Compared Aug 28, 2026
GloriaFood alternatives
Eight places to move an online ordering system to, judged on the question a shutdown does not answer for you: after the move, who is taking money out of each order — and out of whose pocket?
Start with the part most of these lists bury. GloriaFood’s own home page carries this line: “GloriaFood has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups.” (Aug 28, 2026). If you are reading a page like this one, there is a fair chance you are not shopping — you are moving, and somebody else chose the timing. We are deliberately not printing an end date: the posts quoting one do not agree with each other, and being a month out is the difference between a calm migration and a Friday evening with no ordering page. Ask them, and get the answer in writing. Now the part a moving list should actually be judged on. The thing you are leaving was free to the kitchen — its own pricing page still lists “No commission per order” and “No monthly fee” (Aug 28, 2026) — which is exactly why so many kitchens were on it. Every replacement has to be paid for somehow, and there are only three places the money can come from: a subscription, a share of each order taken from you, or a fee added to the person ordering. The third is the one that rarely makes it into a comparison table, and it is the question to carry into every conversation below. Each row here carries one sentence that company published about itself, read on Aug 28, 2026 and linked at the foot, plus one line from us about who that sentence suits — rather than a rate card copied down in August and wrong by November. Row four is ours, and it is checked where every other row is: on the page linked at the foot.
What this page judges
- What the restaurant pays
- The subscription, the per-order fee, the setup charge and the hardware, added up over a year rather than compared one monthly figure at a time. A flat fee and a percentage cross over at a single volume, and on either side of it the cheaper one is obvious — which is why the honest answer to “which is cheapest” is a multiplication you do yourself, not a ranking anybody else can write for you.
- What the person ordering pays
- The column almost nobody publishes. A platform can take nothing from the restaurant and still add a percentage at checkout, paid by your customer, printed on a receipt with your name at the top rather than the platform’s. Whether that is wrong depends on your street — some owners deliberately take that trade to keep the printed menu price where it is and let the fee carry the service. What you should not do is find out after you have moved, so ask the one question that cannot be answered vaguely: on an order with a $40 subtotal, what exactly is my customer’s card charged, line by line, including anything called a service, support or convenience fee?
- A module, or a whole website
- An ordering system that lives on a website you supply is a different purchase from a website with ordering built into it, and on moving day that difference decides how much work you are in for. If your site was a page with an ordering widget dropped into it, the site survives and you swap the widget. If the ordering system was effectively your whole web presence, you are replacing two things and only shopping for one. Work out which of those you have before you compare a single price.
The eight, and what each one says it is selling
| Tool | Best for | In their words, and what we make of it |
|---|---|---|
| Square Online Ordering | A shop or restaurant already ringing sales through a Square register, that wants ordering back without adding another subscription | Its online ordering page says “All orders, whether placed online or in person, come through your Square Point of Sale” (Aug 28, 2026). Read that as the fit and the fence in one sentence: if the till in the shop is already this company’s, the menu, the orders and the payouts arrive in the same place. If it is not, you are choosing a payments relationship rather than an ordering page, and that is a much bigger decision than the one you came here to make. |
| UpMenu | One or two locations in Europe on a tight budget, needing a page that takes its own orders and nothing more elaborate than that | Its pricing page says “We offer flat-fee subscriptions instead of commission fees.” (Aug 28, 2026). Read that as the trade on offer: a predictable monthly number instead of a share of each order, which is the cheaper side of that line once your volume is steady and the dearer side while it is not. Count a month of your own orders before you decide which side you are on, and check on the page whether the figure is per location. |
| Menufy | A US takeout or pickup restaurant that would rather pay one flat number every month than ever work out what a percentage cost it | Its pricing page says “One flat monthly fee. We drive direct orders to your website and manage it all for you.” (Aug 28, 2026). Read the second half as carefully as the first — this is sold as a managed service, so what you are buying is somebody else running it rather than a dashboard you drive. Good if nobody in the building wants to own that job; wrong if you want to change the menu at nine on a Saturday without asking anyone. |
