There is no responsible one-number answer
A restaurant website can be a focused information site or a connected product involving reservations, ordering, gift cards, events, multiple locations, and ongoing content. Those are different scopes with different design, engineering, integration, and support responsibilities.
A useful estimate begins after the goals and required journeys are clear. Batistack does not publish a fixed public price because a generic number would hide the decisions that determine the work.
Content and operations shape the scope
Menus change. Hours vary. Photography, dietary information, private events, catering, and location details may need different owners and update rhythms. The website should make those responsibilities simple enough that the public information stays accurate.
The project also changes when the site must connect to an existing reservation or ordering provider. Integration quality, fallback behavior, analytics, and mobile usability matter more than adding a logo and a link.
Local discovery needs a consistent foundation
A restaurant should present its name, address, phone, hours, cuisine, menu, and location consistently. Dedicated location information, useful page titles, crawlable menus, structured data, and a maintained business profile can help search systems understand the restaurant.
No developer can guarantee a ranking. The goal is to remove technical ambiguity and publish information that is genuinely useful when someone is deciding where to eat, reserve, or order.
Accessibility and mobile speed are core requirements
Restaurant decisions often happen on a phone and under time pressure. The menu must be readable without pinching, contact and reservation actions must be easy to use, and key information should load without forcing a visitor through heavy effects or inaccessible files.
Accessibility work includes semantic structure, contrast, keyboard access, descriptive alternatives for meaningful images, and forms that explain errors clearly. These requirements belong in the scope from the beginning.
Ask for a scope you can compare
A proposal should identify the pages, integrations, content responsibilities, analytics, launch checks, ownership, and post-launch support. That makes different approaches easier to compare than a price alone.
Start with the business goal: more qualified reservations, clearer event inquiries, easier menu discovery, or a more credible brand experience. The right website scope follows from that goal.