For US restaurants

Online ordering system for restaurants in the US

Delivery apps keep 15% to 30% of an order. Menuthere keeps 0%. Customers order on your own website or QR code, and the only per-order cost is Stripe's card fee of 2.9% + 30¢ when they pay online.

50 orders a month free. 0% commission on every plan. Month to month.

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A restaurant's own ordering website and menu built on Menuthere, open on a phone

What you get

Your own ordering system, in one screen

Menuthere handles the orders you take yourself. It does not send you new customers, and it does not bring DoorDash or Uber Eats orders into the dashboard. Keep the apps if you want to be found there.

Your ordering website
It sits on a menuthere.com link, or on your own domain from Lite. Customers open it in the phone's browser. There is no app to download.
QR codes for tables, bags and bills
Takeaway, delivery and dine-in table ordering are on every plan. See QR table ordering and QR code menus.
A full menu
Unlimited items, photos, sizes and add-ons on every plan. Import your menu from a photo, PDF, Instagram or Google link. Mark items out of stock.
Orders that ring until you accept
Orders land in the dashboard and in the partner app for Android and iPhone. Turn on auto-accept, add unlimited staff logins, and print bills and kitchen tickets from the dashboard's device.
Card payments on your own Stripe
Lite and Pro take cards on your own Stripe account. Every plan takes cash or pay on pickup. The costs are in the table further down.
0% commission on every plan
No per-order fee and no contract. What that term means is in our commission-free guide.

What the apps charge

DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub fees in the US

Each app publishes its plans. Here they are side by side. Each app's own pricing page is the source, and rates change, so check the date.

Marketplace commission for US restaurants by app: delivery plans, pickup rate and card processing
App	Delivery by the app	Pickup	Card processing	Detail
DoorDash	Basic 15%, Plus 25%, Premier 30%	6%. Pickup menu prices must match in-store prices.	Included	DoorDash commission in the US
Uber Eats	Lite 20%, Plus 25% (30% on Uber One orders), Premium 30%. 15% if you deliver yourself.	7%. 10% if pickup prices differ from in-store prices.	Included. The Lite plan in New York City adds 3%.	Uber Eats commission in the US
Grubhub	Basic 15%, Plus 25%, All-access 30% with Grubhub drivers. That is a marketing commission of 5%, 15% or 20% plus delivery from 10%.	The marketing commission only: 5%, 15% or 20%.	Extra. Grubhub's 2024 guide put it at 3.05% + $0.30.	Grubhub commission in the US

DoorDash's plans are for restaurants with 75 or fewer US locations. Uber raised Lite from 15% to 20% and pickup from 6% to 7% on 11 March 2026. Uber Eats also charges $0.99 when a customer redeems one of your offers, takes refunds for missing or wrong items from your payouts, and rents a tablet from $4.99 a week. DoorDash charges error charges of 25% to 100% of the item price plus tax, and its tablet is $6 a week after the trial. Illustrative arithmetic from the published rates, not a result: on a $30 order on a 25% plan the app keeps $7.50. On Grubhub Plus the processing adds about $1.22, about $8.72 in all. The same $30 order paid by card on your own Stripe account costs $1.17 in card fees (2.9% x $30 + $0.30), before any plan price. Rates read on 25 September 2026, and the Uber Eats page again on 1 October 2026.

City caps

Which US cities cap delivery-app fees

A few cities limit what apps can charge restaurants. Most US cities set no cap. Uber Eats lists a 15% Lite rate in cities that regulate delivery fees, among them New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Minneapolis. Ask your city hall if yours is not listed here.

