Orders.co’s AI website builder turns a restaurant’s existing GloriaFood ordering link into a new branded ordering website in under 30 seconds. The restaurant doesn’t share a login, rebuild its menu by hand, or stop taking GloriaFood orders while the new site gets ready.
Building it taught us something we didn’t fully expect. The hardest part of a restaurant website isn’t the design. It’s the menu logic underneath it, the photos most restaurants don’t have, and where the order button sits on the page.
We asked Hrant Ayvazyan, Head of Business Development at Orders.co, the questions GloriaFood restaurants ask us most. His answers are below, along with what each one means for your switch.
The AI Website Builder at a Glance
| Question | Short answer |
| What you provide | Your current GloriaFood ordering link |
| What you don’t provide | Your GloriaFood login or password |
| Time to a first version | Under 30 seconds |
| Time to go live | About two hours after your onboarding call, depending on the menu size |
| What carries over | Categories, items, descriptions, prices, images, and modifier groups |
| What doesn’t carry over | Customer lists, order history, coupons, and loyalty settings |
| Can GloriaFood keep running meanwhile? | Yes. The two sites aren’t connected. |
Why We Built a GloriaFood Website Builder
GloriaFood reaches the full end of service in spring 2027. Oracle, which acquired GloriaFood in 2021, has stopped accepting new restaurants, and every restaurant still on the platform needs a replacement before the shutdown date.
Most of those restaurants don’t have a free week to retype a menu. That’s the problem the builder solves. It reads the menu you already published on GloriaFood and uses it as the starting point for a new restaurant ordering website on Orders.co.
“Restaurant menus are not flat files,” said Arsen Stepanyan, co-founder and CEO of Orders.co. “A pizza can carry size rules, crust choices, topping groups, and quantity limits. A successful migration has to preserve those relationships, not simply copy the words on the page. The AI handles the first pass, and the restaurant reviews the result before it goes live.”
How the GloriaFood Website Builder Works, From Link to Live Site
Q: What happens when a GloriaFood restaurant comes to Orders.co?
Hrant: “The client uses their current GloriaFood website link in our AI website builder. The tool creates the website within seconds. The customer then contacts us to open the business merchant account for the new website and set up a payment method for the monthly payment, if applicable.”
In practice, the switch takes three steps:
- Paste your GloriaFood link. Enter your current GloriaFood ordering link into the AI Website Builder. The AI scans your categories, items, descriptions, prices, images, and modifier structure.
- Review your first version. The builder generates your new ordering website in under 30 seconds.
- Go live with the onboarding team. The Orders.co team opens your merchant account and checks your prices, modifier rules, ordering hours, payment settings, and pickup and delivery options with you. A reviewed and configured site can typically go live within about two hours of that conversation, depending on the size and complexity of your menu.
The review step matters. The AI does the first pass. You confirm the result before a single guest sees it.
What Building the AI Website Builder Taught Us About Restaurant Websites
Automating website creation shows you quickly where restaurant websites go wrong. Most of the problems have nothing to do with technology.
Q: Which parts of a restaurant website are surprisingly hard to automate?
Hrant: “Actual pictures and the menu source.”
AI can structure a menu, lay out the pages, and place the order buttons. It can’t photograph your food. And if the menu it reads from is out of date, the website it builds will be out of date too.
Q: What does the AI need before it can build a useful website?
Hrant: “Image and menu sources for the operating restaurant, plus business operating hours. And an address for restaurants that aren’t operating yet.”
Q: What did you learn from watching owners launch their first direct ordering site?
Hrant: “We learned that customers don’t have a proper picture source for the menu and website. They understood that they needed to dedicate some time to organizing the menu source and having pictures. No confusion.”
That’s good news if you’re planning a switch. The work left after the AI is done is work you already understand: a current menu and real photos of your food. Set aside time for both before you launch, not after.
Q: Can a restaurant website have too much content?
Hrant: “Yes.”
A restaurant website has one main job: getting a hungry guest from the homepage to a finished order. Every extra block of text, slideshow, or page a guest scrolls past stands between them and checkout. Your story and your photos belong on the site. They just shouldn’t push the menu out of reach.
Q: What makes a beautiful restaurant website perform poorly?
Hrant: “Menu and ordering call-to-action buttons not located in the proper places.”
A good-looking site still loses guests who are ready to buy if they have to hunt for the menu. The fix is placement:
- Put an “Order Online” button on every page, not just the homepage. A guest reading your About or Contact page should still see it.
- Keep the path to checkout short. The fewer steps it takes to order, the more orders you get.
- Send website visitors to your own ordering page, not to a delivery app. Delivery apps are useful for helping new guests discover you. Once a guest is already on your website, the order, the customer data, and the margin should stay with you.
Q: Should a pizzeria’s website be built differently from a cafe, a sushi restaurant, or a caterer?
Hrant: “Yes. They need a nested menu structure.”
A cafe menu can work as a simple list of drinks and pastries with a few add-ons. A pizza can’t. One pizza can carry several sizes, crust options, topping groups, extra-topping quantities, minimum and maximum selections, and separate choices for each half. If a platform imports that pizza as a flat list, the toppings become words in a description instead of options a guest can select and pay for.
