Squarespace for restaurants
Squarespace for restaurants: a beautiful site, ordering elsewhere
Squarespace makes good-looking restaurant sites, and its menu block shows your dishes. It has no restaurant ordering of its own: Squarespace's restaurant guide points to extensions such as ChowNow, Allday Ordering and Tock, or an Order Now link.
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The short answer
Great for the look. Ordering is an add-on.
Squarespace's strength is design: templates, photography and a menu block that lays out dishes and prices. For a restaurant that wants a beautiful site and takes bookings by phone, it is a fine choice.
Taking orders is another matter. The menu block shows the menu but doesn't take orders. Squarespace's restaurant guide lists Allday Ordering, ChowNow (available in the US and Canada, on Core and higher plans), OpenTable and Tock, which needs its own subscription. Squarespace Commerce can sell food as products, but its pickup option doesn't let customers schedule a time.
So most restaurants on Squarespace use it as the shop window and send the Order Now button somewhere else. That somewhere can be a restaurant ordering page with 0% commission.
- Menu block: shows the menu, no ordering
- Ordering: extensions or an Order Now link
- Commerce pickup: customers can't schedule a time
- Basic plan: 2% fee on store sales; Core and up: 0%
What Squarespace gives a restaurant
From Squarespace's help pages
Read on support.squarespace.com on 20 October 2026.
| Feature | What Squarespace says | What it means for a restaurant |
|---|---|---|
| Menu block | Menus with sections, items and prices; price variants written with a slash | A display menu, not an ordering menu |
| Ordering | Allday Ordering, ChowNow, OpenTable and Tock in the restaurant guide; ChowNow in the US and Canada only, on Core and up | Ordering runs in another company's system |
| Pickup | Free local pickup; "Customers can't schedule a pickup time." | No "ready at 12:30" for takeaway |
| Local delivery | Delivery by ZIP or postal code, with an optional fee | No delivery by distance or drawn zones |
| Options | Up to 6 options and 250 variant combinations per product; up to 4 add-on products | Fine for sizes, tight for a build-your-own dish |
| Printing | Print up to 100 orders at a time; receipts can't be customized | No kitchen tickets or automatic printing |
| Fees on store sales | Basic: 2% transaction fee; Core, Plus and Advanced: none | Plus card processing on every plan |
The restaurant gaps
What a restaurant adds to Squarespace
An ordering system
Squarespace's restaurant guide points to extensions. Squarespace notes that extensions fall outside its own support, so problems go to the extension's maker.
Country limits
ChowNow on Squarespace is available in the US and Canada only. Squarespace Payments works in 15 countries; elsewhere you connect Stripe or PayPal.
Scheduled pickup
Squarespace Commerce pickup has no time slots, so takeaway for a set time needs an ordering extension.
Reservations
Tock's reservations block needs a Tock subscription, with bookings managed in Tock. OpenTable has its own block.
The kitchen
Squarespace prints orders by hand, up to 100 at a time, and its receipts can't be edited. Kitchen tickets come from the ordering system you add.
Allergens
The menu block holds names, descriptions and prices. Allergen labels are something you write in the text.
A worked example
US$10,000 of online food sales in a month: the fees
Squarespace's plan prices are set by country, so this example compares the per-sale fees, which Squarespace publishes. Squarespace Payments' US domestic card rates, read on 20 October 2026.
| Plan | Squarespace transaction fee | Card processing (US domestic) | Fees on US$10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace Basic | 2% = US$200 | 2.9% + US$0.30 | US$200 + card fees |
| Squarespace Core | 0% | 2.9% + US$0.30 | Card fees only |
| Squarespace Plus | 0% | 2.7% + US$0.30 | Card fees only |
| Squarespace Advanced | 0% | 2.5% + US$0.30 | Card fees only |
| Menuthere, any plan | 0% | Your gateway's own rate | Card fees only, plus a flat US$0, US$17 or US$39 a month |
Squarespace plan prices are listed in your currency on its pricing page, which offers savings for paying yearly. An ordering extension such as ChowNow or Tock is priced by its own company on top. Menuthere's yearly billing charges 10 months for 12.
When Squarespace is the better choice
Keep Squarespace for the brand
Your website is your brand: chef's story, photography, press and events. Squarespace's templates do that beautifully, and you don't need to move.
You sell a few products such as gift cards or merch: Squarespace sells digital gift cards, and every plan can sell products.
Use both: keep Squarespace and point its Order Now button at your Menuthere ordering page. It's the same pattern Squarespace's own restaurant guide describes, with 0% commission.
How to start
An Order Now button that just works
- 1
Create the free page
Go to get started and find your restaurant on Google. No card on Free.
- 2
Upload the menu
A photo or PDF of your menu, or the one in your Squarespace menu block. Check what it reads.
- 3
Set order types
Turn on takeaway, delivery zones and table QR ordering.
- 4
Link it on Squarespace
Add a button block on your Squarespace site linking to the ordering page, or a subdomain of your own on Lite.
Questions owners ask
Answered, plainly.
Sources (13) · checked 2026-10-20
- Squarespace pricing · Squarespace, read 20 October 2026
- Choose the right Squarespace plan · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Transaction fees and payment processing rates · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Building a restaurant site · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Menu blocks · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Connecting ChowNow to Squarespace · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Reservations blocks for Tock · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Add local pickup and delivery to your online store · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Add product variants · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Sell add-on products · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Printing orders · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Supported locations for Squarespace Payments · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
- Selling gift cards · Squarespace Help Center, read 20 October 2026
Your Squarespace site, now taking orders
Make an ordering page from your menu and link it from Squarespace. Free to start, 0% commission.
