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Zayos for restaurants.

Published July 2026 · Updated July 26, 2026

Quick answer

Zayos is commission-free online ordering for independent restaurants. Your diners order on your own branded website, you keep 100% of the food revenue and 100% of the tips, and every order lands on the same kitchen tablet you already use for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Plans are $499, $599 or $699 per location per month, month to month, no setup fee. Most restaurants are live in under 2 weeks.

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What Zayos does, in one paragraph

A marketplace is an app like DoorDash, Uber Eats or Grubhub that lists your menu, takes the order and keeps a cut. Zayos gives you the other half: a fast ordering site on your own domain, your own customer list, loyalty and card payments, with no commission on food. The part owners assume will hurt is the kitchen, and that is the part we removed. Direct orders route into Otter, so a Zayos ticket looks like every other ticket your line already reads. No second screen. Nothing new to learn on a Friday night.

The money works like this. On a marketplace, a $40 order can lose $10 to $14 before the kitchen turns on a burner. On Zayos you keep 100% of the food revenue and 100% of the tips. The only per-order charge is a service fee the diner pays at checkout: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, 10% catering. You never pay it.

The four outcomes

What changes in your restaurant.

01

More direct orders

An ordering site on your own domain, fast on a phone. Every QR code, receipt, Instagram link and Google Business Profile button points at your site instead of an app.

02

Zero commission

Marketplaces charge 15% to 30% base commission, and 25% to 35% blended once delivery, promotion and processing fees stack. Zayos charges 0% on food. You keep 100% of food revenue and 100% of tips.

03

More repeat customers

On a marketplace the customer belongs to the app. On Zayos the name, phone, email and order history are yours. Loyalty and win-back messages run off that list.

04

One tablet for every channel

Direct orders route into Otter, the order aggregation service that already puts DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub on one screen. Your line reads one feed and nobody retypes an order.

Straight answer

Zayos is not right for every restaurant.

You have been sold to before. Both columns, so you can rule yourself out in thirty seconds instead of on a call.

A good fit if

  • You have regulars who would order direct if it were easy.
  • You pay a marketplace 15% to 30% base commission and it stings on every ticket.
  • You do 100+ online orders a week.
  • You run one location or fifty. Pricing is per location either way.
  • You do catering or party trays that a marketplace taxes hard.
  • You already run Otter, or run the delivery apps and want them on one screen.

Not a good fit if

  • You have almost no repeat customers and every order comes from marketplace discovery. Direct ordering pays off more slowly for you, because you have to build the habit before you can harvest it.
  • You just opened, with no customer list and no foot traffic. Get busy first. The apps are a fine way to get found while you are unknown.
  • You want to fire the marketplaces entirely. Most of our restaurants keep the apps for discovery and move their regulars to direct. That is the pattern that works.
  • You want a register replacement. Zayos is the ordering and customer layer. It sits next to your POS, the point of sale system you ring orders on.

If you have no repeat customers and rely entirely on marketplace discovery, direct ordering will take longer to pay off. That is a reason to keep the apps running while your own channel builds, not a reason to never start.

Onboarding

Your first two weeks on Zayos.

Live in under 2 weeks, first direct order usually inside week one. You spend about two hours of your own time across the whole build.

Days 1 to 3

Menu and brand go in

You send a menu, a logo and photos. We build the storefront in your colors, on your domain, with your modifiers, combos and hours. We do the data entry, not you.

Days 4 to 7

Payments, tax, tablet

Card payments go on. Sales tax gets set aside automatically through DAVO. Otter gets connected so direct tickets hit the tablet your line already reads. Most restaurants take their first direct order this week.

Week 2

Traffic points at you

QR codes on tables and receipts. Your Google Business Profile order button and your social links switched to your own site. Loyalty on. Then you watch every channel in one dashboard.

What it costs

Flat monthly price. No commission on food.

Per location, month to month, no setup fee, no contract. Cancel whenever you want.

Operator

$499
per location / month

Branded ordering site on your domain, loyalty, customer list, reporting, Otter routing.

