Restaurant online ordering
in Fort Lauderdale.
Commission-free direct ordering for Las Olas, Flagler Village, and beachside Fort Lauderdale restaurants. Zay-OS runs your branded ordering site, ingests Uber Eats + DoorDash into one kitchen tablet, and hands you the customer — so you stop paying 30% to rent back your own regulars.
See the demo →Fort Lauderdale dining runs on two engines that pull in opposite directions. Along Las Olas Boulevard, the sit-down and upscale-casual crowd drives steady ticket sizes and loyal locals. A few blocks north in Flagler Village and the FAT Village arts district, a younger, walkable, delivery-native crowd orders to apartments and lofts. And along A1A and the beach, a constant churn of hotel guests and tourists defaults to whatever delivery app is already on their phone. That third bucket is where the commission bleed gets brutal — a visitor who orders once and never comes back still costs you 28-32% to the marketplace, and you never even learn their name.
That mix is exactly why Fort Lauderdale independents lose more to DoorDash and Uber Eats than the headline rate suggests. High beach-season volume means high commission dollars, and the customers driving it are the ones least likely to find your direct site on their own. Zay-OS flips that: QR codes on every receipt, delivery bag, and table tent steer diners to your own ordering site, your CRM list lets you bring them back with a two-cent text instead of a $12 delivery fee, and one-tap reorder makes the second order frictionless. You keep running the marketplaces for discovery — you just stop handing them your regulars.
We build it here, locally. Naya Grill (nayagrillfl.com) is customer #1, running its live direct-ordering storefront on Zay-OS today, and La Vie Mediterranean is on the platform as well. Both are independent Fort Lauderdale restaurants taking commission-free direct orders, owning their customer books, and ingesting Uber Eats + DoorDash + Grubhub into a single Otter kitchen tablet.
What changes the day you go direct
| On DoorDash / Uber Eats | On Zay-OS direct |
|---|---|
| 28-32% commission per order | Flat $2.99/order, paid by the diner |
| They own the customer data | You own name, phone, email, LTV |
| Pay again to remarket | Two-cent SMS to your own list |
| Separate tablet on the line | Same Otter tablet, one ticket flow |
See the full breakdown: Zay-OS vs DoorDash →
A busy single-location Fort Lauderdale restaurant saves about $48,000/yr. Mid-volume independents save $120,000+, and high-volume or multi-brand kitchens save $300,000+ per location per year — just by shifting ~25% of marketplace orders to direct and cutting 30% commission to ~3% processing. We run YOUR numbers on the demo.
Operator $499 / Operator + Marketplace $599 / Concierge $699 per month per location. No setup fee. A flat $2.99 per order is paid by the diner at checkout, so you keep 100% of food revenue and pay no commission.
How does online ordering work for a Fort Lauderdale restaurant? +
Zay-OS gives your Las Olas or Flagler Village restaurant its own branded ordering site on your own domain. Diners order direct, pay a flat $2.99 per-order fee, and the ticket lands on the same Otter tablet your kitchen already uses for Uber Eats and DoorDash. You keep 100% of food revenue and you own the customer — name, phone, email, lifetime value. We build the whole thing for you in 2-3 weeks, no setup fee.
Do Fort Lauderdale restaurants have to pay DoorDash 30%? +
Only on the orders you let DoorDash own. On Las Olas and along A1A, a huge share of demand is beach tourists and hotel guests who default to the delivery apps — and 28-32% of every one of those tickets goes to the marketplace. Zay-OS shifts your repeat diners to your own direct site (QR on every receipt and delivery bag, SMS + email to your list, one-tap reorder) so the commission drops to roughly 3% card processing. You still run the marketplaces for discovery; you just stop renting back your regulars.
Which Fort Lauderdale restaurants already use Zay-OS? +
Naya Grill (nayagrillfl.com) is customer #1 and runs its live direct-ordering storefront on Zay-OS. La Vie Mediterranean is also on the platform. Both are independent Fort Lauderdale restaurants taking direct orders, owning their customer book, and ingesting Uber Eats + DoorDash + Grubhub into one kitchen tablet via Otter.
Can Zay-OS handle multiple Fort Lauderdale locations? +
Yes. Run 2-25 locations of one brand, or multiple brands across Fort Lauderdale, from one admin login. Each location routes to its own Otter tablet and can have its own menu, its own Stripe Connect payout, and its own 86 list. Reporting rolls up across the city and filters per location. The Concierge tier covers up to 5 locations or brands flat at $699/mo.
How fast can a Fort Lauderdale restaurant go live? +
Two to three weeks, end to end, and we do the build for you. That includes the branded ordering site, kitchen tablet provisioning, Otter marketplace ingestion, POS connection (Toast, Lightspeed, Square, or Clover — one included), DAVO Florida sales-tax set-aside, and staff training. There is no setup fee and no long-term contract — month-to-month, cancel anytime, and your domain + customer list are always yours.
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