A restaurant website costs what you pay for the design and development, plus a monthly fee if you want to keep it visible. At Hyper Vision Co., that is $300, $599, $2,000, or $3,750+ for the build. Then it is $100 per month for local SEO, $150 for a blog, or $200 to manage ads. The budget for the ads is paid directly to Google or Meta.

This post itemises what those prices cover. It matches our published pricing against the things a restaurant actually needs. If you already have a working site that takes online orders, you should probably keep it.

1. The Four Build Tiers for Restaurants

Our builds are fixed price. You choose the tier that matches what your restaurant needs to do.

The Spotlight ($300) is one page. It is for a restaurant that needs the phone to ring. It lists the address, hours, and a menu. It is not for taking orders. It is the simplest way to have a professional online presence.

The Landmark ($599) is a full site. Every service, like catering or private dining, gets its own page. The English and Korean versions live on separate URLs, which helps both languages rank in search. This is our most common restaurant build.

The Storefront ($2,000) is an online store. It takes payment on day one. It is for restaurants that need to sell gift cards, merchandise, or meal kits directly, not just link to a delivery app. It includes both languages.

The Flagship ($3,750+) is custom. It uses React or Next.js. It is for restaurants that need customer accounts, loyalty portals, or deep integrations with their point of sale or reservation system. We quote these individually.

WHAT YOU OWN: When we finish, you own the code, the design files, and the hosting account. We do not use purchased themes. This is different from many agencies.

2. The Monthly Costs After Launch

A website is not a one time cost. To be found, it needs ongoing work. Our monthly retainers are month to month, with no contract.

Local SEO ($100/month) is for visibility in Google Maps and local search. We manage your Google Business Profile, citations, and local directory listings. We do not promise number one rankings.

Blog Service ($150/month) is for content. We write and publish one original, bilingual article per month tailored to your restaurant and local area. This helps with broader search visibility.

Google and Meta Ads ($200/month) is for management. We set up, monitor, and adjust search and social ad campaigns. The ad budget itself is paid by you directly to the advertising platform. A common driver of cost here is the commission taken by delivery apps (often 15 to 30 percent), which makes direct advertising for pickup more attractive.

You can choose one, all, or none. A new site with no ongoing work will simply sit online.

3. What is Not in Our Price (The Cost Drivers)

Our prices cover design, development, and our copywriting in English and Korean. They do not cover everything. Here are the other cost drivers you must plan for.

Domain and Hosting: You will pay for these annually, separately. We set up the account in your name.

Photography: Professional photos of your food and space are the single biggest factor in a restaurant site's quality. Our designs are built to showcase them. If you use stock or phone photos, the site will look like it.

Third Party Services: If you need a specific online ordering system, reservation widget, or email marketing tool, there is usually a monthly fee for that software. We can integrate it.

Content Updates: Changing menu items or prices regularly has a cost in time. For simple text updates, we offer a prepaid block of hours. For frequent changes, a content management system is part of the Landmark tier and above.

4. Why Bilingual is a Line Item, Not a Feature

For a Korean American restaurant, a bilingual site is not a bonus. It is a core business tool. We treat it as a fundamental line item.

Our Korean pages are written by a native speaker, never run through a translator. The English and Korean versions live on separate URLs (like yoursite.com/menu and yoursite.com/kr/menu), connected properly with hreflang tags. This technical setup allows Google to index and rank each language version independently. A single page that toggles between languages cannot do this effectively.

This approach serves two distinct audiences: the broader English speaking community and the Korean speaking community that seeks authenticity. You can see this approach on our Korean site.

5. When to Keep What You Have

Not every restaurant needs a new website. It is often not worth the cost.

Keep your current site if it takes online orders reliably and you are happy with it. The disruption may not be worth it.

Keep your current site if you are on a delivery app like DoorDash or Uber Eats and that is your only online sales channel. Their commission is high, but building a competing ordering system may not have a good return unless you sell high margin items like gift cards.

Keep your current site if you are planning to sell or retire soon. A basic, functional site is enough.

The time to change is when your site hurts your credibility, when you need to sell directly to avoid app commissions, or when you are expanding services like catering. If you are unsure, you can request a free website audit for our objective assessment.

6. The Process: What You Pay For

This is what our fixed price delivers. For the Landmark ($599) site as an example.

First, we plan the site structure and design in English. You approve it.

Second, we develop the full English site. Every page is built by hand, checked for accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), and made to load quickly on phones.

Third, we write the Korean version from scratch, adapting the content for cultural context, not just translating words. We then build the separate Korean URL site.

Finally, we connect the two language sites with the correct hreflang tags, launch the site on the hosting account we helped you set up, and submit it to search engines.

The price is for this complete process. There are no hidden steps or fees. For more details on how we work, see our web design service page or our restaurant industry page.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Every site we build passes a WCAG 2.1 AA check before launch. This helps customers with disabilities use your site. It is a standard part of our build, not an extra cost.

Choosing a website agency means trusting their process and their numbers. We publish ours because refusing to say what something costs is what our market is tired of. For the complete list, see our pricing page. For examples of our work, you can look at our case studies.