Restolabs

Restolabs provides restaurant online ordering with website design and branding services, published alongside a free calculator estimating savings against third-party delivery commissions.

What makes that calculation worth doing is the size of the deduction. Marketplace commission typically runs between fifteen and thirty percent of the order, and it is taken before the restaurant sees anything, so the operator experiences it as a smaller payout rather than as a fee they are paying.

Publishing a calculator that quantifies this is a sensible sales approach and a genuinely useful tool for an operator, because most restaurants do not know the figure. Commission is deducted before the payout arrives, so what the operator sees is a settlement amount rather than a fee, and the annual total is rarely calculated.

Working it out changes the conversation. A restaurant doing modest delivery volume may be paying tens of thousands a year in commission, and seeing that against a subscription makes the decision arithmetic rather than instinct.

The honest counterweight is that the saving is only realised on orders that would have happened anyway. A customer who found the restaurant on a marketplace and would never have found it otherwise is not a saved commission; they are an acquired customer who cost a commission. The calculation that matters is what proportion of marketplace orders come from existing customers who could have ordered direct, and that proportion varies enormously by restaurant.

Including website design and branding as services reflects that independent restaurants frequently have no website worth ordering from, and ordering software attached to a poor site produces very little.

Pricing is published from $29 alongside a contact route for larger requirements.