The right online menu option for your restaurant depends on three things: whether you want to keep your current website, whether you need online ordering, and how often your menu changes. Some options are features inside the website builder you already use. Some are platforms that host your whole website, often with ordering built in. Others are menu tools, widgets, or a menu page that drops into the site you have.
This guide covers the three questions to ask first, the four kinds of online menu option and what each company documents, a comparison table, how to choose by situation, and how the pieces fit together.
Three questions to answer before you choose an online menu
Keeping your current website
If your site is on Squarespace, Wix or WordPress and you're happy with it, you probably want something that fills the menu page and leaves the rest of the site alone. If you're starting from scratch, or you'd like one company to run the whole site, a platform that hosts your website may suit you.
Taking orders online
If guests already order through a delivery app or an ordering provider, your menu page doesn't have to take orders too. If you want ordering built into your own website, look at the platforms and tools below that document it.
How often your menu changes
Think about the last time the kitchen ran out of the short rib at 7:30, or a supplier put up the price of eggs. If your menu is a PDF, each of those changes means editing the file, exporting it and uploading it again. If that happens every week, look for an option where an edit shows on the menu as soon as you save it. Our guide to PDF menus and online menus goes into this in more detail.
The four kinds of online menu option
Each kind solves a different problem. Within each group below, the companies are listed in no particular order.
- Menu features inside website builders. Squarespace's Menu block and the Wix Restaurants Menus app live inside those builders, and suit a restaurant whose website is already built there.
- Restaurant website platforms. BentoBox, Owner.com, Toast Websites and Square Online host your whole website, and each documents online ordering as part of it.
- Menu tools and widgets. MustHaveMenus, Menubly, MENU TIGER and Elfsight's Restaurant Menu widget give you a menu you share by link or QR code, a small site of their own, or a widget you paste into a page.
- A menu page that embeds in the site you already have. MenuFramer fills the one page where your menu lives and leaves the rest of your website as it is.
Online menu options compared
This table lists only what each company's own pages document. An empty cell means the pages we read don't document it.
| Option | What it is | Your current website | How you add it | Documented features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace Menu block | A block in the Squarespace editor | Kept, on Squarespace | Add a Menu block to a page | Several menus in one block, sections, descriptions, prices |
| Wix Restaurants Menus | A menus app for Wix sites | Kept, on Wix | Set up from your Wix dashboard | Several images per dish, labels such as Vegan, menus per location |
| BentoBox | Website and ordering platform, now part of Clover | Replaced by a hosted site | Built in BentoBox, for Clover POS customers | Menus for website, takeout, delivery and catering; store locator page |
| Owner.com | Website, ordering and marketing platform | Replaced by a hosted site | Owner builds the site and redirects your domain | Built-in ordering, menu edits any time, POS connection |
| Toast Websites | Toast's restaurant website builder | Replaced by a hosted site | Built in Toast with the Digital Storefront Pro Suite | Menu from Toast menu data, ordering page, gift card and catering pages |
| Square Online | Square's website builder | Replaced by a hosted site, or kept with a linked ordering page | Built from Square Dashboard | Order Online page, menus from Square Dashboard, delivery and pickup |
| MustHaveMenus | Menu design and printing, plus mobile menus | Kept, with a link to the menu | Link, QR code, Facebook post or Link Page | Over 10,000 templates, printing, menus per location |
| Menubly | Online menu and ordering platform | Kept with a link, or its own mini website | Link or QR code | Photos and descriptions, sold-out items, ordering |
| MENU TIGER | QR menu, ordering and website builder | QR codes, or its own website builder | QR ordering, several languages, POS connection, up to 500 branches | |
| Elfsight Restaurant Menu | A menu widget for websites | Kept | Paste the generated code into your site | Image per item, allergen and nutrition details, several menus |
| MenuFramer | A menu page that embeds in your site | Kept | Paste one snippet into your menu page | Photo per dish, search, dietary filters, second language |
Menu features inside website builders
If your website is already built on Squarespace or Wix, both document a way to put a menu on a page without leaving the builder. Your site, domain and design stay as they are.
Squarespace Menu block
Squarespace's help centre describes the Menu block in one line: "Use menu blocks to display your restaurant's menus on your site." You add the block to a page and type the menu in, with dish names, descriptions and prices. It suits a restaurant on Squarespace that wants a text menu styled like the rest of its site.
What Squarespace documents:
- Several menus in one block: Squarespace's example is your brunch, lunch and dinner menus in the same block, organised into sections.
- Items with options: each item has a name, an optional description and a price, and the block handles price variants and add-ons.
- Plans: Menu blocks are available on the Basic, Core, Plus, Advanced, Business, Commerce Basic and Commerce Advanced plans.
