Halal online ordering in Bay Ridge, run on Zayos.
Zayos gives a Bay Ridge halal restaurant its own ordering site, so you keep 100% of food revenue instead of paying a marketplace 15% to 30% base commission. Diners pay $0.99 pickup or $2.99 delivery. Plans are $499 to $699 per location, month to month, with no setup fee.
What does a halal diner in Bay Ridge ask before they order?
Not "is it halal." They ask which butcher, whether the meat is zabihah, whether the chicken and the falafel share a fryer, and whether the kitchen closes for Jumu’ah. On 5th Avenue between roughly 65th Street and 86th Street, where Yemeni, Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian kitchens sit on the same blocks as the halal butchers that supply them, those answers are common knowledge. Customers know your supplier by name, and that is why they walk past four other doors to reach yours.
A marketplace listing cannot carry any of it. Halal is a checkbox in their system, the same single bit for a kitchen that buys from a certified local butcher and a kitchen that ticked the box.
- One "Halal" tag. A single bit of data, identical for every kitchen that ticked the box.
- Dish names in English only, spelled the one way their search box indexed.
- A delivery window that is an estimate, printed as a range.
- A customer list you cannot see, export, email or call.
- Your butcher and certifier named on the page, where a customer reads them before adding to cart.
- Arabic and English side by side, so kibbeh, kibbe and kubba all reach the same dish.
- A scheduled pickup minute the customer picks and the kitchen commits to.
- Your customer book. Names, order history, phone numbers, yours.
What does a marketplace cut actually cost a 5th Avenue kitchen?
Marketplace commission runs 15% to 30% base. Once delivery, in-app promotion and card processing stack on top, the blended real cost lands between 25% and 35% of the ticket. Model the low end: a shop running 1,500 orders a month at a $28 average check hands over about $10,500 a month, roughly $126,000 a year, before a single case of chicken is paid for. Those are the inputs, so swap in your own.
Zayos takes no cut of the food. The restaurant keeps 100% of food revenue and 100% of tips. The only per order charge is a service fee the diner pays at checkout: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, nothing dine in, 10% catering. Bay Ridge rent does not leave room for a 30% line item. That is the whole argument. Detail on what DoorDash charges restaurants and the calculator.
What breaks during Ramadan, and what fixes it?
Ramadan is not a slow month in Bay Ridge. It is a month on a different clock, with three fixed points.
1. Suhoor, before dawn
The late kitchens and the Yemeni coffee houses carry the pre dawn meal, in a window most reporting files as yesterday.
2. Jumu’ah, Friday midday
Lunch compresses around the prayer instead of spreading over two hours. Same covers, half the runway.
3. Iftar, at sunset
The neighborhood eats inside the same half hour, on a time published to the minute. The hardest service of the year.
An app that says "arriving 7:45 to 8:15" is guessing. Iftar is a clock time, published to the minute, and a family that needs food on the table at 8:04 cannot use an estimate. So they call you, and you run a phone operation next to a tablet operation on the busiest night of your year.
On your own site the order is placed three days out for a stated minute, you cap how many you accept per fifteen minute slot, and Eid catering opens as its own menu without touching the daily one. See catering ordering and halal ordering.
Are you a New York company?
No. Zay Revenue Group is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida company and Zayos is its product. There is no Brooklyn office and we are not going to imply one. We build, launch and support the system remotely.
The restaurant live and taking orders on Zayos today is Naya Grill, in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach, Florida. It keeps $48k+ per year that used to go to commissions, at roughly 3,000 orders a month. Several more storefronts are built and open ordering at launch. No Bay Ridge restaurant is live yet, and being the first one on 5th Avenue is a real conversation, not a testimonial we invented.
How much is Zayos, and who pays the fee?
Three plans, per location, month to month, no setup fee. Operator is $499. Operator plus Marketplace is $599 and pulls your DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub tickets into the same kitchen tablet through Otter, the order aggregator, so the line reads one screen instead of four. Concierge is $699 and includes up to five virtual brands per kitchen.
Keep the apps for people who have never heard of you. Move the families who have ordered from you for a decade onto your own site, where they cost nothing per order. Most operators are live in under two weeks. Detail on pricing and how it works.
Questions Bay Ridge owners ask.
Can I show my halal certificate and name my butcher on my own ordering site?
Can a customer schedule an iftar order for an exact time?
What does Zayos cost a Bay Ridge restaurant per month?
Do I have to leave DoorDash and Uber Eats to use Zayos?
Do you have a Bay Ridge restaurant live on Zayos today?
See what 5th Avenue is paying the apps.
The free AI report runs your restaurant’s real numbers in about 60 seconds. No card, no call required.