Alternatives · Food deliveryGrubhub and Seamless alternatives in NYC
In New York, Grubhub and Seamless are the same platform, which means the same stacked-percentage cost. This page sets that against a flat per-order model.
Pricing sourced July 2026 · Pre-launch comparison
In short
NYC restaurants go looking for Grubhub and Seamless alternatives because the tiered commissions and processing fees together often reach 15% to 30% of the order. The alternative is a flat per-order fee: one fixed charge per order instead of stacked percentages.
Should you switch from Grubhub?
A flat $2 an order usually makes sense when:
- Your average order runs above about $7, where a 30% commission alone passes a flat $2, before the processing fee is even counted.
- You are tired of stacked charges (marketing, delivery, and roughly 3.05% + $0.30 processing) and want one number.
- You get large orders, where percentages take the most.
- You want a cost that does not move with the ticket or the plan tier.
- Honest exception: on tiny orders under about $7 the commission alone can be below $2, though the added processing fee narrows that gap.
The hard part of a tiered percentage model is that the real cost is tough to predict. Commission, processing, and any sponsored listings all move with the order total. Owners hunting for an alternative usually just want one number they can plan around.
A flat fee is that one number. Bobby is planned for New York as a flat $2 per food order, $1 to the restaurant and $1 to the driver, with processing included and no percentage layer that grows with sales.