| Naratake | An independent restaurant, café or small kitchen replacing the website as well as the ordering — wanting ordering, table reservations and per-staff appointment slots in one site, and already holding, or willing to open, its own Stripe account | The odd shape on this list. Most of what is on it is an ordering system that lives on a site you bring; this is a working multi-page site — 40 industry starting points, 15 design styles, 111 components — with the ordering, the table reservations and the per-staff, per-time-slot appointments built into it rather than embedded from elsewhere. On the axis this page is sorted by: card payment on a published site runs through your own Stripe account, so the money goes from your customer to you without passing through us. We take no share of an order, and we cannot add a fee to one either — not as a policy, but because we are not in the payment path. The menu is typed in once, into a site that keeps it: the ordering, the table reservations and the per-staff appointments are the site rather than a widget embedded in it, so a price change happens in one place. Two things worth knowing up front. You open that Stripe account and paste both live keys, which is what keeps us out of that path. Ordering, bookings and card payment go live on a published site on Storefront Pro at $79/month or $758/year; Storefront at $49/month or $468/year is the plan that builds and previews them. Downloading the site source is on Storefront Pro as well. Ours is the row you check on our own pricing page, linked at the foot with the rest. |
| ChowNow | A US independent that genuinely wants an iOS and Android app under its own name, and can carry a four-figure annual bill to have one | Its pricing page says “ChowNow customers can take unlimited commission-free orders directly from their website, branded mobile app, our marketplace app, and discovery channels across the web with Profit Protector enabled.” (Aug 28, 2026). Read the last three words: the sentence has a condition on it, and conditions are where the money hides. Worth the reading time if you genuinely want an app under your own name — and worth remembering that the people who would install it are mostly the regulars you already have. |
| Flipdish | A takeaway or small chain in the UK, Ireland or continental Europe — especially one that wants a self-order kiosk standing in the shop | Its pricing page says “Integrate your orders from the Flipdish online ordering platform directly into your POS system.” (Aug 28, 2026). That sentence is the argument: the value is in the order not being retyped at the counter on a Friday night. If you want a self-order kiosk standing in the shop, get the hardware and installation quote in writing before you compare monthly figures — a physical object bolted down in your shop is the part a monthly number hides. |
| Slice | A US independent pizzeria — pizza only — that would rather pay by the order than by the month, and wants nothing added to the price a customer sees | Its FAQ says “Slice adds no additional fees to menu item prices.” (Aug 28, 2026). Read that as a company that chose to charge the kitchen rather than the customer, which is the whole axis this page is sorted around — and read it knowing this one is pizza only. Somebody still pays for the service, so take the per-order side off its pricing page and multiply it by your own order count before you set it against a flat monthly fee. |
| Owner.com | A restaurant with established delivery volume that wants somebody to take the whole move off its hands — and is willing to have the fee land on the person ordering | Its own pricing page says “On both plans, guests pay a 5% order support fee that covers fulfillment and customer service.” (Aug 28, 2026). On both plans is the operative phrase — this is not something an upgrade switches off. Whether that is wrong depends on your street: some owners deliberately take this trade to keep the printed menu price low and let the fee carry the service. What it costs you is the receipt, which carries your restaurant’s name above the line and not this company’s. |
Who this page is not for
If you run a delivery-first kitchen where most orders arrive through the marketplaces, a page of your own does not replace that channel — it sits beside it, and your real question is what share of those orders you can pull onto your own page, which is a marketing problem rather than a software one. If you are a US pizzeria, one row on this list is written for that trade and nothing else. If what you need is a self-order kiosk on the counter, or an app in the app stores, there is a row selling each — read their own sentences and go straight there. And if the ordering has to reach your POS, your kitchen printer or your driver dispatch, ask that question first and let it eliminate rows before price does — that integration is the thing you cannot bolt on afterwards. Now ours, which reads short. The ordering, the table reservations and the appointments by staff member and time slot are the site itself rather than a widget embedded in one, so the menu is typed once and a price change happens in one place. It rings on our own register too: turn ordering on and the back office carries one, so a ticket rung at the counter lands on the same board as an order placed on the web, in one database, with cash and change due, card-present through a Stripe Terminal reader on your own Stripe account, and gift cards once coupons are switched on. Card payment on a published site runs through that same Stripe account, which you open once and connect with both live keys, so the money goes from your customer to you and we take no share of an order. Ordering, bookings and card payment go live on Storefront Pro at $79/month or $758/year; Storefront at $49/month or $468/year is the plan that builds and previews them, so set our plans against somebody else’s on that line rather than cheapest against cheapest. And on the exact axis you have just been burned by: the thing worth holding any vendor to is the exit, not the promise. Storefront Pro includes downloading the site source, so the answer to “what do I keep” is a folder of Next.js code that builds and serves on a host of your own, whoever is still here in three years.
