Restaurants · Offsite copy · Every month

Your website belongs to your vendor. Keep a copy that belongs to you.

BentoBox, Popmenu, Owner, SpotHopper, and Toast build and host restaurant sites as part of their service. Switch vendors and the site is gone. We save every public page, with your menus, photos, and hours, and email you a private link every month.

First backup in ~1 minNo accountNo vendor login

Inbox, the 1st, 6:02 AM

Dead Simple Backups

Next month's backup of yourrestaurant.com

Saved 6:02 AM. Nothing for you to do. Kept for 12 months, so open it whenever you need it.

pages saved14

screenshots14, full page

images + fonts212 files

total size48.3 MB

since last month1 added, 3 edited

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private link · no zip attachment

Load the page

Find public pages

Save HTML

Take screenshots

Note the template, fonts, and colors

Package the copy

Backup complete

Pages

Back up the whole site, every month

$79/year saves every public page, with screenshots, and emails you a private link on the 1st of each month.

What your website vendor keeps, and what you get to keep

Most restaurant websites are built and hosted by a vendor as part of a bundle with online ordering, reservations, or marketing. At the time of writing, none of the common ones offer a way to download the site:

BentoBox builds and hosts the site with its menu and ordering tools. Leave, and the site comes down with the contract.
Popmenu hosts the site with menus as structured data and its own ordering. The pages exist as long as the subscription does.
Owner builds the site around its ordering system; the two are one product.
SpotHopper includes the website in a marketing package. When the package ends, so does the site.
Toast Websites and Square Online tie the site to the point-of-sale account.

The menu text, the photos you paid a photographer for, the hours, the about page, the press quotes: all of it lives only on the vendor's servers. A monthly copy of every public page, stored with you, means switching vendors is a rebuild from a complete reference instead of a rewrite from memory. Online ordering itself is not copied; that is the vendor's system, not a page.

The month you'll be glad you had it

Three things that happen to restaurant websites.

You switch vendors

Better ordering fees, a new POS, a marketing package that did not pay off. The old vendor takes the website down. Your menus, photos, and pages are in last month's backup, ready for the new site.

The menu or the hours get changed by mistake

A seasonal menu overwrites the year-round one, or someone edits hours before a holiday and never puts them back. Open last month's page and copy the right version.

The account belongs to a former manager or agency

Vendor logins drift with staff. The copy in your inbox needs no login and belongs to the business.

It watches, not just copies.

Four things a zip in a drawer cannot do.

Tells you when the site stops loading

Once a day we load your homepage. If it fails twice, a minute apart, you get one email with your latest backup, and one more when it is back.

Shows what changed

Every backup is compared with the one before: pages added, removed, and edited, listed in the email. You see edits you did not make.

Backs up when you ask

About to redesign, or hand the site to someone? One click on your dashboard makes a fresh copy first. Once a day per site.

Keeps every page as plain text

Next to the HTML and screenshots, a Markdown file per page: headings, paragraphs, links, and image descriptions, ready to paste into whatever comes next.

Your files, not ours

Backups are plain HTML, JPEG, and font files in ordinary folders, with the pages wired to their own images and stylesheets. Double-click and they open in any browser, on any computer, with no software from us. Download the lot whenever you like.

What we can see

We never ask for your vendor's password. We read the public pages a visitor would see, and nothing else: no orders, no customer data, no drafts. You can delete any backup permanently, whenever you want.

Leave whenever

Cancel from one button in your account. No email, no retention call. Full refund inside 30 days, and your backups stay downloadable for another 30 after you go.

Security specifics

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS in transit
Scope: Public pages only, read-only
Access: Private links, 1-hour downloads
Deletion: Permanent, and immediate

One price. One site. Every month.

Start with a free backup you can open today. Keep it going for the price of one client lunch a year.

30-day refundCancel in one click12 months of history

$79/year

≈ $6.58 a month, billed once · 12 months of history kept

First backup starts right after checkout. The next one goes out on the 1st.

Not sure yet? Back up your homepage free first.

Questions people ask before signing up

Short answers. If yours isn't here, email us and a person replies.

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Does this need our vendor login?

No. We read the public pages the way a guest does. There is nothing to log in to and no password stored.

Are menus included?

Menu pages are backed up as pages, with their text and photos, and PDF menus linked from the site are copied too, up to 25 MB per file. Menus that only exist inside an ordering app are not pages, so they are not included.

Is online ordering included?

No. Ordering is the vendor's system, not a page. The backup keeps the pages around it: menus, photos, hours, location, catering, press, and everything a guest can read.

Which vendors does this work with?

Any that publish a normal public website: BentoBox, Popmenu, Owner, SpotHopper, Toast Websites, Square Online, and sites built on Squarespace, Wix, or WordPress. If yours is not on the list, paste the address and the free backup shows what it gets.

Can the new vendor import the backup?

Vendors rebuild sites by hand from what you give them. A folder with every page as HTML, a full-page screenshot of each, and the photos at the largest size the site served is exactly what they ask for.

How long do you keep backups?

Twelve months, and the newest one is never dropped. If you cancel, everything stays downloadable for 30 days after your paid period ends.