Oviedo restaurants pay the most commission in their best months. Zayos is flat.
A percentage takes more from you every time the semester turns your dining room over. Direct ordering costs the same in a packed October week as in a dead July one, and the student who found you on an app becomes a customer you own.
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Zayos is commission-free online ordering for Oviedo, Florida restaurants. Diners order on your own branded site, you keep 100% of food revenue and tips, and DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub still route to one kitchen tablet through Otter. Flat $499 a month per location, no contract.
Why does a percentage hurt a college town kitchen more than anyone else?
Because your year is not flat, and a percentage is not a fee, it is a share. UCF sits a few miles down Alafaya Trail with roughly 70,000 students, and its calendar sets demand for every kitchen from the Alafaya corridor through Oviedo on the Park. Late August the town fills. October and November peak. May and June the base drops out.
A marketplace takes the largest amount of money from you in the exact months you were counting on to carry the slow ones. A flat plan does the opposite. Zayos Operator is $499 a month whether you turned 300 orders or 3,000, so a strong fall funds a quiet summer instead of funding somebody else's driver network.
The arithmetic, with inputs shown, as a model and not a customer result. Say 1,100 of your monthly orders come through the apps at a $17 average ticket, the low ticket and high count shape student demand produces. At a 27% blended rate, meaning the 15% to 30% base commission plus delivery, marketing and processing fees on top, that is $5,049 a month, roughly $60,600 a year from one location. Your own numbers go into the free AI report or the commission calculator.
How do you get the August wave onto your own site?
Not by asking anyone to change their habits. Students are the most app-conditioned diners in the country and no sign in your window will argue them out of it. You win on two things they do respond to: what the checkout total says, and whether your offer reaches their phone.
On checkout, your Zayos site charges the diner a flat $0.99 for pickup and $2.99 for delivery, nothing for dine-in, while a marketplace basket stacks a service fee, a delivery fee and sometimes a small order fee on the same food. On a $17 order that gap is not subtle. On reach, the difference is permanent: the marketplaces keep the diner contact, so every August you rent the same customers back through their promotions, while on Zayos the phone number and email belong to your restaurant. The list you built through the fall is a list you can text before move-in week, and that first order of the new semester costs you nothing to win.
How do you serve the student side and the family side from one kitchen?
Oviedo is two markets sharing a zip code. There is the Alafaya and Research Park side, which is late, cheap, fast and app-native. Then there is the Mitchell Hammock and Red Bug Lake side: families, youth sports weekends and the town center at Oviedo on the Park, ordering earlier and bigger on a weekly rhythm.
A marketplace flattens both into one anonymous stream, because to a marketplace they are all its customers. Direct ordering keeps them separate. Text the family list about a Sunday deal and never send it to a student who only orders after ten. Run per channel hours so a short late menu exists on your own site after the apps go dark. One kitchen, one Otter tablet, two conversations. If you run pizza, wings or subs, which is most of what feeds a campus edge, the pizzeria playbook covers the menu structure and the reorder loop.
Is Zayos live in Oviedo today?
No. Zayos is built in Fort Lauderdale by Zay Revenue Group. The restaurant live and taking orders on it today is Naya Grill, in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach, which keeps $48k+/yr in commissions that used to leave the business. We have no customers in Oviedo, Orlando or anywhere else in Central Florida. We are a Fort Lauderdale company that serves this market, and that is the whole claim.
Operators here are onboarding now, most live in under two weeks, first direct order usually inside a week. Start with what is Zayos or how it works.
What does Zayos cost in Oviedo?
Operator is $499 a month. Operator + Marketplace, which ingests DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub through Otter, is $599. Concierge is $699 and includes up to 5 virtual brands per kitchen, which is how a campus-edge kitchen runs a second late night concept without a second lease. Per location, per month, no setup fee, no contract.
Full pricing breakdown →Where around Oviedo does this cover?
Plus Casselberry, Altamonte Springs, Sanford, Winter Park and east Orange County. One plan covers any location.
What else do Oviedo owners ask?
My customers are UCF students who only use DoorDash. Does a direct site even change anything?
What happens to my software cost in the summer when the students leave?
How do I reach the August move-in wave if I do not own the customer?
Can I run late night hours on my own site without opening on every app?
Half my business is families on the Mitchell Hammock side, not students. Does this fit them?
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