US cities that cap delivery-app fees: the cap and the law it comes from
Place	Cap	Source
New York City	15% for delivery, 5% for basic service and 3% for transactions. An optional enhanced service can add up to 20% more. The four ceilings add up to at most 43% (our arithmetic from the law text). Fee changes need 30 days' notice. A platform must let a restaurant put its own menus or coupons in any online order.	Local Law 79 of 2025
San Francisco	15% per order. A platform may charge more if it also offers every covered restaurant a core delivery option at 15% or less. Check whether your restaurant is covered.	Police Code
Seattle	15% for delivery inside city limits. A restaurant can agree to pay more only for services beyond delivery, and a 15% package must always be offered.	Seattle chapter 7.30
Portland, Oregon	15% for delivery and 4% for pickup, from 1 March 2023.	Ordinance 191126
Washington, DC	15% per online order with delivery and 5% where the platform does not deliver, from 10 March 2023.	Fair Meals Delivery Act

A capped 15% is still a cost. After the 2020 caps, DoorDash added "regulatory response fees" of $1 to $2.50 an order for customers in 57 of the 68 capped places NBC News checked (NBC News, 28 March 2021). That is a past report, not a current rate. For how commission works in other places, see what delivery apps charge.

What a direct order costs

What you pay with Menuthere, line by line

The plan price is monthly. Stripe's fee comes on top of each card payment, and Menuthere adds nothing to it.

What Menuthere costs a US restaurant: plans, Stripe card fees, payouts and a worked example
Cost	What you pay	Detail
Commission	0% on every plan	No per-order fee. Month to month, no contract.
Free plan	$0	50 orders a month. After that the menu turns view-only until the 1st or you upgrade. Cash, pay on pickup, your own payment link or bank details. An "Ordering by Menuthere" badge shows on the menu.
Lite plan	$9 a month	Unlimited orders, your own domain, all themes, no badge, Stripe card payments, scheduled orders and pre-orders, delivery areas drawn on a map, coupons. 7-day free trial.
Pro plan	$39 a month	Everything in Lite plus WhatsApp Business API on your own number, loyalty points and your own riders app. Extra outlets are $39 a month each. 7-day free trial. Enterprise is priced per account and adds a branded customer app. See pricing.
Stripe card fee	2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card payment	Plus 0.5% for manually entered cards, 1.5% for international cards and 1% if currency conversion is needed. No setup, monthly or hidden fees. $15 per dispute.
Stripe payouts	Free on the standard schedule	Cards settle in 2 business days once payouts are running. The first payout is typically 7 to 14 days after the first live payment.
How Stripe connects	Your account, your money	You connect your own Stripe account in Settings. Customers pay on Stripe's hosted Checkout page. The money goes from Stripe to your bank and never through Menuthere. Menuthere does not offer Square, PayPal or Venmo checkout.
Example: 100 orders of $30	$126 a month against $750	Illustrative arithmetic, not a forecast. 100 orders of $30 is $3,000. A 25% marketplace plan keeps $750. The same 100 orders paid by card on Stripe cost $117 in card fees, plus $9 for Lite, so $126. The gap is $624. Lite pays for itself when 25% commission on your direct orders would reach $9, which is $36 of orders.
Delivery	You deliver, or hire a courier	Menuthere does not supply drivers and has no Uber Direct or DoorDash Drive booking. Free has basic delivery zones and fees. Lite draws delivery areas on a map with fees by distance. For reference only, Uber Direct starts at $7.99 a delivery.
Who pays Stripe's fee	You do, unless you add a surcharge	Visa's rules let US merchants in most states add a surcharge on credit cards only, never debit or prepaid. It is capped at the lower of your cost or 3%, needs 30 days' notice to your acquirer, and state law applies on top. Menuthere has no card-surcharge setting.

Prices are in US dollars. Stripe's rates were read on 30 September 2026 on stripe.com/pricing.

US rules

US rules that touch your online menu and app contracts

This is a short guide with sources, not legal advice. Check your own contract and your state's rules.