Squarespace's guide to building a restaurant site adds that all text in a Menu block is indexable by search engines. The same guide shows how to create a QR code that links diners to your digital menu.
Wix Restaurants Menus app
Wix's help article Wix Restaurants: Setting Up Your Menu covers the Menus app, which you manage from your Wix site's dashboard. You can build a menu by hand, or import a menu file in PNG, JPG, WEBP, CSV or PDF format. It suits a restaurant whose website is on Wix, including one that may add Wix's ordering app later.
What Wix documents:
- Photos: you can add multiple images for each dish.
- Labels: items can carry labels such as Vegan, Gluten-Free or Extra Hot.
- Locations: you can add menus to each location and display them on your site based on where customers are browsing.
- Languages and ordering: the Wix Multilingual app translates your menus, and online ordering uses the separate Wix Restaurants Orders app.
Restaurant website platforms
These companies host your whole restaurant website. You build and edit the site in their system, connect your domain, and the menu is one part of it. Each of them documents online ordering in the same place.
BentoBox
BentoBox's homepage now reads "BentoBox is now Clover", and says its restaurant marketing and commerce solutions are part of the Clover ecosystem. Its FAQ says BentoBox products and services are currently only available to Clover POS customers.
You manage the website itself in BentoBox: its help centre has you go to Website > Pages in the back end to arrange your site's navigation. It suits a restaurant on Clover POS that wants its website, menus and ordering managed together.
What BentoBox documents:
- One menu, several channels: menus can be displayed on your website and used to create online menus for takeout, delivery, QR scan and pay, and online catering.
- Several locations: if your restaurant has more than one location, you can add a store locator page to your website.
- Downloadable menus: you can upload a PDF or JPG menu that visitors download from your site.
Owner.com
Owner.com builds restaurant websites, and its homepage lists online ordering, an online menu, a branded restaurant app, email and SMS marketing, and loyalty and rewards among its products. It suits a restaurant that wants one company to build the website and run ordering and marketing from it.
Owner's restaurant website page says "Owner builds your website," and that it redirects your domain to your new website with Owner. The same page says you always keep ownership of your domain name.
What Owner documents:
- Ordering in the website: the website page lists online ordering as built in.
- Menu edits: on Owner's online menu page, you can "update your items, prices, photos, and descriptions anytime."
- Your POS: the online menu integrates with your existing POS, so orders still flow through your system.
Toast Websites
Toast's help article Get Started With Toast Websites explains that you build your restaurant's website in Toast and connect it to your domain. You can start once the Digital Storefront Pro Suite is added to your location. An Express Setup option draws on your restaurant's details and your Toast menu data to generate the site. It suits a restaurant that runs on Toast and wants its website menu to come from the same menu data as its POS.
What Toast documents:
- Pages ready to go: your Homepage, Menu and Online Ordering pages are selected by default.
- One set of menu data: according to Optimize Toast Websites, menu modules sync with your Toast Web menu data, and you change names, prices and menu groups with Toast's usual menu tools.
- Other Toast products: the site can include a gift card purchase page with a Toast Gift Cards subscription, a loyalty sign-up page, and a catering form with a Toast Catering & Events subscription.
Square Online
Square's help article Set up your website describes its website product, which it calls both Square Online and Square Websites, as a platform to create and manage your online presence. You set it up from Square Dashboard, with a free subdomain or a domain you buy from Square. It suits a restaurant that already uses Square and wants ordering on its own website.
What Square documents in Create an ordering page for your website:
- A restaurant ordering page: the Order Online template is for selling prepared food and drink, "often associated with menu items you'd find in a restaurant."
- Menus from your dashboard: you manage menus under Items & services > Menus in Square Dashboard and choose which ordering pages each menu appears on.
- Delivery and pickup: the Order Online template supports local delivery, and in-store and curbside pickup.
Square also says that if you already have a website with another host, you can build an ordering page in Square and link to it from your current site. That lets you keep your website and add Square ordering alongside it.
Menu tools and widgets
These tools give you a menu that lives outside your website builder. You share it as a link or QR code, use the tool's own small site, or paste a widget's code into one of your pages.
MustHaveMenus
MustHaveMenus says on its homepage that you can manage digital signage, print, websites and publisher listings from one place, with over 10,000 menu templates in its designer. It also prints menus, flyers and business cards, with printing and shipping in the US. It suits a restaurant whose menu begins as a printed design and that wants the same menu online.
Its Mobile Menus take their menu items from your saved designs. You share a Mobile Menu by link, QR code, Facebook post or a MustHaveMenus Link Page, and the same help article says Mobile Menus are on the Pro plan.
What MustHaveMenus documents:
- Photos and updates: its mobile menu page says the menus showcase your food items and photos, and that you can make updates whenever you want.
