Explained
£700 – £1,500
Dine-in restaurants focused on bookings, not delivery.
- Menu showcase
- Table booking form
- Google Business Profile setup
- Mobile-first design
- Reviews & schema
£1,500 – £3,000
Takeaways and restaurants wanting a direct-order channel.
- Commission-free online ordering
- Stripe UK + Apple/Google Pay
- Postcode delivery zones
- Kitchen tickets
- Correct takeaway VAT
£3,000 – £5,000
Busy shops with a strong repeat-order base.
- Everything above
- iOS/Android ordering app
- Loyalty & push offers
- WhatsApp marketing
- Customer database
£5,000+
Groups and chains running several locations.
- Multiple branches
- Per-branch menus & pricing
- Unified customer database
- Central reporting
- EPOS integration
What Affects the Final Price
Ordering vs brochure
A booking-and-menu site is cheap; adding commission-free ordering with payments, delivery zones and kitchen tickets is where most of the value and cost sits.
App vs website only
A mobile website covers most needs; adding iOS/Android apps with push and loyalty costs more but shifts more repeat orders direct.
Number of outlets
Multi-branch menus, pricing and reporting add scope. A single shop is far simpler than a group with shared customers.
Integrations
EPOS, aggregator sync and printer integration each add work but reduce day-to-day friction in the kitchen.
Costs Most Quotes Don't Mention
DIY vs Freelancer vs Agency
Aggregator-only (Just Eat, Deliveroo) costs you 14–30% of every order forever and you never own the customer. SaaS ordering platforms charge monthly per outlet. Freelancers vary. UK agencies build polished ordering sites at £3,000–£8,000. We build the same commission-free ordering at 40–60% less, and crucially you own the site and the customer database — the asset that lets you wean regulars off the aggregators for good.
Codingclave vs Local UK Agencies
An ordering site a UK agency prices at £3,500–£6,000 typically lands at £1,500–£3,000 with us, with Stripe UK checkout, delivery zones, correct VAT and kitchen tickets. The payback maths is the real story: on a shop turning £6,000/week in delivery, moving half of it direct saves roughly £20,000–£40,000 a year in commission — many multiples of the build cost.
Real Project Examples
Bradford curry house
Ordering site + delivery zones + WhatsApp offers
Coventry pizza takeaway
Ordering site + iOS/Android app + loyalty
London 3-branch group
Multi-outlet ordering + central reporting
Cost Questions
For most UK takeaways with decent delivery volume, within 6–12 months. Every order that moves from a 14–30% aggregator to your own site keeps that commission, and the saving compounds as you move more regulars direct.
No. We keep them for discovery and sync orders into one kitchen screen, while you steadily promote your own site with first-order discounts and WhatsApp offers. Most shops shift 40–60% of repeat orders direct within months.
Yes. Eat-in and hot takeaway VAT is applied correctly per item, with records that export into Xero or QuickBooks for Making Tax Digital.
Yes. Orders print to your kitchen printer or show on a tablet order screen, and we can integrate common UK EPOS systems so everything flows together.
Just hosting (£40–£120/month) and standard card fees — no per-order commission. Compared with what you lose to aggregators, it’s a rounding error.