We checked 2,094 independent restaurants — across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade in Florida, and seven New York counties from Westchester to Suffolk — to see which ordering platform each one runs, read straight off their own websites. The pattern was the same in both states. Here is what we found, and what those platforms really cost.
One row per platform, counted across the 1,600 sites we could successfully check.
Published rates only, applied to $10,000 of online sales. Where a company does not publish its pricing, we say so — that is worth knowing too.
| Platform | You pay monthly | Cut of sales | Charged to your guest | Out of a $10k month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boom Online Ordering | $600 | 0% none | Nothing | $600 |
| DoorDash / Uber Eats | $0 | 15–30% | Service + delivery fees | $1,500–3,000 |
| Owner.com — Flat Rate | $499 | 0% | 5% order support fee | ~$999 |
| Owner.com — Flex | $249 | 5% | 5% order support fee | ~$1,249 |
| ChowNow | $199–399 | 0% | Varies | $199–399+ |
| Toast | POS-led, varies | 0% on its own ordering | Optional | Depends on hardware + plan |
| SWIPEBY | Unpublished | Unpublished | Unpublished | Unpublished |
Owner.com's own pricing page states a 5% order support fee charged to the customer on both plans. So “no restaurant fees” means no fee to the restaurant — the 5% does not disappear, it moves onto your diner's bill. On a $10,000 month that is about $500 taken out of the transaction, just not from your side of it.
That is the same move the delivery apps make. We think it is worth naming, because a fee your customer pays is still a fee attached to your name.
Orders land on a live board, tickets go straight to the kitchen, and the money shows up on your dashboard. No apps to install, nothing to refresh.
Real layouts, sample data — we don't put our customers' details on a marketing page.
If you need a native app in the App Store under your own name, Owner.com builds one and we do not — we build a fast mobile storefront instead. And if you already run Toast's POS, its ordering is already wired to your kitchen, which is worth something real.
Everything else on this page we will stand behind. You get a direct line to the people who built it, in West Palm Beach — not a ticket queue.
Guarapos Cuban Cuisine takes orders through this system every day. Open their storefront, put something in the cart, and see exactly what your customers would see.