A restaurant website has three jobs that matter: show the menu, take orders, fill tables. Everything else is decoration. Wix bundles all three into a suite it calls Wix Restaurants — a set of first-party apps that live inside the dashboard rather than third-party bolt-ons. This piece walks through what each tool actually does, what the whole setup costs, and the exact point where the free plan stops being enough. Everything below is checked against Wix's official documentation and its plans page as of October 2026.
One ground rule before we start: no invented numbers here. Where a figure appears — plan prices especially — it reflects Wix's own pages at our latest check, and Wix's site is the only authoritative source for live pricing. When Wix discounts run, they apply automatically at checkout; there are no coupon codes to hunt for.
Three tools, one suite
Wix Restaurants isn't a single product. It's three apps that share data, plus restaurant-specific templates to start from:
- Wix Restaurants Menus — the digital menu builder.
- Wix Restaurant Orders — online ordering for pickup, delivery and dine-in.
- Wix Table Reservations — a booking system with a visual floor plan.
The apps themselves are included with Wix; the cost driver underneath is the plan, because two of the three jobs — taking payments and taking bookings online — require an upgrade. More on that below.
Digital menus that actually look like menus
The Menus app builds mobile-friendly menus with real structure rather than a PDF upload. You organize dishes into sections — Starters, Mains, Desserts — and add variations like sizes or toppings, which Wix calls modifiers. Items can be marked as market price, menus can be duplicated (handy for a lunch versus dinner menu) and translated for multilingual service, and the same menu can be displayed across different pages of the site with its own SEO settings per page.
Worth knowing: you can display a restaurant menu on a free Wix site without any plan at all. If all you need today is a decent-looking menu at your own domain-free URL, the free plan does that job. What it can't do is take money — that's the upgrade line.
Online ordering, direct from your own site
The Orders app is the operational heart of the suite. It handles real-time orders for pickup, delivery and contactless dine-in, where seated guests order from their table. Around the core flow sit the details that decide whether online ordering actually works on a busy Friday: prep times, advance ordering, order scheduling, printed tickets for staff, editing an order after checkout, full or partial refunds, automatically generated invoices, and an order-tracking page customers can follow. There's also a Square POS integration for restaurants already running Square hardware.
On the growth side, the app connects to Order with Google, so your menu and ordering link can surface in Google Search, Maps and Assistant — and it can connect to delivery platforms like DoorDash Drive to handle fulfillment runs. Marketing tools are built in: coupons (percentage discounts and buy-X-get-Y offers), a points-based loyalty program and digital gift cards that customers buy and redeem on your site. Multi-location restaurants get roles and permissions per location, so staff only see the venue they work in.
One structural detail we like: you can run up to five separate online ordering pages, each with its own menu, hours and fulfillment settings. Everyday menu on one page, happy hour on another, catering orders on a third — no contortions required.
Reservations that protect your tables
Wix Table Reservations covers the booking side. You choose whether reservations are approved automatically or reviewed manually, set party-size limits and table availability, define turnover times between seatings, and require prepayment or deposits for large groups — a practical lever against no-shows. A visual floor plan shows at a glance which tables are booked and which are free.
The same upgrade rule applies here: letting guests book online requires a paid plan. Taking reservations by phone or walk-in and adding them manually, however, always works — so you can run the reservation book informally on the free plan while you build the site.
What the whole thing actually costs
The apps come included with Wix — there's no separate subscription for the restaurant suite in Wix's official documentation. The dividing line is payments. To accept online orders or online reservations you need to upgrade, and the entry point is Core: $29/mo billed yearly ($36 month-to-month), which unlocks payments along with basic eCommerce. Business at $39/mo billed yearly adds the fuller eCommerce toolkit if you eventually sell merchandise or run subscriptions alongside the restaurant. Light at $17/mo billed yearly does not accept payments — it suits a display-only menu site with your own domain. Prices verified October 2026; check wix.com for live figures, and see our Wix pricing breakdown for the plan-by-plan detail.
Two cost notes that matter for a restaurant's margins. First, Wix doesn't take its own commission on your orders — payment processing fees from your provider still apply, as with any online checkout. Second, annual billing runs roughly 25–35% below monthly pricing every day of the year, and seasonal promotions take up to around 50% off while they run. When those sales appear, the discount applies automatically on Wix's plans page — no code required. Timing matters more than hunting; our sale calendar maps the windows.
Where it fits — and where it doesn't
Wix Restaurants fits independents: cafés, bistros, pizzerias and quick-service spots that want direct orders through their own site, own the customer relationship, and keep the margin that third-party marketplaces skim. Setup is doable without a developer, and the Wix mobile app lets you accept orders and reservations from your phone.
The limits are equally real. This isn't a full back-of-house system: beyond printed order tickets there's no dedicated kitchen-display rig (though the Square POS integration covers part of that ground), and delivery logistics remain your responsibility even with a DoorDash Drive connection. Just as important, direct ordering only beats a marketplace if customers can find you — a marketplace brings its own traffic, while your own site brings yours. Budget for promoting the site, not just building it. For a second opinion on the builder itself, our Wix review covers the platform end to end.
A sensible setup order
If you're starting this week, the sequence that avoids rework:
- 1. Start from a restaurant template — or describe your restaurant to Wix's AI builder and refine what it generates.
- 2. Build the menu first in the Menus app. Ordering and the menu share data, so a clean menu makes every later step easier.
- 3. Add Orders and Table Reservations, then set prep times, service hours, delivery areas and reservation approval rules.
- 4. Upgrade to Core or Business, connect a payment provider — our eCommerce setup guide walks the process — and place one test order and one test reservation before service.
A restaurant site is an operational tool, not a brochure — the goal is a menu that's always current, an ordering flow that survives a rush, and a reservation book that doesn't double-book the patio. Start free if you're still shaping the concept, and upgrade the day you're ready to take the first online order. When you do, check the deals hub first — every Wix offer we list is verified and date-stamped.