01 · Website builder
Not a page with your opening hours on it. A restaurant site with the menu, bookings, ordering and search setup built in, that you can finish in an afternoon and change between services.
A general website builder gives you a home page, a contact form and a PDF upload. The menu goes in as a picture, the table booking goes to a widget from somebody else's platform, and the ordering goes to a marketplace that keeps a share of every bill. Three logins, three bills, and a site that Google reads as a brochure, not as a restaurant.
We checked 1,000 independent UK restaurant websites with the same engine behind our free checker. Of the 755 that loaded, 77% had no usable Restaurant schema, 31% had no meta description, 35% had no H1, one in ten published the menu as a PDF only, and 13% sent orders to a commission-charging marketplace. Those are not design problems. They are what happens when a restaurant is squeezed into a tool built for everyone.
A restaurant website builder should start from the menu, treat bookings and ordering as pages of the same site, and ship the search configuration without a technician. That is what TableSpark builds, for £19 a month excluding VAT, with nothing to pay until the site is published.
Start today, pay when it is live
Sign up, pick a template, scan the menu, edit every page and preview it on a phone. The paid plan starts on the day you press Publish, not the day you start. If the site is not right, you have spent nothing.
Fifty finished designs
Every template is a complete restaurant site: home, menu, bookings, about, contact and the legal pages, laid out for food photography and phone screens. Open one, read what it is for, press Use this template, and the whole site is yours to edit. You can switch designs later without losing the menu.
One menu, every page
Scan the printed menu or upload the PDF. Sections, dishes, prices, allergens and dietary tags become structured fields you check once. The same menu then feeds the menu page, the QR table menu, the ordering pages and the Restaurant schema Google reads, so a price changed on Tuesday is correct everywhere by Tuesday lunch.
No developer, no ticket
The builder shows your pages on the left, the sections on each page, and an inspector for the one you clicked. Change a headline, swap a photo, add an events block or a gallery, and watch it update in the preview. Sixty-eight content modules, drag-and-drop ordering, and inline text editing on the page itself.
Where guests actually look
Most guests open a restaurant site on a phone, often standing outside. The device buttons above the preview switch between desktop, tablet and phone so you can see the menu, the Book button and the tap-to-call before you publish. In our 1,000-site check, 55% of restaurant sites had no tap-to-call link at all.
Found, not just online
Every page has a name, a clean URL slug, an SEO title and a description, right in Page settings. Behind them, TableSpark writes the Restaurant and LocalBusiness schema, the canonical URL, the sitemap and the robots rules, and submits the sitemap to Google Search Console on every publish. A live link is not the same as being indexed; this is the part most builders leave to a technician.
Press Publish
Publishing puts the site on a free tablespark.uk address immediately. On Growth and Full you connect a domain you already own by copying one DNS record, or buy one inside Settings at itemised prices, and TableSpark manages the SSL certificate, the DNS records and the Search Console verification for you.
Not a widget, a page
When you are ready, the Book page runs on your real tables with live availability, deposits and reminders, and the Order page takes collection, delivery and table orders at 0% TableSpark commission. Both are built by the same builder, styled by the same template, and every booking or order lands in the same Inbox as your enquiries.
The whole bill, not the headline
Starter at £19 a month excluding VAT is the complete site: builder, 50 templates, live menu, hours, enquiry forms into one Inbox and managed search readiness. Growth at £39 a month excluding VAT adds live bookings, tables, deposits, your own domain and guest email. Full at £69 a month excluding VAT adds online ordering, table QR ordering and up to five sites. Billed monthly.
Watch it
Template, menu scan, edit and publish, recorded on the live app in one sitting.
How it connects
The pages it builds are the same pages that take bookings and orders, so there is nothing to bolt on later.
Plan & price
Starter is £19 a month excluding VAT, with the whole site free to build until you publish. Growth is £39 a month excluding VAT and adds bookings, tables and your own domain. Full is £69 a month excluding VAT and adds online ordering.
Prices exclude VAT. 0% TableSpark commission on the bookings and orders your plan includes. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. Compare every plan.
Most owners have a complete draft the same day: choose a template, scan the menu, correct the prices, swap in your photos and preview on a phone. Publishing is one button. You can keep editing after it is live.
Yes. You build and review the whole site without a card. The Starter plan at £19 a month excluding VAT begins when you publish, and it is billed monthly with no annual prepayment.
Yes, on Growth and Full. Connect a domain you already own by copying one DNS record, or buy one inside Settings. SSL, DNS and the Search Console property are managed for you. Every plan also gets a free tablespark.uk address.
No. Page titles and descriptions are fields you fill in, and the Restaurant and LocalBusiness schema, canonical URLs, sitemap and robots rules are written by the builder. The sitemap is submitted to Google Search Console on every publish. Indexing and ranking remain Google's decisions.
No. The menu is structured data: sections, dishes, prices, allergens and tags, edited in one place and shown as readable text on the menu page, the QR table menu and the ordering pages. Guests on a phone read it without zooming.
Run it through the free website checker first. If you move, build the new site on TableSpark while the old one stays live, then point your domain at the new site when you are happy with it.
A general builder gives you pages and leaves the restaurant parts to add-ons. TableSpark starts from the menu, builds bookings and ordering as pages of the same site, keeps guest records in one Inbox with CSV export, and ships the search configuration, for £19 a month excluding VAT.
Pick a template, scan your menu, and publish when it is right. Nothing to pay until then.