Website builders for restaurants, and where Rowbo fits
The ordering platforms will sell a restaurant a website; Rowbo sells the website itself, at £30 a month, from your Google listing. The menu photos, the hours and the reviews come across, and your own .com is in the price. Owner.com, Butternut and WebMeccano each do it their own way. A look first, no card.
What you get for £30 a month
- A real multi-page website, built from the Google listing you already have.
- Your own .com, registered and pointed at it, in the price.
- Hosting and updates, so there is nothing else to renew and nothing to install.
- Your photos, your hours, your services and your reviews, already on the page.
- Any change you want, made by us: the words, the photos, the colours, a whole new page. Just tell us.
- A site Google can index and ChatGPT can read.
- We go through your Google listing and fix what is holding it back: the link to your site, the categories, the hours and the photos.
- Built and checked by us, and yours to look at before you keep it.
- No setup fee, no minimum term, and you can cancel any month.
- A price one extra customer a week covers, with nothing else to pay for.
- Our estimate: around 10 more customers a month. Based on typical monthly searches for a local business in a UK town and what a page-one result gets.
What you pay in year one
Butternut AI Starter is $20 a month, about £16 at the £1 to $1.27 rate, and you build the site by prompting. Prices checked 12 August 2026.
A freelancer builds a 5 to 15 page site from £500, at general UK rates. Prices checked 21 September 2026.
£692 in year one
£30 a month, 12 months, £360. Built for you, included, no setup fee.
£360 in year one
That is £332 less in year one at general UK rates, and nobody to hire.
Side by side
Prices checked 12 August 2026.
The three builders show the prices they list, from our August pricing research. Ours is £30 a month, billed monthly.
Why owners pick Rowbo
A couple deciding where to eat on Friday search Google first, then open a website and read the menu. Your menu photos, your hours and your reviews are already on your Google listing, and that is what most restaurant sites are made of. We read it and build the pages, so there is no brief and nothing for you to write. We check every page before you see it, and the £30 covers the hosting, the domain and the updates.
If you want online ordering and a branded app taking orders, Owner.com is built for that; we build the website itself.
Questions owners ask.
What do restaurant website builders cost?
They range from free tiers up to $499 a month at Owner.com for ordering and an app. Butternut is $20 a month. Rowbo is £30 a month with the .com, hosting and updates in it. Prices checked 12 August 2026.
Do I have to build the menu myself?
Not with Rowbo: we read your menu photos, hours and reviews off your Google listing. Owner.com and Butternut build the menu inside their own tools instead.
How is this different from a restaurant website builder?
We build from your Google listing, so there’s no brief and the menu photos come across. We check it and get in touch within one working day. Owner.com adds ordering and an app, which is the thing you are paying for there.
See your menu on a page of your own.
£360 a year, built for you. Give us your restaurant’s name and how to reach you. No card, and a look first.
No card needed