How it works

Menu in.
Orders out.

Photograph the menu, connect Stripe, and take your first order in minutes, not weeks. Nothing to install, nothing to learn, and 0% TableSpark commission — ever.

Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

10 minMenu to live site
0Tutorials to watch
0Plugins to bolt on
50Finished templates
1Login for everything
0%TableSpark commission
The first session

Set a timer.

  1. 01

    Upload your menu.

    A photo, a PDF or a spreadsheet — TableSpark reads every dish, price and description.

    app.tablespark.uk · Menu scanStep 1 · Menu scan
    The Menu scan drawer open over the Menu page: the detected languages and the first drafted dishes with prices, ready to review
  2. 02

    Choose a template.

    Fifty restaurant designs, already filled with your menu. Pick the one that feels like your room.

    maisonrouge.tablespark.ukStep 2 · Your site
    A finished restaurant home page built on TableSpark: a rooftop dining photograph behind the restaurant name, with Reserve a table and View the menu buttons
  3. 03

    Check everything.

    Hours, photos, allergens, wording — click anything to change it. Everything undoes.

    app.tablespark.uk · MenuStep 3 · Menu
    The Menu page: a Mains section with photographed dish rows, descriptions, prices and Edit actions
  4. 04

    Connect Stripe.

    One button links your own Stripe account. Cards and deposits go straight to you — 0% TableSpark commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

    app.tablespark.uk · Settings · PaymentsStep 4 · Payments
    Settings, Payments: the Powered by Stripe badge, the 0% platform commission line and the Connect Stripe button
  5. 05

    Taking orders.

    Publish, and bookings, QR ordering and gift cards are live. Until this second, everything was free.

    Publish on a free yourname.tablespark.uk address, or connect your own domain with managed SSL on Growth and Full.

    maido.tablespark.uk

    Honest small print — one sitting gets you live and taking orders. Perfecting photography and wording takes as long as you enjoy giving it.

    app.tablespark.uk · OrdersStep 5 · Orders
    The Orders screen: twelve orders in progress, filter tabs and order cards with Confirmed status, table and guest count and line items
Nothing to learn

If you can send a text, you're overqualified.

TableSpark assumes you have a restaurant to run — so there is nothing to study first.

A restaurant owner publishing their own site, unassisted
  • Plain EnglishButtons say what they do
  • Defaults already setIgnore them forever if you like
  • Impossible to breakEverything undoes
  • One loginSite, bookings, orders, guests
One system

Everything after runs on the same login.

Bookings, orders, payments, guests, marketing, search — one product, on one bill, talking to one menu. It is all one half of TableSpark's restaurant website builder; the site itself is the other.

A finished restaurant home page built on TableSparkThe site
Fifty templates, ready to serve.Sixty-eight blocks, a free yourname.tablespark.uk address, and your own custom domain with managed SSL when you want it.
The Menu page with photographed dish rows and pricesThe menu
Change it once.One multilingual menu, with allergens and dietary marks, synced to the site, the QR codes and every order screen.
The New booking form with its mini floor-plan table pickerReservations
Fill tables directly.Live availability across your own table inventory and floor plans, with instant confirmation, deposits, reminders and a Reserve with Google booking-link connection.
The direct Order page on a restaurant’s own site in Collection modeOrdering
Keep the margin.Online ordering at the table, for collection or for delivery, at 0% TableSpark commission.
Settings, Payments: Powered by Stripe, 0% platform commission and the Connect Stripe buttonPayments & gift cards
Paid straight to you.Card payments and gift cards settle into your own Stripe account, with POS connections for the till.
The Guests page: KPI tiles, a 14-day activity chart, segment pills and guest rows with tagsGuests & marketing
Your guest list, yours.Every booking and order becomes a guest record under your restaurant’s account, exportable as CSV, ready for segments and campaigns.
The bookings report: bookings, covers, no-show and cancel rates, covers over time, by service and by party sizeThe numbers
Real margin, from real orders.Covers, no-shows and revenue from the orders you actually took — first-party and consent-gated.
The restaurant found on GoogleBeing found
A live link is not the same as an indexed one.Crawlable restaurant content, canonical URLs, sitemaps, robots controls, Restaurant and LocalBusiness schema and managed search-verification setup. Indexing and ranking remain decisions for Google.

When one system knows the menu, the tables and the guests, everything else stops being your job.

Your guests’ app

Growth and Full sites ship with an app your guests keep.

At /account on your own site, guests get five tabs: Home, Rewards, My Card, Visit and Account. Points, rewards, a member card with a QR the till scans, your hours and directions, their bookings, orders, gift balance and consents. It installs to a phone’s home screen from your site, under your name.

