Your Own Web Address, Included: How yourname.nemenu.app Gives Every Restaurant a Home Online
Before a guest ever sees your menu, they see your web address. It's on the QR code sticker by the door, in the Instagram bio, at the bottom of the receipt, in the Google Business listing. That tiny string of text is the first impression of your brand online — and most digital menu tools give you something that looks like a random support ticket: long, forgettable, clearly not yours.
NEMENU does it differently. Every plan — including the free tier — comes with a branded subdomain in the form of yourname.nemenu.app. It's short, readable, and unmistakably yours.
Check Your Name Right Now
Before we talk about why this matters, try it. Type the name you'd want for your restaurant below and we'll check — live, against the real NEMENU database — whether it's available. If it is, it's waiting for you.
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Why a Good Web Address Matters More Than You Think
A branded subdomain quietly does a lot of heavy lifting for a small restaurant. It's easier to print, easier to say out loud, easier to trust, and it shows up better in search results.
- Guests remember it — bellavista.nemenu.app is a name, not a URL to copy-paste
- Staff can say it on the phone without spelling out a string of numbers
- Google treats it as your brand's home, which helps local SEO for "[restaurant name] menu" searches
- QR codes printed with a readable URL get scanned more often than codes with gibberish underneath
- It looks professional on Instagram, TikTok, and business cards
How the Free Subdomain Works
When you sign up for NEMENU, you pick a name. That name becomes your permanent web address — yourname.nemenu.app — and it's yours for as long as you're on NEMENU, even on the free plan. No extra charge, no DNS setup, no certificates to renew. It's live the moment you finish onboarding.
Behind the scenes, NEMENU handles everything a real website needs:
- HTTPS encryption, with certificates renewed automatically
- Global CDN so your menu loads fast from any country
- SEO-ready metadata, Open Graph images, and structured data
- Mobile optimization out of the box
Subdomain vs Custom Domain: Which One Do You Need?
The free branded subdomain is perfect for most restaurants, especially when you're just getting started. But there's a point — usually when a restaurant starts investing in paid marketing, printed menus, or a second location — where a fully custom domain starts to pay off.
| Free Subdomain | Custom Domain | |
|---|---|---|
| Address | yourname.nemenu.app | yourrestaurant.com |
| Included in plan | Every plan, including free | Pro and Enterprise |
| Setup | Instant, one click | Point DNS — we handle the rest |
| SSL / HTTPS | Included | Included (auto-renewed) |
| Best for | Single restaurants, cafés, bars getting online fast | Established brands, multi-location groups, paid ad campaigns |
Most restaurants launch on the free subdomain and keep it for years. Upgrading later is as simple as pointing your domain's DNS at NEMENU — your menu, QR codes, and analytics all move with you, because NEMENU uses dynamic links that keep working no matter where your domain lives.
You Stay the Owner of Your Custom Domain
If you bring your own domain — yourrestaurant.com, for example — you remain the registered owner at your registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google Domains, whichever you use). NEMENU never takes ownership, never holds your domain hostage, and never charges for the domain itself. All we do is give you a DNS record to point at our servers so requests to your domain resolve to your NEMENU menu.
- You keep the domain registration in your own account — renewals, transfers, and billing stay with you
- If you ever leave NEMENU, simply repoint the DNS and the domain comes with you
- NEMENU handles only the hosting and the SSL certificate — no opaque "managed domain" middleman
- Setup is one CNAME or A record, and we verify it for you automatically
Choosing the Right Subdomain — a Short Checklist
Your subdomain is the one thing that's genuinely hard to change later, because it ends up printed on QR codes, table tents, and business cards. Spend five minutes getting it right:
- Match your brand, not the category — bellavista beats italianrestaurant
- Keep it under 20 characters when possible
- Avoid hyphens if you can — thebluefig is easier than the-blue-fig
- Skip the year or the city — you'll outgrow them
- Say it out loud: if it's awkward on the phone, try again
Changing Your Subdomain Later
If you do need to rename — a rebrand, a typo you only noticed after launch, a new concept — Pro and Enterprise plans let you change your subdomain up to five times. The old URL redirects to the new one automatically for a transition period, so printed QR codes keep working while your new name takes over.
Getting Started
Scroll back up, type your restaurant's name into the checker, and see what comes up. If the green check lights up, that name is waiting for you. Create your NEMENU account and it's yours in under a minute — along with a fully designed digital menu, a branded QR code, and all the tools to run them.
Your restaurant has a story, a style, and a personality. Your web address should reflect that from the very first character. yourname.nemenu.app gets you there on day one — free.
