What the Wix restaurant menu is
Wix sells websites. For restaurants it adds apps: Wix Restaurants Menus, which is “Free to install,” and Wix Restaurants Orders for pickup, delivery, and dine-in orders, plus table reservations. The menu lives on your Wix site. Wix’s help center, checked on September 29, 2026, puts the line plainly: “You need to upgrade your site to accept online orders and payments. Having said that, you can still display your restaurant menu on your site without a plan.”
The menus app is capable. It builds “as many food menus as you need, for lunch, dinner, drinks, desserts or daily specials,” with several photos per dish, dietary and allergen labels, and translation through Wix Multilingual. It imports a menu from a PDF, image, CSV, or Excel file, though “only text-based menu items are imported from PDF files.” And it prints: pick a template, customize it, and download a PDF.
Gaslamp is only the menu, and it does not need a website. Pick one of eight designs, type your dishes over the sample menu, and you get a hosted menu page, a QR code that never changes, printable table tents, and a print-ready PDF. You edit it from your phone browser. It links from any website, Wix included.
Wix and Gaslamp, side by side
Every Wix fact below comes from wix.com and support.wix.com on September 29, 2026, with US prices as displayed that day. Where Wix does not say, the table says Not listed.
| Row | Wix | Gaslamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan $0. Paid plans, yearly, paid in full: Light $17, Core $29, Business $39, Business Elite $159 a month. Monthly billing: Not listed. A sale was running on some plans. | $19 a month, or $190 a year. |
| Free option | Free plan with a wixsite.com address and Wix branding. Menus app free to install. 30-day money-back guarantee on the first paid upgrade. | 30-day free trial, no card. No free plan. |
| Website | Yes, that is the product. | No. A hosted menu page you link to. |
| Menus | As many as you need; multiple photos per dish; dietary and allergen labels, or your own. | Unlimited on paid plans; one photo per item on the hosted menu; eight dietary tags. |
| Printed menu | Pre-designed templates, customize, download as PDF. Template count: Not listed. | Eight designs, print-ready PDF on paid plans. |
| QR code | A QR code toggle on the printed menu “to scan and order online.” Dine-in QR codes to download and place on tables, through the Orders app. Whether a code stays the same when the menu changes: Not listed. | One code per menu that never changes. Five styles. |
| Printed QR pieces | Not listed. | Table tent (4×6), window sign (letter), counter card (3×5). |
| Ordering | “Commission-free” pickup, delivery, and dine-in ordering; needs a paid plan. | None. |
| POS | Square: syncs menus and orders. Toast: “not possible to integrate.” | None. |
| Languages | Wix Multilingual (not available in the Wix Harmony Editor). | English only. |
| Editing on a phone | The Wix mobile app is offered for managing the site. | The editor runs in your phone browser, with a number keypad for prices. |
Where Wix wins
- You get a whole website. Pages, a domain on paid plans, and the menu inside it. Gaslamp gives you a menu page, not a site.
- Guests can order and book. Commission-free ordering, table reservations, and QR ordering for dine-in, on a paid plan. Gaslamp takes no orders.
- A free way to put a menu online. The menus app is free and can display your menu on a free Wix site. Gaslamp has no free plan.
- More menu features. Several photos per dish, your own labels, translation, imports from CSV and Excel, and a Square POS sync. Gaslamp has one photo per item, eight tags, English only, and no sync.
- Loyalty, coupons, gift cards. Wix lists all three for restaurants. Gaslamp has none.
Where Gaslamp wins
- No website project. If you have a site you like, or a site someone else manages, you do not rebuild it to fix the menu. Set the menu up in Gaslamp and link to it.
- A code built for reading, printed once. Wix’s QR codes are set up for ordering. Gaslamp’s code opens the menu, the same one for every table, and never changes. The table tents come ready to print.
- The design is done. Eight designs made for restaurant menus; you type the dishes, the design sets them. You do not place anything on a page.
- One screen for the whole edit. Change the price, hide the dish, save. The hosted menu and the next PDF both have it. There is no site editor to open.
- One price for the menu. $19 a month, with the QR menu included in the free trial.
Who should pick which
Pick Wix if you are building or rebuilding the restaurant’s website, you want online ordering without a marketplace, or you want table reservations and gift cards in the same place. For that restaurant, putting the menu in the Wix menus app is the sensible choice, and it can print too.
Pick Gaslamp if the website is fine, or is not yours to change, and the menu is what goes out of date: the QR code opens last season’s PDF, the paper menu has pen on it, and the person with the site login is not the person who knows the fish sold out. Gaslamp fixes the menu and nothing else, for $19 a month.
Both at once works too. Many Wix restaurants will link a “Menu” button to their Gaslamp hosted menu and put the Gaslamp code on the tables. The menu then lives in one place, edited from a phone, and the website points to it.
Linking Gaslamp from a Wix site
- Publish your menu in Gaslamp and copy the hosted menu link.
- In your Wix site, point the Menu button or menu page link to that address.
- Print the Gaslamp QR code on table tents. It opens the same menu the website links to.
- From then on, edit the menu in Gaslamp only. The website link never changes.
The same link belongs in your Google Business Profile. Our guide to adding a menu to Google Business Profile explains which option stays right.
What Gaslamp does not do
- No website builder, embed, or custom domain.
- No ordering, payments, reservations, loyalty, or gift cards.
- No POS sync, no translation, no scheduled menus.
- Up to three labeled prices per item, from $1 to $9,999, and 12 sections of 20 items per menu.
The verdict
Wix is a good way to build a restaurant website, and its menu app is a real menu tool for the restaurant already inside Wix. Gaslamp is for the restaurant that needs the menu right in print and behind the QR code without a website project. If you need a site, pick Wix. If you need the menu, pick Gaslamp, and link it from whatever site you have. For more options, see every comparison we have written.