- Links from anywhere: the same page says mobile menus are made to link from review sites, social media and websites.
- Groups: its menu management page for multi-unit groups lists embedding menus on your website, and unique links, codes and menus for each location.
Menubly
Menubly's homepage describes it as an online menu and ordering platform. You can "share your menu anywhere with a simple link or QR code," and it also offers a mini website, "a webpage where you can feature everything about your restaurant in one single link."
It suits a restaurant that wants a menu link and QR code running quickly, with ordering available. Its pricing page lists a Free plan that includes a built-in online menu, a QR code menu, a mini website and online ordering for pick-up and delivery.
What Menubly documents:
- Photos: on its online menu page, every item can include images and descriptions.
- Sold-out items: its help centre explains how to mark menu items as sold out or hidden.
- Ordering: the homepage says customers can order and pay online through your menu.
MENU TIGER
MENU TIGER calls itself "the all-in-one restaurant operating system" on its homepage. Its features page says you can "build your online menu and restaurant website" with its customisable website builder. It suits a restaurant that wants QR ordering and translated menus, with a website from the same tool.
What MENU TIGER documents:
- QR ordering: its features page says you can receive orders from customers who scan QR codes.
- Languages: the homepage says you can auto-translate your menu into more than 30 languages.
- Locations and POS: the homepage says you can manage menus and prices across 1 to 500 branches from one central admin, and the features page says it integrates with your existing POS.
Elfsight Restaurant Menu widget
Elfsight's Restaurant Menu widget is a menu you build in Elfsight's editor and place on your own website. Its steps are to pick a template, add dishes, prices, images and categories, and "embed the generated code into your website." Elfsight lists the builders it works with, including Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, GoDaddy and Google Sites. It suits a restaurant that wants to add a styled menu to the site it already has by pasting in a widget.
What Elfsight documents:
- Photos: images can be uploaded for each menu item.
- Allergens: Elfsight offers item-specific nutrition and allergen details, displayed as icons or text.
- Several menus: a menu can be one list, divided into sections, or several different menus, with a choice of layouts.
A menu page that embeds in the site you already have
MenuFramer
MenuFramer replaces the contents of your menu page. You keep your website, domain and brand, and paste one snippet into the page where your menu lives. That page becomes the MenuFramer menu. It suits a restaurant that likes its current website and wants its menu page to have dish photos, search and dietary filters.
What guests get:
- a photo for each dish
- search by dish name, ingredient or tag
- dietary and allergy filters
- a second language for dish names and descriptions
- several menus, such as lunch, dinner and happy hour
- prices and sold-out dishes for each location
On the owner's side, you can change a price or mark a dish sold out from your phone, and it shows on the menu when you save. You can invite your team. Each location has a QR code that keeps opening the current menu after you change it (how to print QR codes).
There are two ways to embed it:
- "Just the menu" drops the menu in as one piece, in a frame. On the Pro plan the frame is the only option, and the menu's text lives at menuframer.com.
- "Menu + a page per dish" is the Business plan's script embed. It writes the menu into your own page as real text, gives every dish its own address on your domain, and adds structured data. That makes the menu eligible to be found in search. It only has that effect where your website runs the script inside its own page.
The plans:
- Pro: $75 a month, or $69 a month billed yearly. The frame embed, up to 100 dishes.
- Business: $104 a month, or $96 a month billed yearly. The script embed and unlimited dishes, plus staff training, manuals and recipes.
- Custom: from $149 a month. The MenuFramer team builds your restaurant's whole website, so this is the one MenuFramer plan that replaces your site.
- Each location after the first: $69 a month more.
The trade-offs, plainly: MenuFramer has no online ordering and no free trial. A small MenuFramer badge is on every menu, on every plan. On Pro, the menu is the frame only and holds up to 100 dishes.
How to choose an online menu for your situation
You already have a website you like
If your site is on Squarespace or Wix, start with the builder's own menu feature, since it lives inside the site you already edit. A widget such as Elfsight's is another way to add a menu to the page, by pasting in code. Menu tools such as MustHaveMenus and Menubly give you a menu link you can add to your site's navigation, and MenuFramer fills your existing menu page with one snippet.
Square Online also documents linking to a Square ordering page from a website hosted elsewhere. The platforms that host your whole site, such as BentoBox, Owner.com and Toast Websites, would become your website.
You want one platform for your website and online ordering
Owner.com, Toast Websites, Square Online and BentoBox each host the website and document online ordering in it. If you already use one of these companies' point of sale systems, that may settle it: Toast Websites draws on Toast menu data, Square Online on your Square Dashboard menus, and BentoBox is for Clover POS customers. Owner's online menu integrates with your existing POS.