FDA calories (21 CFR 101.11)
The rule applies to a chain of 20 or more locations under the same name with substantially the same menu. FDA's May 2018 guidance (non-binding) says covered chains show calories on online menus where customers can order. A single restaurant or a smaller chain is not covered unless it registers with FDA (Form FDA 3757). Menuthere has no calorie field or compliance check. A chain that needs calories shown can write them into each item's name or description and check placement and type size against the rule, or use a system built for chains.
State allergen notices
California SB 68 (from 1 July 2026) requires a written allergen notice on menu items for food facilities covered by the federal chain rule. Virginia (from 1 July 2026) requires a food allergy notice on menus, online menus included, and a way for customers to state an allergy. Massachusetts requires a set allergy notice on menus, website menus included. Menuthere shows your menu as you write it, so the notice text goes into the menu yourself.
Prices on the apps and on your site
Uber Eats' US terms (2 June 2026) say you may not list an item higher on its app than on a competing app. DoorDash weighs price consistency in visibility and needs matching prices for its 6% pickup rate. New York City bars a platform from making same prices a condition of service. California bars a platform from charging a customer more than the price you posted there. Read your agreement before you price your own site.
Staying on the apps
Uber Eats' US FAQ answers "Can I still use Uber Eats if my restaurant currently uses another delivery platform?" with "Yes." New York City requires platforms to allow your menus and coupons in orders. The Uber US terms we read have no clause on flyers or inserts. Our guide on adding your own ordering link to Google covers a first step.
Customer data
A customer who orders from your Menuthere site is your customer. Their name, phone and history are in your dashboard, and Lite adds a customer list export. Uber Eats lets a customer choose to share name, email and order history, and marketing needs an opt-in. A 2021 New York City data-sharing law was held unconstitutional by the 2nd US Circuit in August 2026, per Reuters. More in who owns the customer data.
Google
A Google Business Profile can carry up to 10 food-ordering links, and one can be marked "Business preferred". Third-party providers must remove their link within 5 business days of a request. Google's ordering help pages mention no fee for this.

Compared

US options for taking your own orders, compared

Every column is filled for every row, or says "not published". Menuthere is our product and sits in the same columns as the rest.

US options for taking your own orders: commission, monthly price, online card fee, what each requires and source
Option	Commission	Monthly price	Online card fee	Requires	Source
Menuthere	0%	Free $0 (50 orders a month), Lite $9, Pro $39	Stripe 2.9% + 30¢ on your own account, from Lite	Nothing else. No POS integration.	Pricing
Square Online	0%	Free $0, Plus $49 per location	3.3% + 30¢ on Free, 2.9% + 30¢ on Plus	A Square account. No lock-in contract.	Square pricing
Toast Online Ordering	0%	An add-on to a Toast plan (Starter Kit from $0, Point of Sale from $69). Add-on price not published.	Not published	Toast POS. Contracts generally run 12 to 36 months (Toast annual report).	Toast pricing
Clover	None extra	Part of a Clover POS and software plan	3.5% + 10¢ online	A Clover POS.	Clover online ordering
DoorDash Online Ordering	0%	Starter $0, Boost $99, Pro $249	3.3% + 30¢ on Starter, 2.9% + 30¢ on Boost and Pro	An active DoorDash store.	Commerce Platform
Uber Eats Webshop	0%	Free	2.5% + $0.29 an order	An Uber Eats marketplace account.	Uber Eats pricing
ChowNow	0%	Launch $229 a month on an annual term or $249 monthly, plus a $119 to $499 setup fee	2.95% + $0.29	Managed onboarding.	ChowNow pricing
Owner.com	Flexible plan: 5% restaurant fee per order. Flat plan: none.	$249 + 5%, or $499 flat. Guests pay a 5% support fee.	Not stated on the pages read	A demo-led sale. Month to month.	Owner.com pricing
Menufy	None on its pricing page. A per-order convenience fee is mentioned in its help centre, amount not published.	$149 on a 12-month term or $179 monthly	2.75% + $0.30	A managed website and marketing service for US restaurants.	Menufy pricing

Figures read on 30 September 2026 (DoorDash and Uber tools between 25 and 30 September). Prices change, so use each link. Where Menuthere is not the fit: you already run Toast, Square or Clover and want orders inside that POS, since Menuthere has no integration with them. You need a tip line at checkout, which Menuthere does not have. You run 20 or more locations under one name and need calorie labelling built in. GloriaFood ends on 30 April 2027, and our GloriaFood alternative page covers a move. For a ranked list, see best online ordering systems in the US.

