Dinehere vs Squarespace

You retain full ownership of your domain. You can easily point your existing domain from Squarespace (or your registrar) to your new Dinehere website. We provide simple instructions on how to update your DNS settings.

No, Dinehere focuses strictly on presenting your menu, location, and story to get customers through the door. If you need to sell t-shirts, bottled sauces, or ship food nationwide directly through your website, Squarespace is the better choice.

Yes. Dinehere is mobile-first by design. Our AI parses your menu items into structured text that automatically resizes and formats perfectly for any device, eliminating the pinching and zooming often required with PDF uploads or broken formatting.

Not at all. Dinehere is a 'no-code' and 'no-design' solution. You simply upload photos of your food and menu, and our system builds a professional layout for you. Squarespace often requires hours of dragging and dropping to get the look right.

On Squarespace, you must log in to the editor and manually adjust text blocks or re-upload files. With Dinehere, the interface is streamlined specifically for menu management, making price changes or item updates incredibly fast.

Yes. While Dinehere does not have a built-in reservation engine, we include prominent buttons that link directly to your existing third-party reservation platforms, similar to how you would link them on Squarespace.

Squarespace is a SaaS (Software as a Service) business that relies on monthly subscriptions. Dinehere believes restaurants shouldn't rent their website forever. We charge a one-time setup fee that covers 5 years of hosting, saving you thousands in the long run.

Dinehere includes an 'About' and 'Story' section to share your history and philosophy, but it does not have a recurring blog feature. If daily blog posts are a core part of your marketing strategy, Squarespace is the superior option.

Once you have your menu photos ready, you can have your Dinehere site live in about 10-15 minutes. Pointing your domain over usually takes less than an hour to propagate across the internet.