What does a restaurant website in Las Vegas need?

Does a Las Vegas restaurant need its own website if it’s on Google, Yelp and Instagram?

Yes. A restaurant’s own website is the one place online where the menu, hours and ordering are fully under its control, and most diners look for it. In TouchBistro’s 2024 American Diner Trends Report, a survey of 1,500 US diners fielded in September 2023, 85% said they always or often check a menu online before choosing a restaurant, 80% look at the restaurant’s website, and 64% search for it on Google.

Google, Yelp and Instagram still matter. They’re where people first see a Las Vegas restaurant. But each one shows your business in its own layout, next to other places to eat, with rules that can change. The website is where those profiles send people, and where the facts they show should come from.

Should you take online orders on your own site or through delivery apps?

Take pickup orders on your own website, and use delivery apps for the reach they give you. The difference is the commission. Delivery apps charge a share of every order, while ordering through your own site usually costs a payment processing fee instead.

How the order comes in	What the restaurant pays
DoorDash delivery	15%, 25% or 30% commission, by plan
DoorDash pickup	6% commission
Uber Eats delivery	20%, 25% or 30% marketplace fee, by plan
Uber Eats pickup	7% (10% without validated in-store pricing)
Uber Eats webshop	2.5% plus $0.29 per order
Your own site, through your POS or an ordering tool	Often no commission; a processing fee applies

DoorDash figures are from its merchant pricing page, read October 6, 2026; DoorDash says orders through its own Online Ordering storefront are commission-free but carry a processing fee. Uber Eats figures are from its pricing page, read October 6, 2026; Uber notes that fees vary in some cities. Toast says its online ordering has no commissions, without listing prices.

Diners lean the same way. In the TouchBistro survey (September 2023), 72% said they prefer ordering takeout directly from the restaurant: 29% by phone, 24% on the restaurant’s website and 19% through its own app. A clear “Order pickup” button on your site, linked to the ordering tool your POS already offers, puts more of those orders on the cheaper path.

Should a restaurant menu be a PDF or a real menu page?

A real menu page, written as text, is better than a PDF for almost every restaurant. A PDF menu is hard to read on a phone, slow to load, and hard for search engines and screen readers to make sense of. A text menu page loads fast, zooms cleanly and can be updated in minutes.

There’s a search reason too. Google’s Business Profile help page on menus says Google may transcribe menu information from a restaurant’s own website onto its Business Profile, and owners can opt out. Food and drink businesses can also add a menu by hand, upload a photo or PDF, or add a link to the menu, and changes can take 24 to 48 hours to show on Maps and Search. A clean menu page on your site gives Google something accurate to read. Keeping that profile current is part of local SEO and your Google Business Profile.

Should a restaurant use OpenTable, Resy or its own reservations?

A restaurant that takes reservations should put its booking system on its own website, whichever system it picks, because on OpenTable, at least, a booking that starts on your site costs less than one from the network. A network listing still brings in diners who are looking for somewhere new, which matters in a tourist city like Las Vegas. OpenTable’s plans page (updated June 26, 2026, read October 6, 2026) lists:

OpenTable plan	Monthly	Network bookings	Bookings from your website
Basic	$149	$1.50 per diner	$0.25 per diner, or $49 a month
Core	$299	$1 per diner	Included
Pro	$499	$1 per diner	Included

That’s a reason to put the booking widget on your site, not only a link out. Resy and Tock are the other common choices; compare their current pricing directly with each company. A small place that mostly takes walk-ins may only need a phone number and a note about wait times.

Should a Las Vegas restaurant website mention its health grade?

A restaurant website doesn’t need to show its health grade, but diners can look it up, so the site should never say anything the grade card contradicts. The Southern Nevada Health District explains its grade cards this way: an A means 0 to 10 demerits on the last inspection; a B means 11 to 20 demerits, or the same critical or major violation on consecutive inspections; a C means 21 to 40 demerits, the same repeat rule, or more than 10 demerits on a B re-inspection. The district’s inspection search is public, and results post about five business days after an inspection.

The practical point is to keep your site honest and current. An “about us” page that promises a spotless kitchen reads badly next to a public C. This is a summary of the district’s own pages, not legal advice; check the details with the health district.

Does a bar website need an age gate?

Nevada law doesn’t say a bar’s website must have an age gate. NRS chapter 202 makes it a misdemeanor to sell or furnish alcohol to anyone under 21, which is about the sale, not the web page. A bar that wants to sell alcohol online, for pickup or delivery, has more rules to follow, and those are worth checking with a lawyer before you build it. This is a summary, not legal advice.

What does a restaurant website cost?

A restaurant website costs $10 to $100 a month on a do-it-yourself builder, $20 to $500 a month on a restaurant website platform, and $3,000 to $20,000 or more for a custom site, according to Untappd for Business’s restaurant website cost guide (February 6, 2025). In Las Vegas, Marketing by Magnet’s 2026 rates put a freelancer at $1,800 to $5,500 and an agency at $4,000 to $12,000; the page has no publication date, and we read it on October 1, 2026.

Online ordering and reservations usually come from your POS or booking provider, with their own fees, so the website connects to them rather than rebuilding them. There’s more on what moves the price in our guide to what a website costs in Las Vegas. With Well Coded Solutions, every project starts with a free 30-minute call and a written plan, and you get a fixed quote before any work starts.

What should a restaurant or bar website include?

A restaurant or bar website should answer the questions diners ask before they come in:

• A menu page in text, with prices, updated when the menu changes
• Hours, including holiday and late-night hours, and happy hour if you have one
• Address, a map link, and parking or casino-entrance directions
• A phone number you can tap to call
• An “Order pickup” button linked to your own ordering tool
• Reservations, through a widget on the page, if you take them
• Photos of the food, the room and the bar that match what people will see
• Private events and large parties, with a simple inquiry form
• Allergy and dietary notes, written plainly
• Your business details in the format Google reads, so search matches your profile
• A site that works on a phone first, and with a keyboard and a screen reader

How does Well Coded build restaurant websites?

Well Coded Solutions builds restaurant and bar websites the same way it builds every site. We start with a written plan: what the site has to do, which ordering and reservation tools it connects to, and what’s on each page. You get a fixed quote before work starts. While we build, you see a preview every week. Before launch, we test the site on phones and with a keyboard and a screen reader.

We work with restaurants and bars in Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin and North Las Vegas. There’s more about how a project runs on our page about small business web design in Las Vegas. To talk about your restaurant, tell us about your business and we’ll reply with a clear next step.