Set up

Set up your own ordering, step by step

What you do not get: a marketplace of strangers, DoorDash, Uber Eats or Grubhub orders in the dashboard, a Toast, Square or Clover POS integration, a tip line at checkout, US sales tax by state (you set one flat tax percentage), Uber Direct or DoorDash Drive booking, a calorie tool, or a customer app under your own name below Enterprise.

1
Find your restaurant on Google and import the menu
Import from a photo, PDF, Instagram or Google link, then fix prices, photos, sizes and add-ons.
2
Choose takeaway, delivery and dine-in
Set your delivery areas and fees. Basic zones are on Free, and Lite draws areas on a map. If you run a truck or a ghost kitchen, see food trucks and cloud kitchens.
3
Print QR codes
Put them on tables, bags, bills and the window. A second order from the same table joins the open bill. The steps are in how to set up QR table ordering.
4
Choose how customers pay
Take cash and pay on pickup on any plan. Connect your own Stripe account on Lite for card payments.
5
Install the partner app
New orders ring on your phone until you accept. You can also turn on auto-accept and print kitchen tickets.
6
Share your link
Put it first on your Google profile, on bags and on bills, after you check the rules in the US rules section above.

Questions owners ask

Answered, plainly.

There is no single best. It depends on what you already run. If you use Toast, Square or Clover, their built-in ordering keeps orders in your POS. If you want your own ordering website with 0% commission and no monthly fee to start, Menuthere's Free plan has 50 orders a month and Lite ($9) is unlimited. See our ranked list of US systems.

Published delivery plans run 15% to 30%: DoorDash 15, 25 and 30%, Uber Eats 20, 25 and 30%, Grubhub 15, 25 and 30% with its own drivers. Pickup is 5% to 20%, and Grubhub adds card processing. Each app's pricing page is the source. Uber raised its fees on 11 March 2026.

New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Washington, DC cap fees, mostly at 15% for delivery. Portland has a 4% pickup cap, DC has 5% where the app does not deliver, and New York City adds 5%, 3% and optional services. Most US cities have no cap, so ask your city.

Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card payment, plus 0.5% for manually entered cards and 1.5% for international cards. There is no setup or monthly fee, and a dispute costs $15. Menuthere takes nothing on top. The money goes from your Stripe account to your bank.

For their own tools, yes. DoorDash Online Ordering is for restaurants with an active DoorDash store, and Uber Eats Webshop needs an Uber Eats marketplace account. Menuthere needs neither. You can run both side by side, and Uber Eats' FAQ answers "Yes" to using another platform.

No. Orders arrive in the Menuthere dashboard and partner app, and print as bills and kitchen tickets. The only POS integration is Petpooja, which is used in India. Menuthere also has its own basic POS as an add-on. See Toast, Square Online and Clover compared.

Only if your restaurant is part of a chain of 20 or more locations under the same name, or you register with FDA. Then calories must appear on online menus where customers can order. Menuthere has no calorie field, so a covered chain should check that it can show them as the rule requires.

On your own site, yes. The apps have rules of their own. Uber Eats' US terms say you may not list an item higher on its app than on a competing app, and DoorDash weighs price consistency in visibility and in its 6% pickup rate. Read your agreement. More on going direct is on our commission-free ordering page.

Yes. Your menu opens in the phone's browser from a link or QR code. A customer app under your own name is only on Enterprise. The partner app for Android and iPhone is for you, to take orders. See restaurant ordering app.

The menu turns view-only, with no ordering on the menu link or table QR codes, until the 1st of the month or you upgrade. Lite ($9 a month) and Pro ($39) have no order cap, subject to fair use, and both have a 7-day free trial.

