If you're comparing Remi and Wix for your restaurant, the listed prices look lopsided. Wix Core is $17/month. Wix Business is $32. Remi is $69. End of story?
Not really. The Wix listed price is for the platform shell. Once you add the things a restaurant actually needs — a menu people can read, online ordering without per-order fees, ADA compliance, a custom domain that survives the first year discount — the bill stacks up to the same neighborhood as Remi, and often more.
This is the honest comparison. Real numbers. Where each platform actually wins.
TL;DR
- Wix's listed price is for the website shell, not the restaurant. Add Wix Restaurants, online ordering, custom domain renewal, and (often) an accessibility overlay, and the typical bill is $60–100/month.
- Remi is $69/month flat with no add-ons. Menu editor, gallery, custom domain, ADA-compliant themes, no per-order fees on the website.
- Wix is fine for hobbyist or pre-launch sites. Once a restaurant is real, the menu structure and accessibility gaps start costing money.
What you actually pay on Wix
Wix advertises plans starting at $17/month. For a restaurant in 2026, here's the real stack:
| Line item | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Wix Business plan (custom domain, no Wix branding) | $32 | $384 |
| Wix Restaurants — Orders & Reservations | $20 | $240 |
| Custom domain (after first-year free trial ends) | ~$1.25 | $15 |
| Accessibility overlay (UserWay, AccessiBe, etc.) | $49 | $588 |
| Total | ~$102/mo | ~$1,227/yr |
Many Wix restaurants don't pay all four. The ones with no online ordering and a basic site can land at $32–40/month. The ones who try to run a real restaurant on it — with ordering, reservations, accessibility — typically end up at $80–120/month.
Remi: $828/year. Flat. Includes the menu editor, gallery, custom domain, and WCAG 2.2 AA-compliant themes with no overlay.
Menus: real text vs. styled blocks
This is the difference Wix users feel hardest after migrating.
On Wix, your menu lives on a page you edit. You drag a "menu" widget, type dishes, set prices. The data is essentially a styled list.
On Remi, the menu is a structured database. Each dish has a name, description, price, dietary flags (vegan, gluten-free, contains nuts), category, and optional photo. When you change a price, it updates everywhere — homepage previews, the menu page, the structured data Google reads, the print-ready menu export.
What this means in practice:
- Search engines see your menu. Google's rich results for "best Margherita pizza in Austin" can pull dish names and prices from structured data. Wix menus show up as text on a page; Remi menus show up as recognized restaurant menu data.
- Accessibility is automatic. Screen readers read the menu as a structured list, with each section properly labeled. Wix menu widgets vary wildly depending on which template you picked.
- Updates are one-click. Raise the price of a dish and it updates on the menu page, the homepage feature card, and the print export at once.
If your menu changes more than monthly, this difference is the single biggest reason restaurants migrate.
Accessibility: built in vs. bolted on
Wix's official accessibility story in 2026 is the Wix Accessibility Wizard (opens in new context), plus partnerships with overlay vendors like UserWay. The Wizard scans your site for issues. The overlay slaps a widget in the corner.
The problem is what we covered in our ADA piece: overlays don't fix the underlying HTML. They paint over it. Plaintiffs' law firms specifically search for sites running these tools, because they're a signal that the owner knew there was a problem and chose a cosmetic fix.
Real WCAG 2.2 AA compliance has to be in the markup. It has to be in every theme. It has to ship by default.
On Remi, every theme passes WCAG 2.2 AA out of the box. Menu text is readable by screen readers. Forms have proper labels. Color contrast is pre-tested. Keyboard navigation works through the entire booking flow. There is no widget. There is no add-on.
This is not a feature. It is a design constraint. We don't ship a theme that fails.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Wix | Remi |
|---|---|---|
| Listed price | $17–32/mo | $69/mo |
| Real all-in monthly | $60–100+ | $69 |
| Custom domain | First year free, ~$15/yr after | Included |
| Restaurant-specific menu editor | Add-on (Wix Restaurants) | Built in |
| Online reservations | Add-on or third-party | OpenTable / Resy / SevenRooms embed support |
| Online ordering | Add-on, ~$20/mo + fees | Bring your own (no per-order surcharge from Remi) |
| WCAG 2.2 AA compliance | Wizard + overlay (cosmetic) | Built in, every theme |
| Themes designed for restaurants | A handful, mostly generic | 5, all restaurant-specific |
| Menu structured data for SEO | No | Yes (schema.org Menu) |
| Data export | Manual, partial | Full export, anytime |
| Lock-in | High (custom widgets don't transfer) | Low (markdown menu, image library, custom domain are yours) |
Migration path: Wix → Remi
If you're already on Wix and considering a move, here's what migration actually looks like:
- Sign up for Remi. Pick a theme. Custom domain comes with the account.
- Paste your menu. Copy from your Wix menu page (or a doc). Remi's menu importer detects categories, dish names, descriptions, and prices automatically. You'll fix maybe 5–10% of the parsing.
- Upload your photos. Drag the gallery from Wix into Remi. The image editor handles compression and alt text prompts.
- Repoint your domain. If your domain is registered through Wix, transfer it (free). If through GoDaddy or Namecheap, change the DNS to point at Remi's server. About 15 minutes.
- Test on mobile. Walk through the booking flow on your phone. Confirm contact form submissions arrive.
Most owners with content already prepared (menu text, photos) finish migration the same day. The build is quick once your content is ready. The slow part of restaurant websites was never the build — it was getting the menu and photos in shape, and you've already done that on Wix.
Where Wix actually wins
Honest answer: Wix wins for restaurants that aren't really restaurants yet.
If you're testing a concept, doing a pre-launch landing page, or running a one-person pop-up that takes orders by Instagram DM, Wix's $17/month plan is genuinely cheaper, and the limitations don't matter yet. Spending $69/month on a site that won't have content for three months isn't a great trade.
The flip happens when:
- You start taking online orders and the per-order fees pile up
- You change your menu more than once a month
- You get a demand letter or an accessibility complaint
- You realize your guest list, photos, and SEO juice are stuck on Wix's servers
That's when Wix users end up here.
Bottom line
For a restaurant that's actually open, taking orders, and updating its menu, the Wix vs Remi comparison isn't $32 vs $69. It's "a stack of three to five paid add-ons with a cosmetic accessibility widget" vs. "one bill, every feature, ADA built in."
If you're early and lean, Wix is fine. If you're a real restaurant, Remi takes 20 minutes to set up and you stop thinking about your website.