On Wix, the Menus app plus the Wix Restaurants Orders app keeps menu and ordering inside your Wix site. Menubly and MENU TIGER also document ordering through their own menus and sites.
You mostly print your menus
MustHaveMenus is built around menu design and printing, and its Mobile Menus take their items from your saved designs, so the printed and online versions start from the same menu. If your printed menus or table cards carry a QR code, check that the code keeps working after you change the menu. MenuFramer's QR code for each location keeps opening the current menu, and Squarespace documents creating a QR code that links to your digital menu. Our guide to QR code menus covers printing and placing them.
You need something quick and free
Menubly's pricing page lists a Free plan with an online menu, a QR code menu and a mini website. MENU TIGER's pricing page, Elfsight's pricing page and Square's Square Online plans page each list a Free plan too. Check each page for what its free plan includes before you build on it. MenuFramer has no free plan and no free trial.
You have several locations
Several options document multi-location features in their own way:
- Wix lets you add menus to each location and show them based on where customers are browsing.
- BentoBox offers a store locator page for restaurants with several locations.
- MustHaveMenus offers unique links, codes and menus for each location or outlet.
- MENU TIGER says you can manage menus and prices across 1 to 500 branches.
- MenuFramer has prices and sold-out dishes for each location, and a QR code for each location. Each location after the first is $69 a month.
Where to find each company's prices
Prices change, so this guide doesn't list other companies' prices. You can find them on each company's own pricing page: Squarespace, Wix, Owner.com, Square Online, MustHaveMenus, Menubly, MENU TIGER and Elfsight. MenuFramer's prices are on our pricing page.
How online menu options fit together
You don't have to choose one tool for everything. A website builder can run the site, an ordering or delivery service can take orders, and Google can show your Business Profile. Here is how a menu page sits alongside them.
Keep the ordering or delivery service you already use
MenuFramer doesn't take orders, so whatever you use for online orders today stays exactly as it is. Squarespace's restaurant site guide shows the same pattern: it suggests adding a navigation link to highlight your delivery options on every page, and lists the Allday Ordering extension and ChowNow pages for online orders.
Point your Google Business Profile menu link at your menu page
Google's help article About the menu editor shows where to add or edit your menu URL, the link to where your menu can be found. You can point it at the menu page on your own website, so the menu link on your profile opens the same menu you keep up to date. Our guide to adding your menu to Google walks through it.
A website builder site with a MenuFramer menu page
You can keep your Squarespace, Wix or WordPress site and use MenuFramer for the menu page. Each builder has its own rules for pasted code:
- On Squarespace, "to add JavaScript or an iframe to a code block, your site needs to be on the Core, Plus, or Advanced plan," according to Squarespace's Code blocks article.
- On Wix, the help centre says "the HTML and URL elements in our editor are iFrames."
We haven't tested MenuFramer's script embed through Wix Custom Code or inside a Squarespace Code block, so we make no claim about how it behaves there. If your site is on either, contact us and we'll check your setup with you. Our step-by-step guides for Squarespace, Wix and WordPress cover each builder.
MenuFramer has no integrations with these companies
MenuFramer has no integrations, partnerships or connections with any company in this guide. Using them together simply means each one does its own job: your builder runs the site, your ordering provider takes orders, and MenuFramer fills the menu page.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free way to put my restaurant menu online?
Yes. Menubly, MENU TIGER, Elfsight and Square Online each list a Free plan on their pricing pages, and Menubly's includes an online menu, a QR code menu and a mini website. Check each pricing page for what its free plan includes. MenuFramer has no free plan or free trial.
Do I need online ordering on my menu page?
Only if you want guests to order from your own website. If you already take orders through a delivery app or ordering provider, you can keep doing that and link to it from your site. If you want ordering built in, Owner.com, Toast Websites, Square Online and BentoBox each document it as part of the website, and MenuFramer doesn't take orders.
Which online menu options let me keep my current website?
The Squarespace Menu block and the Wix Restaurants Menus app work inside sites on those builders. Elfsight's widget is pasted into your site, MustHaveMenus and Menubly give you a link to add, and MenuFramer fills your existing menu page with one snippet. Square Online also documents linking an ordering page from a site hosted elsewhere.
Can search engines read my online menu?
Squarespace's restaurant guide says all text in a Menu block is indexable by search engines. MenuFramer's Business plan writes the menu into your page as text with structured data, which makes it eligible to be found in search where your website runs the script inside its own page. Nobody can promise where your menu will rank. Our guide to restaurant menu SEO explains how this works.
Does MenuFramer connect to Toast, Square or my delivery app?
No. MenuFramer has no integrations with Toast, Square, delivery apps or any other company in this guide. Your ordering and payments stay with the service you use now, and MenuFramer fills the menu page on your website.
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