Questions people actually ask
GloriaFood is closing — how long have I got?
We are not going to print a date, and we would be careful with any page that does. On Aug 28, 2026 GloriaFood’s own site said the product “has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups”, and the end dates being quoted elsewhere do not agree with each other. Being a month out is the difference between a calm migration and a Friday evening with no ordering page, so ask them directly and get the answer in writing. Three things you can do today without knowing the date: export your menu, export your customer list if there is any way to get one, and check who actually owns the domain your ordering links point at. That last one decides whether the move is a DNS change or a reprint of every menu, sticker and flyer you own.
Is “0% commission for restaurants” the same as “no fees for my customers”?
No, and the gap between those two sentences is why this page is sorted the way it is. A platform can take nothing from the restaurant and still add a percentage at checkout that your customer pays. Two rows below say out loud which side of that they are on, in their own words: one tells you guests pay an order support fee on both of its plans, the other tells you nothing is added to menu item prices. Ours adds nothing because we are not in the payment path at all. For everybody else, ask the one question that cannot be answered vaguely: on an order with a $40 subtotal, what exactly is my customer’s card charged, line by line, including anything called a service, support or convenience fee?
How much does a 5% customer fee actually change?
On a $40 order it is $2 — small enough to sound like nothing, large enough to decide between your page and the app already open on their phone, because people compare two totals rather than two menus. There is a real argument on the other side. A fee at checkout lets you keep the prices you have printed on the wall and on every leaflet, instead of raising every dish by a few per cent to absorb the cost, and some owners would genuinely rather the charge be visible at the end than hidden in the middle. What you should not do is find out about it after you have moved. The question is not whether a service fee is immoral; it is whether you knew before your customer did, because they will ask you about it and not the platform.
I was paying nothing. Is a subscription worth it at all?
Do the multiplication before you read anybody’s opinion, ours included. A flat monthly fee and a percentage cross at one number: five per cent of $3,000 of online orders a month is $150, so at roughly that volume a flat $149 and a 5% cut cost the same, and every dollar above it makes the flat fee cheaper. Below it the percentage wins, and a subscription is genuinely the wrong answer for a kitchen taking eight online orders a week — that shop should be looking at the rows with no monthly platform fee, not at the four-figure ones. Two things people leave out of that sum. Card processing is charged on top almost everywhere, so it is rarely what separates two options. And the price of free is the thing you have just lived through: a product that owed you nothing, and then ended.
Do I need my own app in the app stores?
Probably not, and the tools that sell one are reasonably honest about what it involves. People install an app for a place they order from every week — the pizzeria, the coffee shop on the commute, the lunch counter by the office. For most independents the people who would install it are already regulars, and the ones you actually need to reach are not installing anything to buy dinner once. The detail worth noticing is that the app tends to be a line of its own on top of the subscription, with the store’s developer fee on top of that: not much money, but a useful reminder that an app is a thing you own and maintain rather than a feature you switch on. A page that opens instantly from a link, with your menu on it and a total that does not surprise anybody, beats an app nobody installed.
How do I avoid ending up here again in three years?
You cannot pick a vendor guaranteed to exist, and the product you are leaving is the proof of it. What you can do is buy on the exit rather than on the promise, and there are three questions in that order. Does the domain your ordering runs on belong to you, at a registrar in your name? Can you export your customer list, and have you pressed that button once to see what actually comes out of it? And is there any way to leave with the site itself rather than a screenshot of it? On the last one we can only answer for ourselves: Storefront Pro includes downloading the site source. That is not a guarantee we will still be here in three years. It is the reason it would matter less if we were not.
Where these numbers came from
Every claim above was read off the provider’s own page on Aug 28, 2026. Pages change without notice; if one of these is out of date, the linked page is the one to believe, not us.
If the ordering has to move, and the site with it
Naratake gives you a working multi-page site with ordering, table reservations and per-staff appointment slots built in, and card payment runs through your own Stripe account — we take no share of an order, and we cannot add a fee to one either. See which plan runs ordering and bookings on a published site — and what each one leaves out.