Restaurants — Northern Virginia

Your restaurant. Your orders. No commission.

A done-for-you direct ordering platform for your restaurant — menu, loyalty, and catering, run and grown for you, in one place. No marketplace commission: you keep every order, minus standard card processing. Built on Square's APIs — not on Square yet? We manage the switch with you. Your guest data stays yours — exportable any time.

Why this is different

Built, hosted, and run for you.

A restaurant's website is more than a brochure — it's the menu, the hours, the specials, the catering inquiry pipeline. We build a custom site for your restaurant, host and run it on our infrastructure, and connect it to the Square account you already pay for, so the menu stays in sync with your own POS. You never maintain anything, and your content exports anytime.

Connected to your POS

Menu, modifiers, hours, and specials pulled directly from the POS you already use — Square today. Update the POS, and the website reflects it.

Custom design

No restaurant-builder template. Designed for your restaurant, not a category.

Your data stays yours

Your menu lives in your own Square account, and your site content exports anytime. We host and run the site; you're never locked in.

Northern Virginia focus

We're NoVA-based and only take restaurant work in NoVA right now. Local time zone, local taste, in-person possible if needed.

The plans

A direct ordering platform, priced as a flat monthly.

Three plans, all built on Square’s APIs — your menu, your customers, your data. Nothing for you to maintain. Setup is waived on annual.

Core

Get online and take direct orders — your menu on a custom site, on the Square you already use.

$399/mo

+ $499 one-time setup · waived on annual · 2 months free

Built on Square's APIs
  • Custom-designed responsive website
  • Direct ordering on your own site — no marketplace commission; you keep the order minus standard card processing
  • Direct card payments + Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay (Square Web Payments)
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Plus

Most common

Turn first-time diners into regulars — loyalty, catering orders, and automated email & text that brings them back.

$599/mo

+ $499 one-time setup · waived on annual · 2 months free

Pays for itself at ~$2,400/mo of marketplace order volume

Works with your Square
  • Everything in Core
  • Loyalty / rewards program — repeat customers earn automatically
  • Catering ordering flow, separate from regular orders
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Pro

The platform runs and grows itself — monthly marketing and menu ops handled for you, with an AI phone line joining when it ships.

$899/mo

+ $499 one-time setup · waived on annual · 2 months free

Works with your Square
  • Everything in Plus
  • Your restaurant's own branded mobile app — iOS first, in development; included when it ships
  • AI phone assistant (in development — included when it ships): answers, shares hours + menu info, takes callbacks, hands off to your team
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No fine print

No contracts. No lock-in. No surprises.

Month to month

Cancel anytime. No long-term contracts, no cancellation fees, no exit penalties.

Your data stays yours

Customers, orders, and loyalty history are exportable whenever you ask — they leave with you.

Transparent processing

Card payments run at standard Square rates. We add no markup and take no cut of your orders.

Founding restaurants: the setup fee is waived on annual plans.


Support

Every plan has a published response time.

Core and Plus include business-hours support. Pro adds priority handling plus an emergency line you can call or text if your ordering or payments ever go offline. We publish exactly how fast we respond — and what happens if we miss — before you sign — see how support works


Live demo

Try a live build, right now.

Nova Kitchen is our live reference build for the Connected-Restaurant tier. Place a real order on a Square sandbox — it appears in our Square dashboard within seconds, and a receipt lands in your inbox a moment later. Toggle the Owner Lens pill to see which Square primitive is powering each surface.


Square-native build

Square Orders, Catalog, and Web Payments — integrated, not bolted on.

We build on Square's native APIs — Catalog for your menu, Orders for checkout, Web Payments for card + Apple Pay + Google Pay + Cash App Pay. Your menu updates the moment you edit it in Square, and orders land in the Square dashboard in seconds. On a different system? Tell us at intake — we confirm what's feasible up front; some POS platforms gate API access behind reseller programs. If a connected build isn't possible on your current stack, we'll say so honestly, and we can still build a direct ordering site or talk through whether moving to Square makes sense. We never force the move.


Pilot in development

We're a NoVA-based studio launching our first restaurant partners now. Founding pricing for the first builds — locked in for as long as you stay, with everything run and grown for you from day one.

Groups & franchise

Running two or more locations?

Same plans, location-aware pricing, one conversation. Tell us about your group and we'll shape the rollout together — before you sign anything anywhere.

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What we don't do

Where we hand you back to specialists.

Being honest about scope is part of how we earn trust. The items below are real restaurant needs — we just don't do them.

  • Paid ads (Meta, Google) — refer out
  • Social-media management — refer out
  • Online review responses — restaurant owns its public voice
  • Email or SMS marketing campaigns — refer out
  • Restaurant photography — owner provides photos
  • Reservation management — use OpenTable, Resy, or similar
  • Custom loyalty programs — we wire your existing Square Loyalty; we don't build a replacement
  • Kitchen ticket printers and KDS hardware — Square POS configuration, not website work
  • Ingredient-level Square Inventory decrement per order — separate scope on request

FAQ

Common questions

How fast will I be live?
Most builds go live in about two weeks. Core ships fastest; Plus and Pro add a little time for the extra features (loyalty, catering), but the build window is still measured in weeks, not months.
Do I own my data?
Yes — always. Your content and data are exportable anytime, during your subscription and during the offboarding window if you ever leave. You are never locked in.
What exactly do I own, and what do you keep?
You own your data and content and can take them with you. We own, host, and maintain the software that runs it — that's what keeps it fast, secure, and never out of date, with nothing for you to maintain. You're buying a system that's run for you, not a pile of code to manage.
Why is it a subscription instead of a one-time build?
The monthly covers hosting, running, security, updates, and support — your system stays live and current instead of going stale the day it ships. Setup is one-time; the subscription keeps it healthy.
Can you work with the tools I already use?
Yes. For restaurants we build Square-native today, so your menu stays in sync with the Square account you already pay for — and we integrate other systems where the platform allows. Tell us your stack on the intake call and we'll confirm what's possible.
What if I need changes after launch?
Ongoing changes and care are what the subscription covers — Pro adds priority turnaround and monthly content ops. You won't be quoted a new project every time something needs to move.
Who actually does the work?
SPAO Systems is a focused studio. You work directly with the people who build and run your system — no agency layers, no account managers, no handoffs to junior staff.
Is my site fast, secure, and findable?
Yes — performance, accessibility, and SEO are built in, not bolted on. Sites ship at top performance scores by default.
What does the intake call cover — and is it a sales pitch?
We look at your business and tell you straight what we'd build, what it costs, and the timeline — even if the honest answer is “not yet.” No pressure, no obligation.
Are there hidden fees?
No. Pricing is public: a one-time setup and a flat monthly. What you see is what you pay.

Want to talk?

Free 60-minute intake. We'll talk about your restaurant, your current website situation, and whether a Core, Plus, or Pro plan is the right fit. No pitch deck, no pressure.

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Restaurant ordering platform — Northern Virginia · SPAO Systems