Restaurants, cafés & bars
Last spring's PDF menu is costing you tables tonight.
Mainfolk builds your restaurant a real website in about a minute: menus, hours, and specials that anyone on staff can change from a phone, marked up so Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT can actually read what you serve and recommend you. You approve it live before you pay a dollar.
Free plan, free forever. Most restaurants are perfect on Launch at $15/mo. No credit card, no contract.
- Update the menu from your phone
- Built to be recommended by AI
- Opens instantly on a phone
- You own it, no lock-in
Be the answer
"Where should we eat tonight?" is now a question people ask a robot.
Your next table is deciding right now, and increasingly they are not scrolling a list of ten blue links. They are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI answers for somewhere good nearby that is open late and has something the kid will eat. Those systems cannot read a PDF menu, and they cannot read a photo of your specials board. Every Mainfolk site ships the signals they do read.
Your menu, as real data
Dishes, prices, and sections marked up as Menu and Restaurant structured data, so search engines can show what you serve instead of a link to a download.
Readable by AI assistants
A per-site llms.txt and clean semantic HTML, so when someone asks an assistant for a good bite in your town, your cuisine, hours, and price range are there to be quoted.
Hours that are actually right
Holiday hours, a kitchen closing early, a patio opening for the season. Change it once and it updates everywhere a machine reads it, not just where a human looks.
Built for a working kitchen
The things a restaurant actually needs, already on the site.
You are not staring at a blank canvas wondering what goes where. The pieces are built in. You drop in your words and your photos.
A menu you can edit at the pass
Sections, dishes, descriptions, and prices as real page content. Change a price or pull an item on your phone between covers, and it is live in under a minute.
Hours, location & the map
When you are open, where to park, and a tap-to-navigate map. The three things every first-time guest checks before they get in the car.
Specials & announcement banner
Tonight's special, a private event, closing for a holiday, or the patio opening. Post a site-wide banner in seconds and take it down just as fast.
Events & private bookings
Live music, trivia night, the tasting dinner, and a clear path for someone who wants to book the back room. With RSVPs when you want a headcount.
Reservations & contact that lands
Link out to the booking platform you already use, and take catering and private-event inquiries through a form that hits your inbox and keeps a copy so nothing gets lost.
A gallery that sells the room
The food, the bar, the patio, the people. Photos load fast and look right on a phone, because that is where nearly everyone is looking at you.
The proof
Don't take our word for it. Open one.
Both of these were generated end to end by Mainfolk: pages, copy, palette, imagery, and structure. They are live right now. Open them on your phone, run a speed test, navigate them with only the keyboard. They hold up, and that is the whole point.
riverbend-coffee.mainfolk.com
Riverbend Coffee Co.
A corner café: menu, hours, the story of the place, and a map to the door. The reference build we point everyone at.
elm-street-bakery.mainfolk.com
Elm Street Bakery
A family bakery: breads and pastries, custom cake inquiries, and morning hours. Same engine, completely different room.
The easy part is us
We build it. You approve it. Then you pay.
You are running a kitchen, not a web project. Tell us the name, the town, and what you serve. That is the whole intake. We build the complete first draft, and nothing costs you a thing until you have seen the real site and said yes.
- A five-minute brief. Your name, your trade, your town. No blank canvas, no jargon, no discovery call.
- A complete first draft in about a minute. Pages, real copy in your voice, palette, typography, and imagery. Not a blank template.
- You approve it live before you pay. See the real thing on a real web address first. No surprises, no deposit.
- Nothing to maintain. No plugins to update, nothing to patch, no 3 a.m. white screen taking your menu offline on a Friday.
- No contract. Month to month, cancel anytime, and your site keeps working on the free plan if you do.
- You own it. Export your pages, words, images, and inquiries anytime, free. Take your domain with you.
The honest price
Start free. Most restaurants are perfect at $15 a month.
No per-feature upsells, no locked-in content, no surprise renewal hike in year two.
Launch gives you your own domain name, no Mainfolk badge, and more AI help each month. Start on the free plan for as long as you like first. Step up to Pro ($29/mo) only if you want to see who is visiting. Hosting, the security certificate, updates, and get-found-by-Google-and-AI optimization are included at every tier.
★ Rather we build the whole thing for you? White-Glove Design is a one-time $199.Comparing options? See how we stack up against Wix & Squarespace, a WordPress build, or read the full pricing page.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Can my staff update the menu without calling a developer?
Yes. The menu is click-to-edit from any phone. Change a price, 86 an item, or post tonight's special, hit publish, and it is live worldwide in under a minute. No plugins, no logins to hunt down, and no developer invoice for changing a number.
Will my restaurant show up when someone asks ChatGPT where to eat?
That is exactly what the build is aimed at. Every Mainfolk restaurant site ships Restaurant and Menu structured data, semantic HTML, and a per-site llms.txt written for AI assistants, so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers can read your cuisine, hours, price range, and menu and quote you. A PDF menu is invisible to all of them.
Do I still need my PDF menu?
No, and it is quietly costing you covers. A PDF is slow on a phone, unreadable to screen readers, and effectively invisible to search engines and AI assistants. Mainfolk builds the menu as real, readable page content. You can still offer a printable version alongside it if you want one.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
Start free, forever, on a mainfolk.com address. Launch is $15 a month for your own domain name with no Mainfolk badge, which is where most restaurants land. Hosting, the security certificate, updates, and search optimization are included at every tier, and there is no contract. See the full pricing page.
How long does it take to launch?
The AI produces a complete first draft, pages, copy, palette, and imagery, in about a minute. Most restaurants review it, drop in their real menu and photos, and are live within days. The long pole is usually finding good photos of the food, not us.
Can I keep my current domain name?
Yes. Sites launch on a mainfolk.com address so you can see the real thing immediately, and move to your own domain whenever you are ready. If you already own one, you point it at us and keep it. It stays yours either way.
Put your place on the map
Your menu should be as current as your specials board.
Build your restaurant's site free in about a minute and see the real thing before you spend a dollar.