Restaurant · Guide Updated August 2026

How to Build a Restaurant Website Without Coding (In Under 20 Minutes)

Building your own restaurant website is not optional. More than 77% of people who decide to go out and eat check your website first to see if it matches what they want. More than 43% of takeout and delivery customers do the same. A bad website, or no website, costs you real sales every single day.

You have three options when it comes to getting a website built. First, you hire an agency. That comes with a hefty price tag that is brutal to absorb when you are just starting out. Second, you hire a freelancer overseas. That route introduces miscommunication, lag time, and a product that rarely matches what you had in your head. Third, you build it yourself. That third option is exactly what this guide walks you through.

Why Building It Yourself Is the Right Call

The case is simple. When you own the website editor, you never pay $50 an hour for someone to swap out a menu item or change your hours. You come in, click a few buttons, and you are done. Updates happen in real time, on your schedule.

No-code builders like Wix have over 60 restaurant templates that look genuinely good. There are options for coffee shops, pubs, bakeries, healthy food concepts, and more. You pick the one that fits your brand, swap in your own images and copy, and your website looks professional from day one.

You need zero coding knowledge. The entire platform works by clicking and typing.

How Do You Set Up the Menu Page?

This is the first of three core pages your restaurant website needs.

Start by selecting your template and entering the editor. Click on “Pages” in the left panel and navigate to the Menu page. Wix pre-populates it with sample items, so you are not starting from scratch.

Double-click anywhere on the menu section and select “Edit Menu.” From there you can:

• Delete or archive categories you do not offer. If you do not sell desserts, archive that section and it disappears from the live site.
• Reorder sections by clicking and dragging them up or down.
• Edit individual items. Rename them, rewrite the description, update the price, and assign icons that tell customers whether a dish is vegan, vegetarian, or how spicy it is.
• Set stock status. If you run out of an item mid-service, you can log in and mark it out of stock on the spot.
• Upload your own photos. Use images you have actually taken of your food. A real photo of your dish builds more trust than a stock image. Wix also gives you access to Shutterstock and Unsplash if you need a placeholder while your own photos are being shot.

Once your items are updated, you can change the layout of the menu display. Wix offers several layout styles, from a condensed list to a richer card-style view that shows the item photo prominently. Choose the layout that puts your food front and center.

After you finish the desktop version, switch to the mobile editor and check how everything looks on a phone screen. The mobile editor lets you hide sections you do not need, reposition buttons, and make sure the experience is clean for someone browsing on their lunch break.

How Do You Set Up Online Ordering?

Navigate to the “Order Online” page in your editor. Click “Manage Orders” and you will land in the Wix dashboard. This is where you configure every detail of how customers place and receive orders.

A few things to set up here:

Payment. To accept orders and collect payment online, you need to connect a payment method to your bank account or PayPal. Until that is connected, you can still use the platform for phone orders where customers call in and pay on arrival.

Pickup settings. Add your location address, set your operating hours (for example, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day), and define how long it takes to prepare an order. If your kitchen needs 30 minutes, enter 30 minutes. That window is shown to customers at checkout so expectations are set before they ever call you.

Delivery settings. Toggle delivery on, set a minimum order amount, add a delivery fee, set a maximum delivery time, and define your delivery radius. A 5-mile radius is a reasonable starting point for most single-location operations.

Advanced settings. You can allow customers to leave a tip before they check out. You can also allow customers to schedule future orders up to 7 days in advance, which is useful for catering pickups or planned family meals.

Closing the shop. If you need to take a day off, you can turn ordering off entirely and add a custom message. You come back, flip the switch, and you are live again.

One thing worth knowing about third-party delivery apps: they charge 20 to 30% commission on every order. Because of that, it makes sense to build a separate menu on your own site with items that carry higher margins. You control which items appear for delivery versus pickup versus phone order directly inside the Wix menu editor.

When you preview the ordering flow, customers can choose delivery or pickup, pick a time slot, add items, leave order notes, and check out. The whole experience runs inside your own website, not inside a third-party app that takes a cut.

How Do You Add a Reservations Page?

Reservations are the third page your restaurant website needs, and Wix does not include it in the default template setup. You add it yourself in about two minutes.

Go to “Pages,” click “Add Page,” and name it Reservations. Then click “Add Apps” in the left panel and search for “Wix Reservations.” Install it, and the reservation widget drops directly onto your new page. Resize and center it so it fills the page cleanly.

Then add a Reservations link to your main navigation menu. Click into your menu editor, add a new item called Reservations, and point it to the page you just created. Now visitors can reach it from anywhere on the site.

Inside the Reservations settings, you control:

• Maximum party size per reservation (set it to match your largest table).
• Advance notice required. You can require customers to book at least 30 minutes ahead, or set it to 24 hours if you do not take same-day reservations.
• Grace period. You can hold a table for up to 15 minutes before the booking is released.
• Available hours. You do not have to accept reservations during all operating hours. If you only seat reservations Thursday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., you set exactly those windows and nothing else shows as bookable.

Wix also sends confirmation messages to customers automatically, either confirming the reservation immediately or marking it as pending until you manually approve it.

Does Your Website Look Right on Mobile?

Always check the mobile version before you publish. Most of your customers will find you on their phones. Use the mobile toggle in the Wix editor to switch views, scroll through every section, and hide anything that clutters the experience. The goal is a clean page where the menu, ordering button, and reservation link are all easy to tap without pinching or zooming.

The Bottom Line

The two biggest mistakes restaurant owners make with websites are overpaying someone else to build one and then being too dependent on that person for every small update. When you build it yourself, you move fast and stay current. One viewer put it well: to survive, you have to innovate, and to implement your innovations you have to be able to update your own website. That is exactly right. Own the tool, own the update, own the customer experience.

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