How Much Does Restaurant SEO Cost?

Lifted Websites lists restaurant SEO at $800 a month for one location, $2,000 for up to three and $3,000 to $10,000 or more for franchises. Sitemile lists $599 a month per location. The Semperi cost guide puts freelancers at $300 to $1,500 a month and agencies at $1,500 to $5,000, with annual contracts typical; one other guide runs to $6,000.

These are listed prices and guide figures as of October 2026. They change, so confirm on each company's own page before you compare.

Local SEO is $350 a month (Starter) or $700 a month (Growth). Google Business Profile management is $150 a month, or $300 for the Growth tier, with a $250 one-time setup. Bundles run $450 (SEO Starter plus profile Starter) to $1,200 a month, and a new restaurant website is $1,500 to $3,000 one time. The prices are published and there are no long-term contracts; you keep the domain, the site and the profile.

The $350 plan covers five target keywords, on-page work for five core pages, ten citations a month, two blog posts a month, monthly ranking and call tracking reports and a quarterly strategy call.

Because every location has its own Google profile, hours, menu, photos, reviews and listings on the food platforms, and the work repeats for each one. A quote that looks cheap for one location can double at the second.

Ask how a second location is priced before you sign. A per-location add-on is the usual surprise on a restaurant SEO invoice.

A written list of what gets done each month. Look for a profile kept current: category, attributes, holiday hours, buttons and photos. Look for a menu Google can read as text, with Restaurant and Menu structured data. Look for name, address, phone and hours matched across Google, Apple Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and the delivery apps. Look for pages for each location, cuisine, catering and private dining, plus a review ask and owner replies. The report should count calls, direction requests and reservations, not rankings.

If a quote says ongoing optimization and nothing else, you cannot tell in month three whether it was delivered.

Review depth. The typical top restaurant listing holds 317 Google reviews in Port St. John, 1,158 in Titusville, 1,697 in Orlando, 2,967 in Tampa and 5,354 in Miami Beach (top 20 listings per city, July 2026). Catching 5,354 is a different job from catching 317.

Every one of the 93 Florida cities we track is heavily contested for restaurants, and in 23 of them all 20 top listings are past 100 reviews. A fee that fits Port St. John will not move Miami Beach.

The apps bring reach and keep a commission on every order plus the diner's details. Your own profile, menu and reviews cost the same whether they bring ten orders or a hundred, and they keep working after you stop paying anyone.

Search your own restaurant's name and count the apps above you. If an app outranks you for your own name, the first fix is free: reserve and order buttons on the profile and an order page on your site. We have no restaurant client result to show yet, so this is the reasoning, not a case study.

The basics, yes: claim the profile, set a specific primary category, fix the hours, add the reserve and order buttons, upload real photos of the food and the room, and reply to every review. That costs time, not money.

Menu structured data, listings cleanup across the food platforms, location and catering pages, site speed and call tracking usually take tools and hours a kitchen does not have in season.

Put them on the same terms: monthly fee, setup fee, length of commitment, price for a second location and what is in the scope. A $599 per-location quote and a $3,000 retainer are not the same product.

Watch for auto-renewing annual contracts, per-location add-ons, reports that are screenshots of free tools and structured data sold as an extra. Then ask what the plan does about the review bar in your city.