Orders.co handles this with two menu tools: a basic builder for simple menus and a nested modifier tool for complex ones, like pizzerias, where options and prices change with size. The GloriaFood builder also maps quantity-based modifier logic, so the migrated menu reflects how your guests actually customize their orders.
Questions About Moving Your GloriaFood Account
Q: Do you need my GloriaFood login or access to my account?
Hrant: “No. We only use the publicly visible page.”
The builder reads the same ordering page your guests see. Your GloriaFood account, password, and settings stay in your hands.
Q: Can I keep taking GloriaFood orders while my new site is being built?
Hrant: “Yes. Our site has no direct connection to theirs.”
That separation is also how you protect your orders and prices during the switch. Your GloriaFood site keeps running exactly as it does today until you decide to move. Because the two sites aren’t connected, a price or item change you make in GloriaFood after your new site is built won’t carry over on its own. Make the same change in your Orders.co dashboard, or hold menu changes until you’ve launched.
Q: Will my customer list and order history move to Orders.co?
No. The builder works from your public ordering page, which doesn’t include guest records. If your GloriaFood plan lets you export customer data, export it before the shutdown and send it to the Orders.co team to import.
Questions About Your Menu
Q: Are modifier groups imported with their existing rules?
Hrant: “Mostly created properly. In some cases, they might need a small adjustment.”
This is what the review with the onboarding team is for. Check your most complex items first: build-your-own pizzas, combo meals, and anything with minimum or maximum selections.
Q: Does the builder keep my exact menu structure?
Hrant: “The system optimizes it.”
Rather than copying your GloriaFood layout line for line, the builder organizes your menu for online ordering. You review the structure before launch and can adjust it from your dashboard.
Q: If an item has no photo or description in GloriaFood, does the AI create one?
Hrant: “No. The customer can update the photos later.”
The builder won’t invent a photo of a dish it has never seen. Items arrive as they were on GloriaFood, and you add photos and descriptions from your dashboard when they’re ready.
Q: What happens to items that are sold out or temporarily unavailable?
Hrant: “All items will be available. The customer will have dashboard access to update the availability.”
Before launch, mark anything that’s out of stock or off the menu as unavailable in your dashboard so guests can’t order it.
Q: Do promotions, coupons, and loyalty settings migrate?
Hrant: “No, unless the promotions are created as a category and items. The rest the customer should create from the dashboard.”
If you ran a promotion as its own menu category, such as a lunch specials section, it comes over with the rest of the menu. Coupon codes, discounts, and loyalty rules need to be set up again in Orders.co.
Questions About Your Domain
Q: Can I keep my domain, and who controls it after the switch?
Your domain stays yours. Orders.co gives you a URL for your new ordering website, and you redirect your existing domain to it when you’re ready. Because you control that timing, you can test the new site fully before any guest lands on it.
What Your Restaurant Runs On After the Move
A GloriaFood alternative should replace more than the ordering page. The same Orders.co account that hosts your new site also covers the systems most independent restaurants otherwise piece together from separate tools:
- Menu management: Update prices, items, and availability once, and the change goes out across your ordering channels.
- Point of sale: Use Orders.co as your POS, or run it alongside the one your staff already knows.
- Order consolidation: Direct orders and delivery app orders land in one system instead of a row of tablets.
- AI dispatch: Delivery orders are matched to a driver automatically across networks like DoorDash Drive and Uber Direct, weighing delivery time, driver rating, and price.
- Marketing and loyalty: Built-in SMS and email campaigns and a points-and-rewards program bring guests back to order directly.
- Local visibility: Help showing up when nearby diners search, including direct ordering links on your Google Business Profile.
- Support: A 24/7 team for onboarding, menu changes, and technical questions.
Direct ordering can grow into a major channel. Two Maine Guys Augusta generated $488,554 in website sales through its Orders.co ordering site between October 2023 and June 2026, while still using delivery apps to reach new guests.
“The support we have received has been top-notch from start to finish,” said the team at Prego Pizzeria. “Whether it is the POS, our providers, online ordering, or marketing, there is always someone ready to help, and they always get it right.”
Before You Paste Your Link: A Short Prep Checklist
Hrant’s answers point to a short list of things to have ready. None of them requires technical skills.
- Update your GloriaFood menu first. The builder reads what’s published, so fix old prices and remove retired items before you start.
- Gather real food photos. This is the step that most often slows owners down. Clear phone photos of your best sellers are a good start.
- Confirm your ordering hours. The AI uses them to set up your site.
- List your promotions and coupons. Anything not built as a menu category will need to be recreated.
- Export your customer data from GloriaFood if your plan allows it.
- Keep GloriaFood live until your new site is reviewed and tested.
- Pick a date to redirect your domain to the new site.
Start With the Link You Already Have
Your GloriaFood menu is already online. You don’t need to rebuild it from scratch to keep taking direct orders after the shutdown.
Paste your link into the Orders.co AI Website Builder to see your new ordering website in under 30 seconds, then talk to our team about going live. For a full list of what to move and when, read our GloriaFood migration checklist.
