Most restaurant website "platforms" are landlords. You pay $200-400 a month, they keep your guest list, and the day you stop paying everything goes dark.
We built Remi because that's a bad deal.
What's broken
Three things, mostly:
- Pricing is theater. $149/mo for a website. $99/mo extra for online ordering. $79/mo for a CRM. Then a $400 setup fee.
- Data is hostage. Your guest emails, your menu, your photos — all on their servers, exportable only when they let you.
- Accessibility is an afterthought. Their themes aren't built for screen readers, and fixing that is left to you — usually with a bolt-on widget that doesn't actually work.
What Remi does instead
One honest deal: if you take online orders, your whole site is free — $0/mo, funded by a $1 diner fee on larger checks. Dine-in only? A flat $99/mo — founding pricing (regular $149/mo), locked in for life when you start now. Either way you get the website, menu editor, gallery, CRM, and custom domain. Accessibility is the default — every theme is built and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA. You own your data. You can export everything. You can leave.
Five themes, one platform
Modern, classic, rustic, playful, bright. Each is designed for a different kind of restaurant — the same way Chez Laurent's classic theme and Benny's playful theme shouldn't share a font, much less a layout.
That's it. That's the post.