The Guest App Home tab on a phone: a greeting, the guest’s next visit with Change and Cancel, points progress and Book and Order buttonsHome · next visit
The Guest App Rewards tab: 120 points with a progress ring, the member card number, two live campaigns and the rewards listRewards · points & campaigns
The Guest App Account tab with the Gift cards panel open, showing a card balance and its codeAccount · gift balance
The Guest App Account tab listing the upcoming booking and two past visitsAccount · bookings & orders

You design the campaigns in the Builder: double-points windows, a welcome bonus, referral codes, coupons, stamp cards, birthday rewards, emails in your own words and review routing. Every offer, budget and per-guest limit is yours to set, and every point a campaign gives is traceable in your ledger.

The market, honestly

What this replaces.

Three usual routes online. All three work. All three cost more than they look.

Route one

The generic builder

£10–25 a month, plus your evenings

Fine websites — for anyone. Bookings and ordering are someone else’s plugin, and the menu gets re-typed into each.

Route two

The marketplaces

25–35% of every order, plus VAT on the fee

A 30% headline is roughly 36% off the top — and the diner belongs to them, not to you.

Route three

The agency

£3,000–£10,000, and a few weeks

Beautiful, eventually — then every menu change is a billable email.

TableSpark Generic builder + plugins Marketplaces Agency site
Time to first orderMinutes, not weeksWeeks of eveningsDays — under their brandSeveral weeks
Built for restaurants✓ Every block of itGeneric, plus pluginsOne job each — delivery or bookingsDepends who you hire
Order commission0%0% + plugin fees25–35% + VAT on the fee0%
Booking cover feesNoneVia widget — often per cover~£1 a cover + subscriptionVia widget — often per cover
Who owns the guest list✓ You doScattered across the toolsThe platformYou — if it was specified
Tools to stitch together03–5One per marketplace3–5, billed hourly
When the rules changeHandled, and written upYour jobTheir terms, their callA billable request

Typical published UK rates, checked August 2026. Individual contracts vary — the point stands either way.

The quiet difference —

on a marketplace, the diner is their customer. Here, every booking and order becomes a guest record under your own account — yours to export, write to, or take with you.

Kept compliant, kept current

Rules change. Your site keeps up.

Hospitality law does not sit still — allergen guidance, promotion rules, privacy. The website side is handled inside the platform, and when the rules move, we publish what it means for restaurants in plain English, linked straight to the official source.

Handled in the platform

  • UK GDPR, done properly — decline means off.
  • Consent-gated embeds — nothing loads until a guest agrees.
  • Data rights built in — erasure, export, deletion.
  • All fourteen allergens — on every dish, everywhere.
  • Legal pages generated — privacy, cookies, terms.
  • Secure by default — bot protection, roles, 2FA, SSL.

When Westminster moves, we write it up

Plain-English write-ups of every change that touches restaurants, as they happen — in the Journal.

Before you start

Six quick answers.

How long does it take?

Scan to publish is measured in minutes, not days — the menu scan drafts the site, and bookings, ordering and payments are already built in rather than bolted on. Adding your own photographs and polishing every word takes as long as you enjoy giving it. Most restaurants finish the same afternoon. If you would rather read it through first, there is a step-by-step restaurant website guide in the Journal.

Do I need to learn anything first?

No. There is no tutorial to watch and no manual to read. Screens are written in plain English, defaults are already sensible, and every change can be undone — so the worst mistake you can make is one click to fix. See the menu-photo scanning workflow if you want to know what the scan reads before you upload.

What does TableSpark replace?

A website builder, a booking system, an online-ordering product, gift-card software, an email marketing tool and an analytics dashboard. If you still want the delivery apps for discovery, keep them — your site can link out to them while your regulars order direct at 0%.

Who owns my guest data?

You do. Every booking, order and enquiry becomes a guest record held under your restaurant’s own account — exportable as CSV whenever you like, erased on request when a guest asks. TableSpark never markets to your guests or sells your data.

Can guests book from Google?

Direct TableSpark bookings run against your own tables and floor plan, with instant confirmation or a booking-enquiry workflow, deposits, reminders and POS connections on Growth; online ordering is on Full. See how live tables and floor plans work and follow the direct online-ordering setup guide. Those direct features run on your own site at 0% TableSpark commission. Separately, Growth includes a Reserve with Google booking-link connection that publishes your configured supported-provider destination. Direct TableSpark reservations, enquiries and orders are held under your restaurant account in one Inbox. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

Who handles compliance?

The website side is the platform’s job: cookie consent, privacy pages, data rights, secure forms. When UK rules change, we publish plain-English updates linked to the official guidance. What happens in your kitchen remains your own responsibility — but the digital parts, like allergen information on every menu, are made easy to keep right.

Ready when you are

Minutes from now, you could be taking orders.

Free until you publish. No card, no call, nothing to install.

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0% TableSpark commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.