Your customers will drive half an hour for your food. Zayos makes sure they can order first.
Zayos gives a Houston halal restaurant its own ordering site, so the Sugar Land or Katy family that drives 25 minutes for your zabihah can order before they leave. Flat $499 to $699 a month per location, no commission, and you keep 100 percent of food revenue.
Free. About 60 seconds. No card.
Why does a Houston halal restaurant lose orders from people who already trust it?
Because a marketplace decides who sees you by measuring a straight line, and your customer is not shopping by straight line. Houston covers more than 600 square miles inside the city limits alone, and the halal trade sits in a wide arc from Hillcroft and Bissonnet through Alief and Sharpstown out into Fort Bend County, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the country. Families move out to Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland and Missouri City, and they keep the restaurant they trust.
Halal trust travels farther than a delivery radius. A household that has checked your certification will drive past a dozen closer restaurants, and the app that ranks by distance will never show you to them.
Where is the demand a distance ranked app cannot show you?
Typical off peak drive times toward a Southwest Houston halal kitchen, and what a marketplace does with each one.
| Where the household is | Typical drive | What the app does with it |
|---|---|---|
| Alief and Sharpstown | 5 to 15 minutes | In range, and ranked against every other restaurant inside the same circle |
| Sugar Land, Stafford and Missouri City | 20 to 30 minutes on US 59 | Usually outside the delivery zone, so you never appear at all |
| Pearland and Silverlake | 25 to 35 minutes | Usually outside the delivery zone |
| Katy and Cinco Ranch | 30 to 40 minutes on I 10 | Outside the delivery zone |
| Spring and The Woodlands | 45 minutes or more | Outside the delivery zone, catering only |
Off peak freeway estimates for orientation, not a delivery promise. On your own Zayos site pickup has no radius at all, and you draw the delivery zone yourself.
What does the commission cost at 400 online orders a month?
Model one Houston halal kitchen at 400 online orders a month and a $28 ticket, a shawarma plate or a biryani with a drink. That is $11,200 of volume. At 28 percent, the midpoint of the 25 to 35 percent blended cost once delivery, in app marketing and card processing stack, the apps take about $3,136 a month, roughly $37,632 a year. Operator plus Marketplace is $599 a month flat, $7,188 a year, at any order count, and it does not bend during Ramadan either.
Modeled, not a customer result. Run your own numbers with the free AI report, or read what DoorDash charges restaurants and what Uber Eats charges.
How do you put sourcing on a menu that a marketplace flattens?
For a large share of Houston halal diners, sourcing is not a detail on the menu. It is the reason they chose the restaurant.
A marketplace listing has a name, a photo and a price, and nowhere to put that. Houston also makes it broader than one community, because the same kitchens serve Arab, Pakistani, Indian, Nigerian and Somali families alongside a large non Muslim crowd that came for the food and stayed. A storefront you control leads with the cooking and keeps the certification visible as a quality signal, rather than forcing one message on everybody.
How does Ramadan work when your customers are 25 minutes away?
Iftar has to be a scheduled window, not a queue
A whole day of orders lands on one minute. Close the window about 30 minutes before maghrib, batch the prep so everything drops ready at sundown, and let the diner pick a slot. A Missouri City family has to be on US 59 before the adhan, so a moving estimate is useless and a fixed time is worth driving for. Then it starts again after taraweeh and runs toward suhoor, when you flip to a short late night menu without asking anyone.
Eid and the family event calendar
Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha are catering weeks, and in Fort Bend they sit alongside a steady book of walima, aqiqah and graduation orders for 100 to 300 guests. Marketplaces have no real product at that size, which is why almost all of it still moves by text message, with no record and no deposit.
What is included, and what does the diner pay?
Operator is $499 a month per location: your branded site on your own domain, the full menu with every modifier, the catering builder, pickup and delivery with a radius you draw, the kitchen tablet, and a customer list you own. Operator plus Marketplace is $599 and adds Otter ingestion, so app tickets print in the same feed. Concierge is $699 with up to five virtual brands per kitchen.
All per location, month to month, no setup fee, no commission at any volume. The diner pays a flat fee at checkout, $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, nothing dine in, 10 percent catering, and you keep 100 percent of food revenue and tips. See pricing, the fee breakdown and how it works. Most operators are live in under 2 weeks.
Who is running Zayos right now?
One restaurant is live and taking orders today: Naya Grill, in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach, which keeps $48k+/yr that used to leave as marketplace commission at roughly 3,000 orders a month. Seven more storefronts are built and open ordering at their own launch dates.
There is no Houston halal restaurant on the platform yet. We serve Texas from South Florida, and we would rather say so than invent a reference.
Questions Houston halal owners ask.
Why would a halal restaurant need its own site when the apps already deliver?
How do I show my halal certification and zabihah sourcing on the storefront?
How does iftar ordering work when customers are 25 minutes away?
Can it handle a 200 person walima or Eid catering order?
Do you have a Houston halal restaurant on the platform I can call?
Find out what Ramadan is really costing you.
The free report runs your own order count and average ticket against a flat monthly fee, and shows the gap over a year.