For Costa Rica restaurants & cafés

Take orders direct. Keep what the apps take.

Bilingual websites for Costa Rica restaurants, cafés and bars. Delivery apps like Uber Eats and Rappi take 15-30% of every order, and reservation platforms charge per cover. Your own site - online ordering, reservations, WhatsApp - takes about 4.5% with local card processing, and the customer is yours. Live in 14 days.

Why go direct

Five reasons it pays off.

No abstract brand talk. Commission, the customers you already feed, and orders that come straight to you.

01

Keep the 15-30% the delivery apps take

Uber Eats runs 20-30% per order depending on your tier; Rappi sits in the same band. Your own site with local card processing costs about 4.5%. On every order a regular places direct instead of through an app, you keep most of that gap.

$100 order, direct vs app: roughly $20 kept that used to go to the platform
02

Take reservations without per-cover fees

Reservation platforms charge a fee per seated cover plus a monthly subscription. A booking widget on your own site costs you nothing per cover and feeds straight into your floor plan or calendar.

Direct reservations: no per-cover fee · Platforms: per-cover + monthly
03

Found on Google + AI search, not just an app or Instagram

A delivery-app listing and an Instagram page do not rank on Google or surface in AI assistants. A proper bilingual site does. Travelers searching "best breakfast Sámara" or asking an AI where to eat tonight can actually find you - and order direct.

04

The customer is yours, not the app's

The delivery app keeps the relationship - you never get the email and cannot bring them back. On your own site you capture the order, the contact, and permission to invite them in again. That list is an asset no app will hand you.

05

Your menu, prices and photos - always current

Change a price, swap a dish, post tonight's special - yourself, in seconds, in both languages, through the self-serve CMS. No agency, no waiting, no paying per edit.

The math

What each order channel costs you.

Same $100,000 of orders, three ways to take them. The only thing that changes is how much of it you keep.

Delivery apps
Uber Eats / Rappi
15-30%
per order (Uber Eats 20-30% in 2026)
  • Great for first-time discovery
  • They keep the customer
  • Payouts on their schedule
  • Same cut on your regulars
- $25,000 gone
Ordering software
Third-party builders
~5%
monthly fee + card processing on top
  • Cheaper than the apps
  • But a monthly fee that never stops
  • Often their own service fees too
  • You rent it, you never own it
- $5,000 + monthly
Your own site
Pulpería + ONVO Pay
4.5%
international cards · 1.5% local cards
  • No commission, no booking fee
  • Ordering + reservations in one place
  • Money to your account at checkout
  • Bilingual, yours forever
$4,500 in card fees
$20k+
A kitchen doing $100,000 a year in delivery orders keeps roughly $20,000 a year by moving its regulars to its own site instead of the apps.

Illustration, not a quote. Your real number depends on how much of your volume is delivery vs dine-in, how much moves to direct, and your local vs international card mix. We run your actual numbers with you before you commit to anything.

One honest note: the apps are still useful for discovery - someone who has never heard of you. The win is taking the regulars and repeat orders, the customers who already love your food, off a 15-30% channel and onto your own. You keep the apps; you just stop paying them on the orders you already earned.

What we build

A site shaped to how you actually serve.

Menu & online ordering

  • Full menu & prices
  • Pickup & delivery orders
  • Pay online or on WhatsApp
  • Photos that sell the food
  • Edit it yourself, anytime

Reservations & events

  • Table booking widget
  • Private events & groups
  • Deposit on big bookings
  • Into your calendar / floor plan
  • No per-cover fee

Cafés & bars

  • Hours, story & people
  • Featured drinks & specials
  • Loyalty / newsletter signup
  • Events & live music pages
  • Reviews & press

Multi-location

  • A page per branch
  • Own hours, menu, map
  • One brand, many spots
  • Central or per-site ordering
  • Bilingual EN/ES
Integrations

If it has an API, we connect to it.

Your POS, reservation system, delivery handoff, payment processor - whatever you already run. If the platform opens an API, we build a clean integration so orders and bookings flow into your existing systems and your kitchen and floor keep working the way they do today. No rip-and-replace, no double entry.

Toast Square OpenTable Resy Uber Eats Rappi ONVO Pay Stripe + your stack

Don't see yours? If it has an open API, we can almost certainly connect it. Tell us what you run and we will confirm before we build.

Our work

Built here, by hand, in two languages.

Restaurant builds are underway now. In the meantime, walk through the live bilingual sites we have shipped for Costa Rican rentals and local businesses - the same craft and the same engine, shaped to a menu and a dining room.

See the sites we have built
Honest pricing

From $799. Scoped to you.

Where we start
The basic site
from $799
one-time · live in ~14 days

A fast, bilingual site that gets you found and makes the food look as good as it tastes - the foundation ordering and reservations plug into.

  • Bilingual EN/ES out of the box
  • Menu, photos & your story
  • WhatsApp inquiry button
  • Standard SEO - sitemap, schema, indexed on Google
  • Self-serve CMS - edit it yourself
  • Mobile-perfect & fast
  • Google Business Profile help
  • The site is yours, forever
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Added on top, scoped to your kitchen

The basic site is the starting point. What gets added depends on how you serve - we quote it once we understand your setup and what your POS or delivery system supports.

  • +Online ordering - pickup & delivery, pay on your site
  • +Reservations - table booking + deposits, no per-cover fee
  • +POS / delivery integration - Toast, Square, OpenTable, Resy and similar
  • +On-site payments & Premium SEO - ONVO card + SINPE, keyword research, AI search

Optional care from $29/month - hosting, payment upkeep, SEO articles, dev requests. Add aerial drone footage $249 for cinematic food and venue shots. Cancel anytime.

Questions

The honest answers.

Do I have to leave Uber Eats or Rappi?

No. Keep the apps for discovery if they work for you. The point is to give regulars and repeat customers a place to order directly - your own site at about 4.5% instead of 15-30%. Over time more of your orders move direct and the app commission shrinks as a share of revenue. Many restaurants slip a QR code into app deliveries to nudge the next order to their own site.

How does it work with my POS, reservation or delivery system?

We connect to what you already run - POS like Toast or Square, reservations like OpenTable or Resy, delivery handoff, and your payment processor - through their APIs. Orders and bookings flow into your existing systems so your kitchen and floor keep working the way they do today. No rip-and-replace.

How do payments work, and what is ONVO?

ONVO Pay is a Costa Rican payment processor. We integrate it so customers pay on your site and the money lands in your account - we never touch it. Rates are about 4.5% on international cards and 1.5% on local cards. That replaces a 15-30% delivery-app commission on every order you move to direct.

Can I take orders and reservations on the same site?

Yes. Online ordering for pickup and delivery, table reservations, and a WhatsApp button can all live on one bilingual site - alongside your menu, prices, photos and story. You edit it yourself anytime through the self-serve CMS.

When do I actually get paid?

On a direct order or deposit, the money hits your account when the customer pays - not on the app's payout schedule. For a kitchen managing cash flow daily, that is a real difference, not just a fee saving.

How much does it cost and how long does it take?

Basic bilingual sites start at $799 and go live in about 14 days. Online ordering, reservations, POS or delivery integration, and on-site ONVO payments are scoped per project, since it depends on the integration type and what your systems support. The site is yours forever; optional Care plans from $29/month cover hosting and upkeep.

Get in touch

Tell us about your restaurant.

WhatsApp is fastest - text or voice notes, whatever is easiest for you. We answer within an hour. No bots, no platform. A real person who lives here, will listen first, and run your real numbers before pitching anything. A cafecito beats a quote any day.

lars@pulperiastudio.com · Sámara, Costa Rica