A delivery app has a radius. Chesapeake is 351 square miles. Zayos has no radius at all.
Zayos gives Chesapeake restaurants commission free ordering on their own website, reachable from any borough with no marketplace delivery radius in the way. The restaurant keeps 100% of food revenue and tips and pays a flat $499 to $699 per location each month.
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Which part of Chesapeake are you actually in?
Chesapeake does not have a downtown. It has boroughs, spread from South Norfolk on the Elizabeth River down to the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, with commercial life clustered at Greenbrier, along Battlefield Boulevard and out through Western Branch. A diner in one borough may never see a restaurant in another inside a delivery app.
Plus the surrounding Hampton Roads cities, all covered by one operator plan per location.
Why does sprawl break marketplace economics?
Every part of a delivery marketplace is priced against distance. In a dense city the courier drives eight minutes, the app shows your listing to thousands of households, and the percentage it takes buys you genuine reach. Chesapeake is the opposite shape. It stretches roughly thirty five miles end to end, the population is spread thin across it, and the same percentage buys you a much smaller slice of the map.
Four things change in a market like this, and none of them work in your favor:
- Your listing gets hidden by distance. A Great Bridge kitchen can be invisible to a Western Branch household eight miles away, because the app sorts on drive time, not on how good you are.
- The diner pays more to reach you. Longer trips mean higher delivery and service charges at checkout, which suppresses the order before it ever reaches your kitchen.
- Driver coverage is thinner. Fewer couriers per square mile means longer promised windows and more reassigned orders, on food you cooked and a reputation that is yours.
- The commission does not shrink to match. Base rates still run 15% to 30%, and 25% to 35% blended once delivery, marketing and processing fees stack.
A website has none of those constraints. It is reachable from every borough at once, it shows every item on your menu rather than the ones an algorithm chose to feature, and it lets a customer schedule a pickup for six o clock on their way home down Battlefield Boulevard.
What does pickup first ordering cost on Zayos?
Ninety nine cents to the diner, and nothing to you. Chesapeake is a driving city, so pickup carries a much larger share of orders here than it does in a dense downtown, and pickup is precisely where a marketplace percentage is hardest to justify. Delivery is $2.99 to the diner, dine in is $0, catering is 10%, and the restaurant never pays any of it. You keep 100% of food revenue and 100% of tips.
The plan itself is flat: Operator $499, Operator plus Marketplace $599, Concierge $699, each per location per month, month to month, with no setup fee. Most operators are live in under two weeks and take a first direct order within a week of signing up.
For clarity, because a city page should never imply more than it can prove: Zayos is a product of Zay Revenue Group, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida company. We serve Chesapeake from Florida, we have no Virginia customers, and the only restaurant live and taking orders on Zayos today is Naya Grill in South Florida, where direct ordering keeps more than $48,000 a year that used to leave as commission.
Full pricing breakdown →Chesapeake operator questions.
Are there Chesapeake restaurants on Zayos right now?
Why does a spread out city change the delivery app math?
Does my own ordering site have a delivery radius?
Most of my online orders are pickup. Is that a problem?
What do the apps take, and what does Zayos take?
Can I keep DoorDash and Uber Eats running?
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