Creating an Additional Restaurant
Run up to five restaurants from one Lekro account, switch between them in a click, and understand what each one keeps separate.
Dashboard only
One Lekro account can hold more than one restaurant: a second branch, a sister brand, a seasonal pop-up. Each is a separate workspace with its own menu, website, orders, staff, and billing. You sign in once and move between them without logging out.
The limit is five, and upgrading doesn’t raise it
An account holds a maximum of five restaurants. This is a fixed platform limit, not a plan feature. A paid subscription gets you more pages and more staff accounts, but not more restaurants.
If you’re at five and try to create another, the form tells you so instead of creating it. The only way to free a slot is to delete a restaurant you’ve finished with, and deletion runs on a 48-hour grace period, so the slot doesn’t come back immediately. Plan around that if you’re rotating seasonal locations.
Creating one
Open the restaurant switcher: click your profile avatar in the top-right, and the switcher sits at the top of the menu that opens. Expand it to see everything you own.
Notice that every restaurant shows its own address underneath the name. That’s a real, separate website: creating a restaurant here creates a whole new public site, not another page on your existing one.
Click Create new restaurant and you get a form that asks for one thing:
Type a name, up to 50 characters, and click Create restaurant. Don’t agonise over it. You can rename the restaurant and give it a custom domain afterwards, so a working name is enough.
What happens next
Creating the restaurant drops you straight into the three-step setup wizard, the same one you saw for your first restaurant. Until you finish it, that new restaurant is the active one.
If you created it by mistake, or you just need to get back to a restaurant that’s already running, the wizard has a Switch workspace control in its top bar. That’s the escape hatch: you don’t have to complete the setup to leave.
Switching between restaurants
Open the switcher the same way and click any restaurant in the list.
The whole dashboard reloads into that workspace. This is a genuine page reload rather than a view change, so give it a second: menu, website, orders, and settings all re-initialise against the restaurant you picked.
The name and logo in the top-right always show which restaurant you’re currently in. Worth a glance before you start editing when you’re running several.
What each restaurant keeps to itself
Almost everything. The restaurants on your account share nothing but the login:
- Menu, website, branding, and domain are per restaurant.
- Orders, reservations, reviews, and messages are per restaurant, so nothing from one branch appears in another.
- Staff are per restaurant. Someone you invite to one branch can’t see the others.
- Billing and plan are per restaurant. This one surprises people: upgrading one restaurant to a paid plan does not upgrade the rest. Each carries its own subscription, and each is on the free plan until you change it.
The practical consequence of that last point is that a second branch starts with the free plan’s two-page limit even if your first restaurant is on a paid tier. Understanding subscription plans covers what each tier includes.