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What is DoorDash actually costing you?

Quick answer

Independent restaurants typically lose 25 to 35 percent of every marketplace order to DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub commissions. For a single location doing 3,000 orders a month at a $35 average ticket, that is roughly $48,000 per year per location. Enter your numbers below to see your exact annual exposure and how much Zay-OS would recover.

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DoorDash + Uber Eats marketplace tiers typically run 25-30%; full-service tiers run 30-35%; Grubhub similar. Use 30% if you are not sure.

You're losing
$0
per year
Zay-OS recovers
$0
per year (75% direct shift)
Zay-OS cost
$0
per year (Operator tier)
Net per year
$0
recovered minus Zay-OS cost
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How the math works.

  1. Step 1
    Annual marketplace gross

    monthly orders × marketplace % × average ticket × 12 months = the dollar value of orders flowing through DoorDash + Uber Eats + Grubhub per year.

  2. Step 2
    Commission you give up

    annual marketplace gross × commission rate (typically 30%) = what the apps take off the top, before food or labor.

  3. Step 3
    What Zay-OS recovers

    Realistic recovery assumes 75% of marketplace volume can shift to direct ordering within 6-12 months (QR codes on every bag, customer list growth, repeat-customer incentives). That 75% pays roughly 3% Stripe processing instead of 30% marketplace commission. Recovery = 27% of shifted volume.

  4. Step 4
    Net

    Recovered commission − Zay-OS Operator cost ($499 × 12 = $5,988/year per location). The $2.99 per-order fee is paid by the diner, so it does not factor into operator cost.