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Restaurant software for Cork: website, bookings and online orders

Your website, bookings, online orders, Google reviews, email and stock in one account and one monthly bill. Made for a food city with a student year, a festival calendar and visitors who arrive by sea as well as by air.

From €49.99/month VAT included. No commission from us on bookings or orders, no lock-in.

How we work with Cork restaurants

Where we are
A software studio in Benalmádena, Spain, serving Ireland remotely and in English.
Setup
By video call: we build your website, load your menu and train your team on screen.
Support
In English, by email and WhatsApp. Spain is one hour ahead of Ireland all year round.
Commitment
Month to month, no lock-in and no commission from us on bookings or orders.

Cork

Running a restaurant in Cork

Ireland’s second city, and a food city

About 222,000 people live in Cork city and suburbs (Census 2022). Food is part of how the city sees itself: the covered English Market has been trading in the city centre since 1788, and Kinsale to the south and Ballymaloe in East Cork are names that bring diners from all over the country.

Where the trade is

The city centre sits on an island between two channels of the River Lee, with restaurants and bars along Oliver Plunkett Street, Princes Street and MacCurtain Street in the Victorian Quarter. Suburbs like Douglas, Blackrock and Ballincollig carry the family and takeaway trade.

A year with peaks you can see coming

University College Cork and Munster Technological University fill the city in term time. The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival takes over the October bank holiday weekend, Cork Midsummer Festival runs in June, Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosts GAA games and concerts, and cruise ships call at Cobh through the season.

Weekday lunch from big employers

Large employers around the city and harbour, Apple’s European headquarters at Hollyhill among them, keep weekday lunch and collection orders steady outside the tourist months.

What that means for your set-up

  • Reservations. Bookings straight from your own website for jazz weekend and cruise days, with an optional card deposit and no commission per cover.
  • Online ordering. Collection for the office lunch and the student crowd, from your own site, without paying a marketplace on every order.
  • Stock & recipes. Recipe costing that follows your suppliers’ prices, so a dish built on local produce still makes its margin.

Everything your restaurant runs on, in one account

All prices per month, VAT included. Month to month, no lock-in.

Website

€49.99 VAT included · per month

A custom website for your restaurant, with your menu, local SEO, hosting and updates included. Everything else plugs into it.

Reservations

+€9.99 VAT included · per month, on top of the website

Table bookings on your own site, with optional card deposits. No commission per cover, and the guest data stays yours.

Online ordering

+€19.99 VAT included · per month, on top of the website

Collection and delivery orders from your own site, paid into your own Stripe account. No commission from us per order.

Reviews

€29.99 VAT included · per month on its own · €19.99 with the website

Collects guest ratings by QR and email, sends high ratings straight to your Google page (low ones are asked privately first, then also offered the link) and drafts replies for you to approve.

Professional email

+€9.99 VAT included · per month, on top of the website

Email on your own domain, set up with the website.

Stock & recipes

+€19.99 VAT included · per month, on top of Online ordering

Recipe costing and stock that goes down as you sell, so you know the margin of every dish.

Website packages

What you get Per month, VAT included
Website €49.99
Website + Reservations €59.98
Website + Online ordering €69.98
Website + Reservations + Online ordering €79.97

All prices include Spanish VAT (21%).

The Irish rules your set-up has to follow

The same in Cork as anywhere in Ireland. Each one links to the official source.

VAT on food and drink

Since 1 July 2026 food and drink served as part of a restaurant, catering or hot takeaway service is charged at 9%. Alcohol and soft drinks stay at 23%, some takeaway items go at 13.5% and cold takeaway food at 0%.

With Bouzon Digital: Every product carries its own VAT rate, decimals included, so 13.5% is a rate like any other.

Source: Revenue: VAT on restaurant and catering services

Revenue and your till

If you use a till, Revenue expects every sale kept electronically for six years, each with a unique sequential number, date, time and amount, together with the Z reports and a record of any change to the set-up.

With Bouzon Digital: In Ireland you keep the till you already use: your website, bookings and online orders run alongside it.

Source: Revenue: cash register records

Data protection and cookies

Guest data falls under the GDPR and the Data Protection Commission. The DPC’s cookie guidance asks for consent before analytics, with “reject” as easy to find as “accept”.

With Bouzon Digital: The website we build for you comes with privacy, cookie and terms pages and a cookie banner that follows that guidance.

Source: DPC: guidance on cookies

Allergens in writing

For food that is not prepacked, the 14 allergens have to be given in writing, and for orders taken online, before the customer completes the order.

With Bouzon Digital: We build your menu with the allergens of each dish written out, where guests read it before they book or order.

Source: FSAI: allergen information for non-prepacked food

Tips and service charges

Since December 2022 a restaurant has to display how it shares tips and service charges, on the premises and on its website, and card tips have to be passed on to staff.

With Bouzon Digital: Your website comes with a tips and service-charge notice page that you fill in with your own policy.

Source: WRC: tips and gratuities

How the alternatives charge

Read from each provider’s own public page on 21 Oct 2026. We compare how they charge, not their figures.

OpenTable

Reservations

  • A monthly subscription by plan, plus a fee for every cover that arrives through the OpenTable network.
  • A 12-month contract that renews automatically.

Bouzon Digital: Website + Reservations is €59.98/month, with no fee per cover and no contract.

Source: opentable.ie/restaurant-solutions/plans

ResDiary

Reservations

  • Monthly plans by tier and an onboarding fee to start.
  • A percentage on the deposits and payments taken through its system.

Bouzon Digital: Website + Reservations is €59.98/month with setup by video call, and deposits go into your own Stripe account with no commission from us.

Source: resdiary.com/pricing-eur

Flipdish

Website and online ordering

  • A monthly fee per location for the website and ordering plan.
  • Transaction fees on orders that its pricing page mentions without publishing a figure.

Bouzon Digital: Website + Online ordering is €69.98/month with no commission from us per order; card payments go through your own Stripe account at Stripe’s standard fees.

Source: flipdish.com/ie/pricing-online-ordering

Questions from Cork restaurants

How do you work with restaurants in Cork?
Bouzon Digital is a software studio based in Benalmádena, Spain, and we work with Cork restaurants remotely: setup and training by video call, support in English by email and WhatsApp. Spain is one hour ahead of Ireland all year round.
Can my website show the local producers on my menu?
Yes. Your website is built for you, not from a template, so the menu can name your suppliers and show the allergens of each dish. You can edit the menu yourself whenever it changes.
Can I take bookings for the Jazz Festival weekend before it opens?
Yes. Reservations open on your own website for whatever dates you choose, and you can ask for a card deposit when a guest books. The deposit goes into your own Stripe account and we take no commission on it.
Are your prices with or without VAT?
Visitors from Ireland and the rest of the EU see prices per month excl. VAT: if you have an EU VAT number, no Spanish VAT is added. Businesses without an EU VAT number are charged Spanish VAT (21%). Prices for Spain include VAT.
Is there a contract, a setup fee or a commission?
There is no contract: you pay month to month and can cancel whenever you want. Setup and training by video call are part of the service, and we take no commission on bookings or orders.
Do I have to change my till?
No. In Ireland you keep the till you already use: your website, bookings and online orders run alongside it.

Tell us about your project

Free consultations, no obligation.

We are based in Benalmádena (Spain) and work with restaurants across Ireland remotely.