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For UK restaurants
The delivery apps' published UK rates run from 13% to 35% of the order, plus VAT. Here is what your own ordering system costs, the rules it must follow, and how Menuthere keeps commission at 0%.
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The short answer
An online ordering system for restaurants in the UK is your own ordering page plus a dashboard. Customers choose takeaway, delivery or dine-in from a link or a table QR code on their phone. You keep the money and the customer details. The menu opens in the phone's browser, so nobody downloads an app.
Your own system charges the card processor and takes no commission. Stripe's standard UK card rate is 1.5% + 20p. The delivery apps publish UK rates of 13% to 35% of the order, plus 20% VAT on the fee. You still have to meet UK rules yourself: allergen information, VAT-inclusive prices and no card surcharge. The sections below give the figures and the sources.
It works as an online takeaway ordering system for a fish and chip shop, a curry house or a pizza shop, and as a restaurant ordering system for table orders. If you are after a food ordering app of your own, see the restaurant ordering app page.
What you pay the apps today
Rates come from each app's own pages. Most owners run their own ordering next to the apps: the apps bring customers and couriers, your own page serves the customers you already have. We found no UK cap on app commission. Full fee lists: Uber Eats UK, Just Eat UK, Deliveroo UK.
| App | When the app delivers | You deliver, or the customer collects | VAT | Joining cost | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uber Eats | 30% (33% on Uber One member orders) | 13% with your own delivery. 13% on pickup. | 20% VAT on top of the fee. The percentage is worked out on the VAT-inclusive item price. | £650 + VAT activation fee (tablet, printer, menu set-up, photos, sticker, training) | Uber Eats UK pricing, read 1 October 2026. Merchant terms. |
| Just Eat | 30% | 14% with your own drivers. No separate collection rate is published. | 20% VAT on the commission. Just Eat's own example: a £20 order at 14% costs £2.80 + 56p VAT. | Its sign-up page says two things. The FAQ says joining is free. The step after sign-up says £295 + VAT taken from your takings. | Just Eat UK partner sign-up, archived 13 July 2026. |
| Deliveroo | Not published. Set in each agreement. The one rate in its terms is 35% for Marketplace+ restaurants while they switch on Deliveroo riders. | Not published. | The fee is a percentage of the order value including VAT, plus 20% VAT on the fee. | Shown during sign-up. Normally a £200 + VAT set-up package (2025 promotion terms). Extra photos from £83 for 15. | Deliveroo partner terms, read 25 September 2026. Promotion terms. |
Illustration, arithmetic only: 300 orders a month at £25 is £7,500 of sales. The fee plus VAT is £2,700 at 30%, £1,260 at 14% and £1,170 at 13%. The same sales on Stripe's standard UK cards cost £172.50 (see the payments section), with no Menuthere commission. This assumes every order is paid by card and ignores your real card mix. A VAT-registered restaurant can usually reclaim the VAT on an app's fee. Deliveroo was bought by DoorDash (completed 2 October 2025) and Just Eat Takeaway.com by Prosus (completed October 2025). Neither announcement mentioned restaurant terms.
Order types
Menuthere calls collection orders Takeaway orders. Customers open your menu in their phone's browser and order without installing anything.
Customers choose Takeaway, order from your page and collect. Pay on pickup is available on every plan.
Customers type their address. The free plan has basic delivery zones and fees. Lite adds fees by distance and delivery areas drawn on a map. Pro adds your own riders app with live tracking. Menuthere does not book Stuart, Uber Direct or Deliveroo Express for you.
Print a QR code for each table. A dashboard setting can check the diner is at the restaurant before an order goes through. A second order from the same table joins the open bill. More in table ordering.
On Lite, customers pick a collection or delivery time. The same plan covers table slot booking.
Orders ring on the partner app (Android and iPhone) until someone accepts them. Auto-accept is available. Print the kitchen ticket and the bill from the dashboard. Staff logins are unlimited.
