Online ordering for multi-location restaurants: what Zayos recommends at 3, 12 and 40 sites.

Groups willing to standardize the whole estate on one POS. Ordering, registers, reporting, payroll and the ticket path become one system, and a price change or an eighty-six lands the same way at every site. For a growing group, that consistency is worth more than a lower software line, and Toast publishes its POS prices rather than quoting them.

Toast publishes $0/month for the Starter Kit and from $69/month for Point of Sale. Merchant Maverick reports the online ordering module at $75/month per location and processing at 3.09% to 3.69% + $0.15 on the Starter Kit or 2.49% + $0.15 on the flat-rate Point of Sale option (guide updated June 2025, accessed 2026-07-26). Digital ordering sits inside the quote-based Build Your Own plan.

It is a full ecosystem commitment: hardware, processing and vendor lock in one decision. Rolling it into an estate that already runs two or three POS brands is a real project, and the diner-facing ordering page defaults to a toasttab.com address rather than your own domain.

Enterprise brands. Olo says it is trusted by more than 90,000 locations and over 800 restaurant brands, and it names customers including Five Guys, Denny's, P.F. Chang's, Panda Express and Portillo's on its own homepage. Its Ordering, Rails marketplace syndication and Dispatch delivery modules are the reference stack at that scale, and nothing else on this page is built for an estate with its own IT team.

Not published. Olo sells on custom enterprise quotes, typically annual, and no tiers or per-location rates appear anywhere on its site (accessed 2026-07-26). Trackers describe billing as per-location order packages with a fixed per-transaction fee, a percentage, or a hybrid (Orderitto and PricingNow, accessed 2026-07-26).

Everything about it is sized for chains: the sales cycle, the annual contract, the integration lift, the separately priced modules. A three location group is not who Olo is for, and Olo does not pretend otherwise.

The regional operator who wants commission-free direct ordering at every site plus marketplace tickets consolidated onto the same kitchen tablet, without signing a term. Each location is its own flat line, brands and menus are managed centrally, and there is no setup fee, so opening site number four costs one more subscription and nothing else. The largest estate we have built so far is Mr. Smoke at 13 locations on one brand hub, with ordering opening at launch.

Published on /pricing: $499/month Operator, $599/month Operator + Marketplace, $699/month Concierge, per location, month to month, no setup fee. The restaurant pays $0 per order and keeps 100% of food revenue and tips. The diner pays a flat service fee: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, 10% on catering.

We build it, and the honest limit is arithmetic: flat per location multiplies. At 40 sites that is $19,960 to $27,960 a month at list, and a group that size should be negotiating a contract, not paying retail. Naya Grill in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach is the operator live and taking orders today, so a buyer wanting a decade of enterprise references should look at Olo or Toast first.

A group of three to eight sites whose growth problem is demand, not operations. The website, branded app, automated email and text campaigns and loyalty come as one subscription, and running that consistently across a handful of locations is genuinely hard to assemble yourself.

Published on owner.com/pricing, read 2026-07-26: $249/month Flexible plus a 5% restaurant fee per order, or $499/month Flat Rate with no restaurant fee. Guests pay a 5% order support fee on both plans. Month to month, no cancellation fee, migration included. Owner states that special rates are available for multi-location without publishing them.

The multi-location rate is exactly the number a group needs and exactly the one that is not on the page, so you cannot model an eight site rollout without a call. The guest-side 5% is a percentage, which grows with your average ticket.

Groups that want a number they can multiply without a sales call, and that need kiosks as well as ordering. Flipdish prices per site and publishes the figure, which is rarer in this part of the market than it should be, and it offers central management across locations.

Published on flipdish.com/us/pricing, read 2026-07-26: Website from $119/month billed annually ($1,428 a year) or $149 month to month; Website and Mobile App from $199/month annually ($2,388 a year) or $249 month to month; Self-Service Kiosk from $79/month annually or $99 month to month. Prices are per site. Flipdish notes there may be upfront hardware and implementation costs.

The published figures are starting points, commission and per-order terms are not disclosed, and hardware plus implementation is explicitly flagged as extra. Multi-location pricing is described rather than published.

Mid-market groups that want a deeply customized branded app and enterprise loyalty without going all the way to an Olo-scale contract. It is built for per-location configuration and open API work, which is the right shape once a group has its own development resource.

Not published. Sauce reports a starting cost of roughly $400 a month on a flat-fee model with no per-order charges and notes that Lunchbox does not publish pricing publicly (page dated May 6, 2026, accessed 2026-07-26).

You cannot budget a rollout from public information, and the customization that makes it attractive is also what makes implementation a project rather than a signup. Too much platform for a two or three location group.