You pay it. Visa's rules let US merchants in most states add a surcharge on credit cards only, never debit or prepaid, capped at the lower of your cost or 3%, with 30 days' notice to your acquirer. State law applies on top. Menuthere has no card-surcharge setting.

Menuthere has no tip line at checkout today. For tax you set one flat percentage, and it does not vary by item or address. If you need tips or per-state tax rules built in, check the options in the table above before you choose.

Sources (40) · checked 2026-10-01

Uber Eats US pricing and Webshop · Uber Eats, read 1 October 2026
Uber Eats marketplace fee changes · Uber, effective 11 March 2026
Uber Eats US merchant terms and conditions · Uber, last modified 2 June 2026
Uber Eats US merchant FAQ · Uber Eats, read 30 September 2026
Uber Direct · Uber Eats, read 30 September 2026
DoorDash merchant pricing (US) · DoorDash, read 25 September 2026
DoorDash merchant FAQ (archived copy) · DoorDash, archived 10 July 2026
DoorDash Commerce Platform (Online Ordering) · DoorDash, read 30 September 2026
Grubhub pricing and fees · Grubhub, updated 7 April 2026
Grubhub prices guide (processing 3.05% + $0.30) · Grubhub, 24 April 2024
Local Law 79 of 2025 (New York City delivery-app fee caps) · City of New York, in effect 30 June 2025, read 30 September 2026
San Francisco Police Code, delivery platform fee cap · City and County of San Francisco, read 25 September 2026
Seattle food delivery platforms fee cap · City of Seattle Consumer Protection Division, December 2022
Portland delivery fee cap (Ordinance 191126) · City of Portland Revenue Division, read 1 October 2026
Fair Meals Delivery Act (D.C. Law 24-292) · Council of the District of Columbia, read 1 October 2026
DoorDash regulatory response fees in capped cities · NBC News, 28 March 2021
California Business and Professions Code 22599.1 (delivery platform pricing) · California Legislative Information, read 30 September 2026
Uber Eats: managing refunds for missing or incorrect orders · Uber, read 25 September 2026
DoorDash: understanding error charges and disputes · DoorDash, updated 25 September 2026
Stripe pricing (United States) · Stripe, read 30 September 2026
Stripe payouts · Stripe, read 30 September 2026
Visa merchant surcharging Q&A · Visa, read 30 September 2026
Menu labeling requirements · U.S. Food and Drug Administration, read 1 October 2026
Menu labeling supplemental guidance for industry · U.S. Food and Drug Administration, May 2018
21 CFR 101.11 (menu labeling) · eCFR, read 30 September 2026
California SB 68 (food allergen notice) · California Legislative Information, approved 13 October 2025
Virginia Code 35.1-14.01 (food allergy notice) · Virginia Law, read 30 September 2026
Food allergen awareness FAQs · Commonwealth of Massachusetts, read 30 September 2026
Massachusetts allergen awareness Q&A (website menus count as menus) · Massachusetts Department of Public Health (hosted by City of Woburn), 19 August 2010
NYC data-sharing law held unconstitutional · Insurance Journal (Reuters), 6 August 2026
Google Business Profile: add or edit links for ordering and booking · Google, read 30 September 2026
Google Business Profile: manage food ordering options · Google, read 30 September 2026
Square pricing · Square, read 30 September 2026
Toast pricing · Toast, updated 20 August 2026
Clover online ordering · Clover, read 26 September 2026
ChowNow pricing · ChowNow, read 30 September 2026
Owner.com pricing · Owner.com, read 30 September 2026
Menufy pricing · Menufy, read 30 September 2026
GloriaFood · GloriaFood (Oracle), read 30 September 2026
Menuthere pricing · Menuthere, 1 October 2026

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Online ordering system for restaurants in the US

Delivery apps keep 15% to 30% of an order. Menuthere keeps 0%. Customers order on your own website or QR code, and the only per-order cost is Stripe's card fee of 2.9% + 30¢ when they pay online.