Sizes and add-ons are on every plan. Import your menu from a photo, a PDF, an Instagram or Google link, or from GloriaFood. Mark items out of stock when the kitchen runs out.
Payments
Online card payments on Menuthere run on your own Stripe account, connected from Lite. Stripe's hosted Checkout page takes the payment and Stripe pays out to your bank. Menuthere takes 0% and adds no per-order fee. On the free plan you take cash, pay on pickup, your own payment link or bank details.
| Card type | Stripe UK rate | Per £25 order | 300 orders of £25 a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard UK cards | 1.5% + 20p | 57.5p | £172.50 |
| Premium UK cards | 2.8% + 20p | 90p | £270.00 |
| EEA cards | 2.5% + 20p | 82.5p | £247.50 |
| International cards | 3.15% + 20p | 98.75p | £296.25 |
Stripe has no setup or monthly fee. It adds 2% if it converts currency and charges £20 per dispute. Its first payout typically comes 7 to 14 days after the first live payment, then UK payouts follow Stripe's schedule (7 calendar days at first, 3 business days by default). Stripe Checkout handles 3D Secure. You may not charge customers extra for paying by card, so build the fee into your menu prices. Source: Stripe UK pricing, read 1 October 2026; Stripe payouts, read 30 September 2026.
UK rules
General information, not legal advice. Check your own position with your local authority, HMRC or your accountant. Sources checked on 1 October 2026.
The 14 are celery, cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphites (above 10 parts per million) and tree nuts. For food sold online, the Food Standards Agency says to give the information before the customer completes the purchase and again at delivery. Writing it down at both stages is advised. The guidance covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland (updated 17 July 2026). Local authorities enforce it. In Menuthere, write the allergens into each dish's description. The dashboard also has 12 allergen tags, but they miss celery, lupin, molluscs and sulphites, and they show only on the Default and Compact menu layouts. Menuthere does not check allergen information for you.
The Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021 cover businesses with 250 or more employees, from 6 April 2022. Online menus and delivery apps are in scope. The menu must say "adults need around 2000 kcal a day". The fixed penalty is £2,500 (DHSC guidance). Most independent restaurants are below the threshold. This page does not cover Scotland or Wales. Menuthere has no calorie field, so a covered business puts calories in the dish name or description.
The Price Marking (Food and Drink Services) Order 2003 says food and drink sold for take-away must show prices including VAT, in sterling. Any additional or minimum charge must be as prominent as the food prices. The CMA's price transparency guidance under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 treats a QR or digital menu as an invitation to purchase. It says mandatory charges such as delivery belong in the headline total. Menuthere shows the price you enter, in £.
Hot takeaway food is standard-rated at 20%. Cold takeaway food is generally zero-rated (GOV.UK VAT Notice 709/1, updated 8 June 2026). Ask your accountant how this applies to your menu and your delivery charge. Menuthere does not do VAT accounting.
You may not charge extra for paying by card or by a PayPal-type service. The ban has applied since 13 January 2018. Tips paid by card generally have to be passed on to staff under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, and its code of practice has applied since 1 October 2024.
Compared
Facts checked on 26 September 2026 from each company's own pages. Plans change, so check the source link before you decide. Where a company does not publish something, the cell says so. For a ranked list, see the ranked list of UK systems.
