Utah orders for the whole table. Zayos does not charge you more for it.

Because more people sit down at once. Utah reports the largest average household size in the country in Census data, year after year, and it is also among the youngest states by median age. In a restaurant that arrives as a different order shape than a coastal city produces: fewer solo bowls, more family platters, more Sunday orders for six, more party trays for a ward activity or a birthday. A kitchen here can run a healthy business on a modest number of large tickets rather than a huge number of small ones.

Every dollar you add to the average ticket adds twenty five cents to what a marketplace takes, and adds nothing at all to a flat monthly plan.

The Wasatch Front stacks several distinct food economies into a narrow strip of ground. The west side neighborhoods of Glendale, Rose Park and Poplar Grove carry a deep Mexican and Salvadoran restaurant base. Salt Lake County has one of the largest Pacific Islander communities on the mainland, and Tongan and Samoan kitchens sell food built for a crowd by definition. Decades of refugee resettlement added Somali, Afghan, Bosnian, Burmese and Congolese kitchens. Sugar House, Millcreek and downtown carry the dinner trade, the Silicon Slopes corridor down toward Lehi carries weekday volume, and everything above the valley floor swings hard with ski season, the canyons and a January when the film festival crowd is in town.

None of that changes what the software has to do. The storefront lives on your own domain, family platters and trays get headcount pricing and their own lead times, the diner pays one flat fee they can see, and every order writes a name, phone, email and order history into a customer book you own. The marketplaces keep running for visitors, ingested through Otter onto the same kitchen tablet, so the line still watches one screen.