DineKit: The Free Restaurant Platform We Built for WordPress
Menus, UK allergen labelling, QR ordering, table bookings, commission-free ordering, card payments and a full POS — free, fast and built by Web Level Up. Live on WordPress.org.
One Free Plugin, the Whole Front of House
DineKit is our free WordPress plugin for restaurants, cafés and pubs — and it's now live on WordPress.org. It began as a beautiful drag-and-drop menu builder with UK allergen labelling and printable QR table cards. Today it runs the whole front of house: table bookings, commission-free ordering, card payments, events and pre-orders, a guest CRM, staff rotas and a full point of sale — all on your own website, with nothing to pay per cover, per order or per month.
We built it the way we build everything: fast, bloat-free and engineered properly. No WooCommerce required, no external accounts, no jQuery, no lock-in. Your menu — and your customer data — lives in your WordPress site, owned by you. This is the kind of real software we build.
Live and Free on WordPress.org
Install DineKit from your WordPress dashboard in a click. Explore the full product, a live demo and step-by-step docs on its own site, dinekit.co.uk — and browse the source on GitHub. Current version 1.2.11.
A Whole Restaurant, Run From WordPress — Free
Menu Builder
Menus, sections and dishes with photos, badges and multiple prices. Six templates, drag-and-drop, autosave.
UK Allergen Labelling
All 14 regulated allergens pre-loaded with icons, tooltips and a printable matrix. Natasha's Law ready.
QR Ordering
Print-ready QR table cards and A4 posters. Diners scan to view your live menu — or order right at the table.
Table Bookings
A drag-and-drop floor plan with joinable tables, live availability, waitlist, deposits and a booking diary. Commission-free.
Commission-Free Ordering
Eat-in, collection and delivery from your own site, with dish customisations and printable kitchen tickets. Keep 100%.
Card Payments
Take payment with your own Stripe account — booking deposits and orders, Apple Pay and Google Pay. No cut to us.
Full POS
A mobile order pad with split bills, cash and card, tips and end-of-day cash-up — the till, on your own website.
Staff & Guest CRM
Staff logins with roles and an audit log, weekly rotas, plus a guest CRM that remembers regulars and their allergies.
SEO Structured Data
Menu, dish and opening-hours schema baked in, so Google and AI assistants can actually read your menu.
UK Allergen Labelling Built In, Not Bolted On
Since Natasha's Law, allergen information stopped being optional for UK food businesses. DineKit ships with the 14 UK regulated allergens pre-loaded, each with its own icon, tooltips for diners, and a printable allergen matrix for your wall or your inspector. Tag a dish once and it's labelled everywhere: on the page, in the legend, on the matrix.
Dietary labels come built in too: vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, halal and your own. Diners can even filter your live menu to show only what they can eat, and hide what they can't.
QR Menus Without the Monthly Subscription
The QR menu industry quietly turned a picture of a menu into a £20-a-month subscription. DineKit generates print-ready QR table cards, A6 cards and A4 posters, straight from your WordPress admin, pointing at your own live menu page. Update a price and every QR code on every table is already up to date.
No external QR service, no per-scan fees, no commission. Scans are tagged so you can see the traffic in your analytics.
A Menu Search Engines Can Actually Read
Most restaurant menus are PDFs or images that Google can't read. DineKit renders your menu as fast, clean HTML with schema.org structured data for the menu, every dish and your opening hours, the same markup search engines and AI assistants use to answer 'where can I eat near me' questions.
It's the kind of technical SEO other plugins sell as a premium add-on. DineKit ships it free, because we're an SEO agency and we couldn't bring ourselves to leave it out.
Why Free? What's the Catch?
There isn't one. DineKit is free because it's how we introduce ourselves. We're Web Level Up, a Cheltenham web agency, and we build commercial WordPress software for a living. Some restaurants will use DineKit forever and never pay us a penny, and that's fine. Some will want it installed, styled and looked after, or a whole website built around it, and that's where we come in.
The plugin will always be free and will never hold your menu hostage. If you uninstall it, your data stays yours.
Want DineKit Set Up for You?
DineKit is free forever, and plenty of restaurants happily set it up themselves. If you'd rather not, we'll do it for you: install and configure the plugin, load your menu, tag every allergen, apply your brand colours, wire up bookings, ordering and card payments, and print your QR cards ready for the tables.
We can also build a complete, fast website around it. We're Web Level Up, a Cheltenham web and software agency, and DineKit is our own product — so nobody knows it better. Call 07734 221392 or book a free consultation.
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