What the delivery apps take, and what stays with you
15% to 30%of each delivery order, by plan. That is the commission the delivery apps publish.The highest published commission is 30%. Type in your own numbers and see what stays with you when your regulars order from you.
The sum
Your numbers. Their published rates.
This is arithmetic on the numbers you type and the prices those companies publish. Nobody publishes what a Las Vegas restaurant sells through the apps: your statement has your number.
Example numbers. Type your own.
Or try one of three examples:
Numbers only, like 5200 or 41.50.
Add the food on an average order, so the orders can be counted.
The apps take, on all of it, in a year
The apps still take, on the orders that stay
The moved orders cost, on your own ordering
What stays with you, in a year
On these numbers, in a year, itcosts more
All four plans, on your numbers, in a year
Plan
The apps take
They still take
Moved orders cost
What stays with you
15%
20%
25%
30%
Three assumptions
The commission is worked on the food, before tax and tip.
A 15 percent tip, all of it to the driver.
A delivery within 5 miles.
On two of the apps, card processing is inside the commission. On your own ordering you pay it: 2.9% plus 30 cents a payment is one processor's published rate. A courier for your own order has a published flat fee: $9.75 within 5 miles on one service, or $7.00 with tipping on; from $7.99 on another. This sum uses $7.00. You choose whether the guest pays the courier. Where each rate was read
What the sum leaves out
A guest who finds you inside an app still orders there.
Nobody can promise you a share. You set it.
A late or wrong order on your own site is yours to put right.
One of the apps charges card processing on top of its commission. This sum does not count that.
If you already take orders on an app's own ordering page for your site, you pay only card fees on those orders already.
Sales tax is not in the card fee here.
The build is a one-time cost, quoted in writing first. It is not in this sum.
Quoted · added on
Online ordering under your name
Priced for your restaurantQuoted
A one-time build, quoted in writing first. Your exact price is in a written scope before you pay anything.
Three sizes, each an example. No restaurant's statement was seen, and nobody can promise the share that moves.
A small one
30 delivery orders a week at $40 of food each, on a 15% plan. One in three moves: 10 orders a week.
The apps take, on all of it: $9,360.00 a year.
The apps still take, on the orders that stay: $6,240.00 a year.
The moved orders cost, on your own ordering: $956.80 a year.
What stays with you: $2,163.20 a year.
If you pay the courier, not the guest: costs $1,367.60 more a year.
A middle one
100 delivery orders a week at $40 of food each, on a 25% plan. 4 in 10 move: 40 orders a week.
The apps take, on all of it: $52,000.00 a year.
The apps still take, on the orders that stay: $31,200.00 a year.
The moved orders cost, on your own ordering: $3,827.20 a year.
What stays with you: $16,972.80 a year.
If you pay the courier, not the guest, what stays with you: $2,849.60 a year.
A busy one
240 delivery orders a week at $40 of food each, on a 30% plan. Half move: 120 orders a week.
The apps take, on all of it: $149,760.00 a year.
The apps still take, on the orders that stay: $74,880.00 a year.
The moved orders cost, on your own ordering: $11,481.60 a year.
What stays with you: $63,398.40 a year.
If you pay the courier, not the guest, what stays with you: $21,028.80 a year.
One moved order of $40.00: with a 15 percent tip and the $7.00 courier fee the card is charged $53.00, and card processing on that is $1.84. When you pay the courier, one moved order costs you $8.63.
Owners ask
How do I get my guests to order from my own site?
Soonest first. Each one is marked: you can do it today with nothing built, or we build it for you.
Today · nothing built
Your Google listing
Put your own ordering link on your Google listing and mark it as the one you prefer. Google lets every restaurant do that. The delivery apps stay on your listing too: you can ask for one to be taken off, and Google gives the app five business days.
Today · nothing built
A code on your own bags, tables and door
A code is a link, and a phone's camera opens it. Print one on your own takeout bags, your table tents and your door, and it opens your own ordering page.
Today · nothing built
Apple Maps
Apple Maps can carry a button to your own page. Apple checks it first, up to three business days.
Built for you · in The Foundation
Your site, on their phone
A guest can add your site to their phone like an app, straight from your site: on an iPhone, Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, the three dots, then Install. No app store, and no download from one. They choose whether to hear from you: their phone asks, they answer, and they can switch it off whenever they like. In The Foundation it tells a guest about their own order.
Built for you · quoted
A list that is yours
Every order on your own site adds to a list that is yours, and you can take it with you as a file. It keeps each person's yes or no, and a guest with no account gets an empty tick box at checkout.
Built for you · quoted
Rewards on your own orders
Rewards, built for you on discounts you control, that count on the orders that come through your own site.
Built for you · quoted
Posts, and a notice to everyone who said yes
Posts for your social pages, written for you, ready to copy and paste, each one carrying your ordering link. And tonight's special, sent as a notice to every guest who said yes to it.
Built for you · quoted
Your own app in the app stores
Your restaurant's own app in Apple's App Store and on Google Play, with your guest's account, their rewards and their order in it. It is the last of the three steps below.
What we build
Three steps, each built on the last
Each is built to order. Your exact price is in a written scope before you pay anything.
Online ordering under your nameYour guests order on your own site, under your own name, for pickup or delivery. A delivery service on your own account carries it, and your guest sees your brand.
It is built on The Foundation, $1,500: a basic register and store your guests can add to their phone.
Regulars, rewards and your own listAccounts for your regulars, rewards you set and change yourself, the list they build, posts written for you, and a notice to every guest who said yes.
Your own app in the app storesYour restaurant's own app in Apple's App Store and on Google Play: your guest's account, their rewards and their order. Built to order, on developer accounts in your restaurant's name.
Apple charges 99 US dollars a year for its developer program and Google charges 25 US dollars once. You pay them, not us.
Apple and Google each review an app before it is listed, and every update after that. We give you our date for handing it in; the day it appears is theirs.
Care covers the upkeep of your own app in the app stores: the updates it needs when Apple or Google change their rules. Without Care, the upkeep of your own app in the app stores is $500 a year.
It is for a restaurant registered as an LLC or a corporation. Without one, your guests still get the app they add from your site, or we guide you through the paperwork as its own quoted step.
The apps bring strangers. One of them says three in ten of its restaurant orders come from first-time customers: its own figure.
A commission also buys something: one app's covers its drivers, its support desk and card processing. On your own site, a late or wrong order is yours to put right.
On an app order, the app keeps the guest. Their terms say so. An order on your own site leaves the guest's name, email and number with you.
Keep the apps for strangers. Move your regulars.
Sources
Every rate and rule on this page was read on that company's own page on October 9, 2026.
DoorDash, merchant pricing: its plans at 15%, 25% and 30% of a delivery order, with card processing inside the commission. merchants.doordash.com/en-us/pricing. Read October 9, 2026.
Grubhub, marketplace pricing: a marketing commission by plan, a delivery fee on top, and card processing not included. get.grubhub.com/products/marketplace/. Read October 9, 2026.