A Beacons alternative for restaurants
Beacons calls itself an all-in-one creator platform: a link page, a store, email marketing and brand-deal tools in one account. restaurants.Best is a hub for a restaurant and nothing else, free at restaurants.best/yourname. The table below sets the two side by side, using the figures in Beacons' own help centre.
At a glance
| restaurants.Best | Beacons | |
|---|---|---|
| Page address | restaurants.best/yourname, free | beacons.ai/username |
| Custom domain | yourrestaurant.restaurants.best on Pro | From Creator: free for the first year, bought through Beacons or connected by DNS |
| AI page building | Prompt It turns a description into the hub: 10 prompts monthly on Pro, 25 on Premium | AI product descriptions, email subject lines and content generation; no whole-page AI builder found |
| Followers who can be messaged | Super Followers, reached in their super box on Premium | Email list with broadcasts and automations: 50 sends a month free, 500 on Creator, unlimited on Creator Plus |
| Free plan | Starter at no cost, with unlimited links and the Super Follow button | Unlimited links, media kit, store with a 9% fee, 5 link-in-bio pages |
| Paid plans from | €5/month, billed annually | Creator, $10/month or $100/year |
| Built for restaurants | Yes: one hub per restaurant | No: creators, sellers, coaches, brands and agencies |
| Store and payments | Links out to the restaurant's own ordering and booking pages, with no revenue share | Digital products, courses, memberships, appointments and physical products; 0% fee on Creator Plus |
What restaurants.Best does differently
A page about a restaurant, not a creator business
Beacons is organised around selling, media kits and brand outreach. A restaurant hub has a different shape: menu, table booking, delivery, opening hours, events and the socials. restaurants.Best starts from that shape, so a restaurant is not wading through creator tools to find where the menu link goes.
Built from a description
Beacons uses AI to write product descriptions, email subject lines and brand pitches. Prompt It uses it on the page itself: tell it the restaurant serves Sunday roasts, takes bookings online and delivers through two apps, and the hub comes back built. Then ask for darker colours or the menu first. Pro includes 10 prompts a month.
A follow, not a mailing list
Beacons collects emails and phone numbers into an Audience Manager. Super Follow is a tap on the hub, kept at the restaurant's address, and messages sent from the hub on Premium arrive in each follower's super box. Pro adds private rows that unlock when a guest follows, such as a code for the opening week.
For a restaurant, in practice
A chef who also sells a cookbook
A chef with an e-book and online classes might reasonably choose Beacons, whose store takes payment for digital products and courses directly. The restaurant itself can still have its hub on restaurants.Best, linking to the booking page and the chef's store alike, so the dining room keeps an address of its own.
A family restaurant with no online shop
There is nothing to sell on the page, only things to point to: the menu, a phone number, a reservations link and a delivery app. Starter covers that for free at restaurants.best/yourname, with unlimited links, and the Super Follow button gives regulars a way to stay in touch.
A wine bar with a members' evening
Once a month a wine bar holds a tasting for regulars. On Pro the sign-up link sits in a private row that opens only for Super Followers. On Premium the bar writes to all of them from the hub a week before, and new followers receive a welcome automatically.
Questions
- Does Beacons have a free plan?
- Yes. Its help centre lists a Free plan with unlimited links, page customisation, a media kit, a store with a 9% transaction fee and 50 email sends a month. Paid plans start with Creator at $10 a month or $100 a year. restaurants.Best Starter is free with unlimited links and the Super Follow button.
- Can Beacons use my own domain?
- Yes, on paid plans. Creator includes a custom domain free for the first year, either bought through Beacons or connected by DNS. restaurants.Best takes a different route: on Pro the restaurant gets yourrestaurant.restaurants.best, an address on restaurants.best with its name in front.
- Which is better for emailing customers?
- If you want automations, tags, engagement scores and geo-targeted campaigns, Beacons' built-in email marketing does more. Super Follow messages are simpler: on Premium the restaurant writes from its hub, and the message reaches every Super Follower in their super box, plus an automatic welcome for each new follower.
- Does restaurants.Best take a fee on orders?
- No. There are no per-click fees and no revenue share on any plan. The hub links to wherever the restaurant already takes orders or bookings, so payment stays with those services and the money stays with the restaurant.
Facts about other products checked on their official pages on 15 November 2026: Beacons pricing plans, Beacons custom domains, Beacons paid features, Beacons AI features, Beacons platform overview, Beacons email marketing, Beacons products.
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