Operator + Marketplace

$599
per location / month

Adds marketplace ingestion: DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders pulled onto the same tablet and into the same reporting.

Concierge

$699
per location / month

Adds up to 5 virtual brands per kitchen and hands-on account management.

The only per-order charge is paid by the diner: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, 10% catering. Compare that to 15% to 30% base marketplace commission, or 25% to 35% blended once delivery, promotion and processing fees stack. Detail on the pricing page, or run your own numbers in the commission calculator.

Who is running on Zayos right now

Naya Grill, in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach, is live and taking direct orders on Zayos today. It keeps $48k+ per year that used to go to commissions. Storefronts are built and ordering opens at launch for Shishka Lebanese Grill, La Vie Mediterranean, Yummy Grill, aura, Courtyard Cafe, Mr. Smoke across 13 locations, and Yalla Market.

We will not hand you a wall of testimonials from restaurants that do not exist. Instead, check the math yourself. At 3,000 to 12,000 orders a month, a restaurant keeps a modeled $48,000 to $300,000+ per location per year. Your number depends on your ticket average and your current commission rate, which is exactly what the free report calculates.

Keep reading

What is Zayos?

The definition, the spellings, who builds it.
How it works

Onboarding step by step, menu to first order.
Pricing

All three plans and what is included.
Otter integration

How every channel lands on one tablet.
Integrations

POS, payments, sales tax, delivery.
By restaurant type

Pizzerias, halal, Mediterranean, catering, trucks.
Commission-free guide

The playbook for moving regulars to direct.
Zayos vs DoorDash

Side by side on cost, data and control.

Questions owners actually ask.

What is Zayos and what does it do for my restaurant?
Zayos is commission-free online ordering for independent restaurants. You get an ordering website on your own domain, a customer list you own, loyalty, and one kitchen tablet that shows direct orders next to your DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders. You keep 100% of the food revenue and 100% of the tips on direct orders. Zayos is built and run by Zay Revenue Group in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
How much does Zayos cost per month?
Three plans, all per location per month, month to month with no contract and no setup fee: Operator at $499, Operator + Marketplace at $599, Concierge at $699. The only per-order charge is a service fee the diner pays at checkout: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, 10% catering. The restaurant never pays it.
Do I have to drop DoorDash and Uber Eats to use Zayos?
No, and most owners should not. Keep the apps for discovery, where a stranger finds you the first time. Use Zayos to move your regulars to direct, where the margin is. On the $599 plan the marketplace orders land on the same tablet and in the same reporting, so you can finally see both channels side by side.
Will my kitchen have to learn a new system?
No. Direct orders route through Otter, the order aggregation service that already puts every delivery app on one tablet. If you run Otter today, a Zayos ticket looks like every other ticket on that screen. If you do not run Otter, we set it up during onboarding.
How long until I am live and taking orders?
Most restaurants are live in under 2 weeks and take their first direct order within a week of signing up. Days 1 to 3 are the menu and brand build, days 4 to 7 are payments, sales tax and the kitchen tablet, and week 2 is pointing your QR codes, Google Business Profile and social links at your own site.
How much money would this actually save me?
It depends on your volume and your current commission rate, so start with your own numbers. Naya Grill in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach keeps $48k+ per year that used to go to commissions. Modeled at 3,000 to 12,000 orders a month, a restaurant keeps $48,000 to $300,000+ per location per year. The free report at grader.zay-os.com does the math on your real ticket average.
What if direct ordering is not right for my restaurant?
Then we will say so. If you have very few repeat customers and every order today comes from marketplace discovery, direct ordering pays off more slowly, because the habit has to be built before it can be harvested. Restaurants with an existing base of regulars see the fastest return.
Who is using Zayos today?
Naya Grill (Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach) is live and taking direct orders. Storefronts are built and ordering opens at launch for Shishka Lebanese Grill, La Vie Mediterranean, Yummy Grill, aura, Courtyard Cafe, Mr. Smoke across 13 locations, and Yalla Market. The team holds a 5.0 rating from 12 reviews on its "ZayOS-Zayrev" Google Business Profile.

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