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App

Delivery by the app

Pickup

Card processing

Detail

DoorDash

Basic 15%, Plus 25%, Premier 30%

6%. Pickup menu prices must match in-store prices.

Included

DoorDash commission in the US

Uber Eats

Lite 20%, Plus 25% (30% on Uber One orders), Premium 30%. 15% if you deliver yourself.

7%. 10% if pickup prices differ from in-store prices.

Included. The Lite plan in New York City adds 3%.

Uber Eats commission in the US

Grubhub

Basic 15%, Plus 25%, All-access 30% with Grubhub drivers. That is a marketing commission of 5%, 15% or 20% plus delivery from 10%.

The marketing commission only: 5%, 15% or 20%.

Extra. Grubhub's 2024 guide put it at 3.05% + $0.30.

Grubhub commission in the US

Place

Cap

Source

New York City

15% for delivery, 5% for basic service and 3% for transactions. An optional enhanced service can add up to 20% more. The four ceilings add up to at most 43% (our arithmetic from the law text). Fee changes need 30 days' notice. A platform must let a restaurant put its own menus or coupons in any online order.

Local Law 79 of 2025

San Francisco

15% per order. A platform may charge more if it also offers every covered restaurant a core delivery option at 15% or less. Check whether your restaurant is covered.

Police Code

Seattle

15% for delivery inside city limits. A restaurant can agree to pay more only for services beyond delivery, and a 15% package must always be offered.

Seattle chapter 7.30

Portland, Oregon

15% for delivery and 4% for pickup, from 1 March 2023.

Ordinance 191126

Washington, DC

15% per online order with delivery and 5% where the platform does not deliver, from 10 March 2023.

Fair Meals Delivery Act

Cost

What you pay

Detail

Commission

0% on every plan

No per-order fee. Month to month, no contract.

Free plan

50 orders a month. After that the menu turns view-only until the 1st or you upgrade. Cash, pay on pickup, your own payment link or bank details. An "Ordering by Menuthere" badge shows on the menu.

Lite plan

$9 a month

Unlimited orders, your own domain, all themes, no badge, Stripe card payments, scheduled orders and pre-orders, delivery areas drawn on a map, coupons. 7-day free trial.

Pro plan

$39 a month

Everything in Lite plus WhatsApp Business API on your own number, loyalty points and your own riders app. Extra outlets are $39 a month each. 7-day free trial. Enterprise is priced per account and adds a branded customer app. See pricing.

Stripe card fee

2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card payment

Plus 0.5% for manually entered cards, 1.5% for international cards and 1% if currency conversion is needed. No setup, monthly or hidden fees. $15 per dispute.

Stripe payouts

Free on the standard schedule

Cards settle in 2 business days once payouts are running. The first payout is typically 7 to 14 days after the first live payment.

How Stripe connects

Your account, your money

You connect your own Stripe account in Settings. Customers pay on Stripe's hosted Checkout page. The money goes from Stripe to your bank and never through Menuthere. Menuthere does not offer Square, PayPal or Venmo checkout.

Example: 100 orders of $30

$126 a month against $750

Illustrative arithmetic, not a forecast. 100 orders of $30 is $3,000. A 25% marketplace plan keeps $750. The same 100 orders paid by card on Stripe cost $117 in card fees, plus $9 for Lite, so $126. The gap is $624. Lite pays for itself when 25% commission on your direct orders would reach $9, which is $36 of orders.

Delivery

You deliver, or hire a courier

Menuthere does not supply drivers and has no Uber Direct or DoorDash Drive booking. Free has basic delivery zones and fees. Lite draws delivery areas on a map with fees by distance. For reference only, Uber Direct starts at $7.99 a delivery.

Who pays Stripe's fee

You do, unless you add a surcharge

Visa's rules let US merchants in most states add a surcharge on credit cards only, never debit or prepaid. It is capped at the lower of your cost or 3%, needs 30 days' notice to your acquirer, and state law applies on top. Menuthere has no card-surcharge setting.