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What a restaurant website should cost — and what you’re paying for.
Quotes run ₹3,000 to ₹3,00,000 and the number alone tells you nothing. The honest bands, what the money buys, and when cheap is genuinely the right call.
By Amulya Vashistha, Brand, Photo & Film · 6 min read · more notes
Restaurant website quotes in India run from ₹3,000 to ₹3,00,000 — and the number alone tells you almost nothing. What matters is what the money buys: speed on a cheap phone, a booking that takes three taps, a page Google can place in your city. Here’s the honest breakdown, including when the cheap option is genuinely the right call.
₹3,000–10,000 — the template you assemble yourself
A site-builder subscription and an evening of work. Honest use case: you’re brand new, cash is tight, and you need an address on the internet this week. Its limits arrive fast — generic look, slow on mobile data, no real local SEO. If this is your budget, the $29 Kit is designed to make exactly this route look far more expensive than it was.
₹15,000–30,000 — the freelancer build
Real design work, usually on WordPress or a builder. The two things to check before paying: page speed on an actual phone (ask to test their last three sites on yours), and whose name the hosting and domain are in. A beautiful site you don’t own, on hosting you can’t leave, is a hostage situation with good typography.
₹40,000–80,000 — the studio build
Custom design, conversion thinking, local SEO in the structure, booking or ordering wired in, and analytics so you can see what works. This is the band where a website stops being a brochure and starts being a front desk. Ours is ₹45,000, priced on the page — hosted, cared for, and in your name from day one.
What you’re actually paying for, at any price
Four things decide whether a restaurant website earns money: it loads before a hungry person gives up (under four seconds on mobile data); the menu is a page, not a 4 MB PDF; calling, WhatsApp and booking are one tap; and the city is written where Google can read it. A ₹3,00,000 site that misses these earns less than a ₹30,000 one that nails them.
The running costs nobody mentions
Domain ₹800–1,500/year. Decent hosting ₹2,000–6,000/year (or bundled into care plans like our $150/month Care, which includes updates and fixes). Watch for “maintenance” retainers that charge monthly but change nothing — updates should be listed in the invoice, or free.
The one-minute decision
New and broke: template + Kit, spend the savings on photos. Established and busy: the studio band, once, done properly — it outlasts three cheap rebuilds. In between: a freelancer you’ve vetted with the speed-and-ownership questions above.
Already have a site and not sure which band it’s really in? Send it over — the free teardown will tell you in 48 hours whether it needs three fixes or a rebuild.
Quick answers
Asked most often.
How much does a restaurant website cost in India?
₹3,000–10,000 DIY on a template, ₹15,000–30,000 from a freelancer, ₹40,000–80,000 from a studio with conversion and local SEO built in. Running costs add roughly ₹3,000–7,500 a year.
Is a template website good enough for a restaurant?
If you’re new and cash-tight, yes — provided it loads fast on mobile, the menu is a page (not a PDF), and calling or booking is one tap. Those three matter more than how custom it looks.
What should I check before paying a web designer?
Test their last three sites on your own phone for speed, and confirm the domain and hosting will be in your name. Ownership and speed are the two things you can’t fix later cheaply.
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