| System | UK plan cost | Commission | Card or per-order cost | Contract or catch | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menuthere | Free US$0 (50 orders a month). Lite US$9 a month. Pro US$39 a month. Billed in US dollars. | 0% on every plan | Stripe on your own account from Lite, at Stripe's UK rate. No Menuthere fee. | Month to month. "Ordering by Menuthere" badge on Free. Free stops at 50 orders a month until the 1st. No UK courier booking. | Menuthere pricing |
| Storekit | Basic free (pickup and delivery). Grow £99 a month. Pro £199 a month (QR order & pay). The pricing page also shows lower "from" prices of £82 and £166. | 0% (its pricing FAQ) | Its own card rate through storekit Payments. Docs list takeaway at 2.9% + 20p on a 12-month plan or 3.9% + 20p rolling, dine-in at 1.9% + 15p. | Basic, Grow and Pro roll monthly. Its own processor. | storekit.com/pricing. Card rates: Storekit fee docs. Menuthere vs Storekit |
| Square Online | Free plan. Paid plans Plus £20 and Premium £64 a month, billed annually. | 0% | 1.4% + 25p UK cards, 2.5% + 25p non-UK cards | No locked-in contract. Square payments. | Square Online UK plans. Menuthere vs Square Online |
| Flipdish | Website from £49 a month billed annually (£69 monthly). Website & Mobile App from £79. | Not published. Flipdish takes a fee on each order at the rate in your agreement. | Flipdish processes all card payments. You cannot use your own processor. | 12-month term that auto-renews. Leaving early costs the average of the last 6 months' fees for each month left. | Flipdish pricing. Menuthere vs Flipdish |
| Slerp | £125 to £250 a month per site (its pricing page is password-protected). | A platform fee per order, set per restaurant. Not published. | Slerp Pay (Stripe). 1.5% + 20p for most UK cards, per its help centre. | £500 onboarding fee, waived if you go live in 30 days. Typically 12 or 24 months. | slerp.com, 3 September 2026. Menuthere vs Slerp |
| Foodhub for Business | Quote only. Weekly rental plus a one-off setup fee. | Its FAQ says no commission on your own orders. Its order form lists transaction fees. | Datman gateway. Rates not published. | Rolls over every 12 months after the first period. £500 fee if equipment is not returned. | Foodhub online ordering. Menuthere vs Foodhub |
| OrderYOYO | No public price list. Set-up fee. | 6% to 11% of weekly website and app turnover (UK notices, April 2025) | OrderYOYO collects card payments. Customers pay a £0.75 service fee per order. | 12-month minimum, then 3 months' notice. | orderyoyo.com. Menuthere vs OrderYOYO |
| Epos Now | Quote. Hardware bundle from £299 plus a subscription from £54 a month (12 months). | Order & Pay (Yoello): none stated. Online Ordering app: 2.00% + 10p per order. | Epos Now Payments from 0.8% (its page) | 12-month subscription for the discounted bundle. | Epos Now online ordering. Menuthere vs Epos Now |
| Toast (UK) | Software from £80 a month. Online ordering is a paid add-on. | 0% on Toast online ordering | Toast integrated payments. The UK rate is "flat per transaction" and is not published. | Toast's filings say contracts generally run 12 to 36 months. | Toast UK pricing, page dated 9 February 2026. Menuthere vs Toast |
Menuthere also has its own basic POS as an add-on. The table covers the ordering products only.
Getting started
You do not need a developer. You can run your own ordering next to the apps or move off GloriaFood before it closes on 30 April 2027.
Search for it on the homepage, or add it by hand. Your Google listing fills in the store details.
Import from a photo, a PDF, an Instagram link or a Google link. Moving off GloriaFood? Use Import from GloriaFood in the menu screen. Sizes, add-on groups and tags come across, and the import tells you what did not. More in GloriaFood alternative.
Switch on takeaway, delivery and dine-in. Set your hours, delivery radius and delivery fee.
Write all 14 allergens against each dish where they apply. Check that every price includes VAT.
Start with cash or pay on pickup. On Lite, connect your own Stripe account to take cards.
Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how to add your own ordering link). Print the table QR codes (QR table ordering step by step). Orders ring on the partner app.
Menuthere does not pull Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats orders into its dashboard, so those orders stay on the apps' own tablets. Read your agreement before you price differently. Deliveroo's Value Programme compares your Deliveroo prices with your lowest takeaway, dine-in or collection price.
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