Nobody discovers a pizzeria twice. Zayos stops you paying a finder's fee every Friday.
For restaurant owners: this is online ordering software, not a restaurant directory.
Zayos gives a Tampa pizzeria commission free ordering on its own domain for a flat $399, $499 or $599 a month per location. There is no percentage of any ticket. The diner pays $0.99 pickup or $0.99 delivery, and the restaurant keeps 100 percent of food revenue, and 100 percent of tips on pickup and dine in. On delivery the tip goes to the driver.
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Why is a pizzeria the most expensive kind of restaurant to run through a delivery app?
Not because the ticket is small. Because the customer comes back. A sushi place might see a household four times a year and a pizzeria sees the same household four times a month, and the marketplaces charge full commission on visit forty as happily as on visit one. Their fee is priced as customer acquisition, but a pizzeria acquires almost nobody after the first year in a neighborhood.
A commission is a finder's fee, and a pizzeria pays it over and over for a customer who was found years ago.
Tampa makes that worse than most markets, because the growth is in households rather than in tourists. Riverview, Brandon, Wesley Chapel, Apollo Beach and the rest of the eastern Hillsborough build out are full of new families who pick one pizza place and keep it. That is the best customer in the restaurant business, and routing them through DoorDash for the next ten years is the single most expensive habit an owner can keep.
How do the four options charge for the same month of orders?
One modeled Tampa pizzeria: 250 online orders a month at a $34 average ticket, which is $8,500 of online volume. A large pie, wings and a two liter. Same month, four different cost shapes.
| Option | Cost shape | This month | Who owns the diner |
|---|---|---|---|
| The delivery apps 15 to 30 percent base commission, 25 to 35 percent blended once delivery, in app marketing and processing stack. Modeled here at 28 percent, the midpoint of the blended range. | Percentage of every ticket | ~$2,380 about $28,560 a year | The app owns the diner |
| Slice Slice lists an Online Membership at $39 a month plus $3.00 per order, or a Family Membership at $399 a month plus $2.00 per order with a $1,000 implementation fee, and 2.90% + $0.30 card processing. Pizza only, and it does not bring the delivery apps onto one tablet. | Monthly membership plus a fee on every order | $39 + $3.00 an order or $399 + $2.00 an order with its register | Diner is a Slice app user |
| Toast Digital Storefront Toast lists its Point of Sale plan from $69 a month. Online ordering is an add-on with no price shown on its pricing page, and no card processing rate is listed there, so the monthly total comes in a quote. | POS plan plus an ordering add-on plus processing | Quoted the ordering add-on has no listed price | You own the diner |
| Zayos Operator + Tablet Your own domain, menu with modifiers, delivery radius you set, one kitchen tablet, and Otter ingestion so app tickets land in the same feed. The diner pays $0.99 pickup or $0.99 delivery at checkout. You keep 100 percent of food revenue, and 100 percent of tips on pickup and dine in. On delivery the tip goes to the driver. | Flat monthly fee, no commission | $499 (Operator + Tablet) $5,988 a year, at any order count | You own the diner |
The delivery app row and the Zayos row are modeled from the order count and ticket size above, not a customer result. The Slice and Toast rows state what each company lists on its own pricing page and are not modeled: a per order plan depends on your own order count, and Toast shows no price for online ordering. More on Zayos versus Slice. The marketplace row uses 28 percent, the midpoint of the 25 to 35 percent blended range. Run it on your own numbers with the free AI report.
Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Slice pricing; Toast pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
If I take delivery back, how do I stop the twelve mile order I cannot make money on?
By drawing the radius yourself. On your own Zayos site you set how far you deliver and the site refuses addresses outside it before the diner ever reaches checkout, so no driver leaves the shop on a run that loses money. That control is worth more in Tampa than in a flat grid city, because the bay is in the middle of the metro. A five mile radius from Davis Islands and a five mile radius from Westchase describe completely different drives, and anything that crosses the Howard Frankland or the Gandy at 6pm is not a fifteen minute delivery no matter what a map says.
A pizzeria does not need a bigger delivery zone, it needs a delivery zone where the pizza is still hot on arrival.
What happens on the weeks Tampa orders three times its normal pizza?
Tampa Bay has more of those weeks than most metros, and they are the ones that decide your year.
Game nights
The Buccaneers fill Raymond James Stadium about nine times a season and the Lightning play more than forty home dates at Amalie Arena. Neither of those is a restaurant crowd for most pizzerias, it is a delivery crowd, because the households not at the game are ordering in around a kickoff. That spike arrives inside a 45 minute window and then stops. Timed pickup and scheduled orders let people commit before the window instead of during it, which is the difference between a full oven and a stack of tickets nobody can promise a time on.
Named storm weeks
Hurricane season runs June through November, and Tampa Bay learned in 2024 with Helene and then Milton how fast a normal week turns into a closure. The pattern for a pizzeria is consistent: a hard surge two days before landfall while people stock up and stop cooking, a full stop during the storm, then a second surge afterward from households with no power and a freezer they cannot open. Marketplace delivery gets suspended on the platform's schedule and driver supply thins out before that. Your own site does not, so you decide whether to run pickup only, shorten the menu to what the coolers can carry, or shut off ordering entirely. The change is live the moment you make it.
School and team season
Hillsborough County runs one of the largest school districts in the country, and team dinners, banquets and end of season parties are a real revenue line for a neighborhood pizzeria between August and May. Those are catering orders, not delivery orders, and they carry a 10 percent fee paid by the guest rather than a marketplace percentage paid by you.
What is included, and what does the diner pay?
Operator is $399 a month per location: your branded ordering site on your own domain, the full menu with crust, size, half and half and topping modifiers, pickup and delivery with a radius you set, and a customer list that belongs to you. Operator + Tablet is $499 and adds the kitchen tablet plus Otter ingestion so DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub print in the same feed. Concierge is $599 and includes up to five virtual brands out of one kitchen.
All three are per location, month to month, no setup fee, no commission at any volume. The diner pays a flat service fee at checkout, $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, nothing on dine in and 10 percent on catering, and the restaurant keeps 100 percent of food revenue, and 100 percent of tips on pickup and dine in. On delivery the tip goes to the driver. See the pricing page, the fee breakdown, and how it works for the build timeline.
Who is running Zayos right now?
Restaurants are live and taking orders on it today. One of them is Naya Grill, in Pompano Beach. Farooj Abo Alabed, also live on Zayos, is on pace for $40k+ a year in commission not paid to a marketplace: its direct food sales after discounts from 10 Aug to 3 Oct 2026 (55 days), annualized at a 35% blended marketplace cost. More restaurants are live on Zayos and taking direct orders. Zayos is built by Zay Revenue Group, a Fort Lauderdale company, and we serve Tampa from South Florida rather than from an office in Hyde Park.
Yes. Restaurants in the Tampa Bay area take direct orders on Zayos today, among them Farooj Abo Alabed in Temple Terrace, Bella Roma NY Pizza in Tampa and Syrian Shawarma in Temple Terrace. We would rather tell you that than hand you a reference that does not exist.
Questions Tampa pizzeria owners ask.
Should a Tampa pizzeria drop the delivery apps entirely?
How is Zayos different from Slice for a pizzeria?
Can the menu handle half and half, well done, and a build your own?
What happens to online orders during a hurricane week?
Is $499 a month (Operator + Tablet) worth it if I only do 250 online orders?
How fast can a Tampa pizzeria be live on Zayos?
Do you have a Tampa pizzeria on the platform I can call?
Source for the prices and rates in this section: Slice pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
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